Snowflakes Are Dancing

Snowflakes Are Dancing
Studio album by
Isao Tomita
ReleasedApril 12, 1974
RecordedJanuary 1973–March 1974
GenreAmbient, avant-garde, classical, proto-synthpop, space music[1]
Length41:33 (51:51 in the 2000 CD release)
LabelRCA Red Seal
ProducerPlasma Music
Isao Tomita chronology
Switched On Rock
(1972) 		Snowflakes Are Dancing
(1974) 		Pictures at an Exhibition
(1975)

Snowflakes Are Dancing is the second studio album by Japanese musician Isao Tomita, recorded in 1973–1974 and first released by RCA Records on the Red Seal label as a Quadradisc in April 1974.[2] The album consists entirely of Tomita's arrangements of Claude Debussy's "tone paintings", performed by Tomita on a Moog synthesizer and a Mellotron. It entered the top 50 charts in the United States, where it was nominated for four Grammy Awards in 1975, including best classical album of the year, and it was NARM's best-selling classical album of the year.[2][3] In Canada, it reached number 57 in the RPM Magazine Top Albums chart.[4]

  1. ^ "Simon Reynolds tracks the history of electronica's Seventies pioneers". The Guardian. 21 April 2007. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b Billboard, August 16, 1975, p. 41
  3. ^ "Isao Tomita". Billboard. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
  4. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums (51-100)" (PDF). Collectionscanada.gc.ca. December 14, 1974. Retrieved March 27, 2022.