Artist:  Isao Tomita

Title:  The Bermuda Triangle

Date:  1979

Label:  RCA Red Seal ARL1-2885

Art Direction:  J.J. Stelmach

Cover Illustration: Don Punchatz

Notes:  Recorded using a Roland Model MC-8 computer Tomita brings us sonic science fiction this time around. According to the liner notes the album was recorded onto five tracks. Ideally their should be the typical rectangle arrangement of the first four speakes with an additional speaked suspended over the center to create a "sonic pyramid". Lofty concepts indeed, but through my standard two channel stereo amp this record sounds just fine. the cover art is fantastic in nature and the LP is pressed on colored vinyl as an added treat. And the cover also has this message for us from the man himself, "Each side of this record contains coded data in the form of certain sound effects. The message can be recovered if the electrical signal from the record is interfaced with the input of a micro computer programmed to the TARBEL System". There you have it, now I wonder if anyone has actually processed this message?

Line Up:

Isao Tomita - Computer and synthesizers

Track Listing

Side 1

A Space Ship Lands Emitting Silvery Light
Electromagnetic Waves Descend
A World of Different Dimensions
The Giant Pyramid and Its Ancient People
Venus in a Space Uniform Shining in Fluorescent Light
Space Children in the Underground Kingdom Called Agharta
The Earth - A Hollow Vessel

Side 2

The Song of Venus
Dawn Over the Triangle and Mysterious Electric Waves
The Dazzling Cylinder That Crashed in Tunguska, Siberia
The Harp of the Ancient People With Songs of Venus and Space Children
Visionary Flight to the 1448 Nebular Group of the Bootes