There is one very big influence on my electronic musical compositions for One Mind Live: Isao Tomita. In the 1970’s I was knocked out by his breakthrough LP called Snowflakes are Falling : “Virtuoso Electronic Performances of Debussy’s Tone Paintings”. Tomita said that his big influence was western classical music: “I thought I was listening to music from outer space,” but for this wide-eared Anglo Celtic kid of 15, when I heard his Debussy arrangements I was transported back to a childhood filled to the brim with Japanese aesthetics (loads of art books at home) and of course Japanese cartoons. Lots of Japanese cartoons. (It is only now, as I read about Tomita’s death in 2016 that he composed the theme for Kimba the White Lion!) So Tomita was always there in my life and as far as I was concerned he was from outer space. His work opened up a life-long love affair with electronic music especially Tangerine Dream, Eno and Stockhausen. Somehow, such is the mash-up of my mind, all these confluences have produced Blue Lotus, which sounds nothing like Debussy, but could be, with your eyes closed, a Japanese garden in the snow glimmering with layered referencesBlue Lotus (After Tomita) by Stephen Fearnley