// Essential Listening

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

Yokotas swooning 2004 album is a gorgeous tapestry thats 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 inits austere design – the album emerges a spellbindingly successful collage, one thats soothingin texture and rich with understated emotion.

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