About

— The Analog Vault // Essential Listening —

A distinctive album in Susumu Yokota's discography being primarily composed of samples from classical compositions, accompanied by a gorgeous piece of album cover art that extracts a detail from the beautiful 1896 painting Hylas and the Nymphs by John William Waterhouse – the album cleverly samples various classical tracks including familiar classical pieces by Debussy, Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Saint-Saëns, alongside modern compositions by John Cage and Meredith Monk.

Yokota’s swooning 2004 album is a gorgeous tapestry that’s as beautiful as it is idiosyncratic. Using bits and pieces of orchestral inspirations as thread, Symbol weaves patterns that straddle somewhere between electronic and ambient in its austere design - the album emerges a spellbindingly successful collage, one that’s soothing in texture and rich with understated emotion. — The Analog Vault

↓
Label: P-Vine Records
Format: Vinyl, LP, Remastered, Limited Edition
Country: Japan
Reissued: 2021 / Original: 2004
Genre: Electronic, Classical
Style: Modern Classical, Downtempo, Ambient

File under: Japanese Electronic
⦿