On Mandala, his first record for Domo, Kitaro attempts to craft a new age-influenced rock opera with classical underpinnings. Familiar elements, such as the spacy...
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Kitaro is one of the most celebrated new age performers of all time. The Best of Ten Years (1976-1986) is a collection of deep and dramatic symphonic synthesizer classics...
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Choosing a best-of collection for Kitaro must be a difficult task. Everything he touches turns to gold. Best of Kitaro, Vol. 2 is a collection of pieces from his releases of...
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Inspired by Kitaro's visit to Japan, where he attended the "Onbashira" festival, Gaia -- the title roughly translates to "Goddess of the Earth" -- is filled with exotic,...
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Recorded during his supporting tour for Mandala, An Enchanted Evening draws heavily on that album and his score for Oliver Stone's failed Vietnam epic Heaven and Earth, with...
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Kitaro's music is fluid and harmonic, as he blends smooth electronic lines with influences from traditional Japanese music, rock, and the romantic Western tradition. Silk...
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Even though Peace on Earth is Kitaro's first holiday album, it won't offer any surprises to longtime fans of the musician -- it's very similar in style to all of his...
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Sensitively woven, tranquil textures of sound wash through the mind of the listener on this album from sound master Kitaro. The instrumentation includes synthesizers, slide...
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Two giants in contemporary music have joined forces to create one of the most awe-inspiring albums of the '90s. Kitaro has taken his signature style into a new dimension of...
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Kitaro's already dramatic music is given even greater force when played before a live audience, as this 1990 show from Atlanta's Fox Theatre demonstrates. ~ William...
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Kitaro's synthesizer-based compositions are extended aural landscapes full of dramatic peaks of intensity and valleys of emotional calm. He is fond of loud, tympani-like...
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It can be easy to dismiss a Kitaro album as more "new age fluff." Indeed, many reviewers have done so, thereby depriving their readers of an honest appraisal and an...
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This double album, produced in Germany, features orchestral passages from the Japanese television Silk Road documentary. All of the compositions were written by Kitaro and...
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This album takes the listener beyond the clouds and into a finely crafted space journey. Kitaro's creative use of synthesizer is well-known, and the introduction of 12...
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Tunhuang brings Kitaro's Silk Road trilogy to a shimmering, peaceful close, as it contains some of the most provocative music in the trilogy. ~ Rodney Batdorf, All Music...
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Thinking of You is one of the most beautiful CDs of all time, certainly in the new age community. It is by Kitaro, whose name means -- fittingly -- "a man of love." These...
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Cirque Ingenieux was the first Broadway score that Kitaro made, and it's one of his most ambitious projects. The play is about a young girl who falls in love with a circus...
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"Ancient" is only a couple letters away from "ambient." It is no small coincidence, then, that Ancient is Kitaro's most ambient album. It is the soundtrack to a documentary...
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New age music and ancient shrines seem to work well together, as evidenced by top-selling concert CDs and videos (now DVDs) by Keiko Matsui and Yanni over the years....
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Although the general impression of Kitaro's music is that it consists almost entirely of undifferentiated space rock synth noodling, the truth is actually a bit more...
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Kitaro's masterwork remains this two-record score for a Japanese TV series. His most ambitious themes and involved playing are found here. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music...
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Kitaro's double-disc An Ancient Journey is collection of gentle, ethereal compositions utilizing his unique style of performance. Blending traditional Japanese instruments...
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Kitaro's score for The Soong Sisters, the story of three sisters who grew up in pre-communist China, were educated in America, and ultimately married some of China's most...
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