| 1. Mirage |
| 2. Flight |
| 3. Aurora |
| 4. Fire |
| 5. Aqua |
| 6. Spring of Youth |
| 7. Simmering Horizon |
| 8. Oasis |
| 9. Pilgrimage |
The World of Kitaro,Kitaro,Domo Records,Contemporary Instrumental,Ethnic Fusion,New Age / Meditation,Pop,Progressive Electronic
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Silk Road 1
Kitaro Manufacturer: New World Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006CTFW Release Date: 2002-07-30 |
Tracks:
- Silk Road (Shichu No Michi)
- Bell Tower (Shoro)
- Heavenly Father (Tenchi Sohzo Shin)
- The Great River (Harukanaru Taiga)
- The Great Wall Of China (Chohjo)
- Flying Celestial Nymphs (Hiten)
- Silk Road Fantasy (Silk Road Genso)
- Shimmering Light (Kikari To Kage)
- Westbound (Nishi Ni Mukkatte)
- Time (Toki No Nagare)
- Bodhisattva (Bosatsu)
- Everlasting Road (Towa No Michi)
Customer Reviews:
Transcendant.......2006-02-09
Melodic Bliss.......2005-09-12
The tracks on "Silk Road" were culled from the soundtrack of a Japanese documentary series that began in 1980 and ran for 5 years, and are a seamless stream of melody, with a mellow loveliness and a liquid lyrical mood that does not change from track to track. This unchanging aspect of the recording makes it a superb CD for meditation or study, or just to relax with and allow the music flow through one's mind and soul.
Kitaro built his own synthesizer in the '70s, and though he had many devoted fans in America, the recordings they bought were imports, until 1986. His US recordings, starting with "Tenku", often included live musicians, and brought him a Grammy nomination and huge world-wide success, but if you want to hear the "real Kitaro", the music that started a new genre in the music industry, listen to "Silk Road." Also highly recommended are my favorite, "Ki," and a fabulous compilation of his best work, the 2-disc "The Best of Ten Years." Total playing time for "Silk Road" is 42'05.
I place this album with the best from Vangelis.......2003-11-02
Absolutely recommend this album if you like instrumentals.
Kitaro's Silk Road is a Good Choice!!.......2003-03-10
A Masterpiece.......2003-01-05
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Silk Road 2
Kitaro Manufacturer: New World Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006CTF5 Release Date: 2002-07-30 |
Tracks:
- Peace
- Takla Makan Desert
- Eternal Spring
- Silver Moon
- Magical Sand Dance
- Year 40080
- Time Travel
- Reincarnation
- Dawning
- Tienshan
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Loved first one , love this one too ........2002-11-28
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The Best of Kitaro, Vol. 1
Kitaro Manufacturer: New World Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000075A24 Release Date: 2002-10-29 |
Tracks:
- Morning Prayer
- Eternal Spring
- Oasis
- Westbound
- Silver Moon
- Four Changes
- Tunhuang
- Sacred Journey II
- Revelation
- Silk Road Fantasy
- Shimmering Light
- Everlasting Road
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Kitaro's World of Music Featuring Yu-Xiao Guang
Kitaro Manufacturer: Domo Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000005WNG Release Date: 1996-04-23 |
Tracks:
- 40800
- Caravansary
- Taklamakan Desert
- Mandala
- Flying Celestial Nymphs
- Silk Road
- Peace
- Linden
- Everlasting Road
Album Description
Produced by Kitaro, the World of Music features the talents of Chinese Hulquin (violin) player, Yu-Xiao Guang, with rearrangements of Kitaro's most popular works including `Silk Road', `Carvansary', `Linden' and `Everlasting Road'.Customer Reviews:
Yanni with a Hulquin.......2006-06-11
These are predictable somnambulant melodies resembling Yanni on a Chinese Hulquin colliding with studio sounds.
This disk is part of a flood of commercial, modern Asian new age offerings washing onto American shores designed to fall more gently on Westernized ears by creating a Chinoisery pastiche.
The enhanced sounds and cliche audio effects, attempt to break the monotony of this commercial, repetitious and torturous offering.
This is not Yo-Yo Ma.
Atmospheric Far Eastern sounds.......2002-10-20
spacey,etheral stuff that creates a mood that's
haunting and other worldly.Simplistic yet seductive,
it conjures a hypnotic,dreamy feel.It's got a calming
effect that's slightly melancholy at times but very
romantic.I feel like I'm in the ancient orient every
time I listen to it.It's powerful,heady music.
Perhaps better than real Kitaro.......2000-06-24
Thanks for making this album possible.
Beauty in its purest form.......2000-02-24
richly soothing.......2000-02-20
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Full Moon Story
Kitaro Manufacturer: Geffen Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000DT30 Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- Xuripa
- Aurora
- Hikari No Mai
- Fuji
- Full Moon
- Resurrection
- From Astral
- Heavenly Illusion
- New Lights
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Ki
Kitaro Manufacturer: Domo Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000005WOC Release Date: 1996-11-05 |
Tracks:
- Revelation
- Stream Of Being
- Kaleidoscope
- Oasis
- Sun
- Endless Water
- Tree
- Cloud In The Sky
Customer Reviews:
My first try at Kitaro.......2005-09-21
Kitaro's discography is awfully confusing, because prior to 1985, none of his albums received an American release. Many titles had Japanese names and later versions had English names (like Ten Kai became Astral Voyage). Ki was released after the three Silk Road series of albums (soundtracks to a Japanese TV documentary), originally released in 1981 on Canyon Records, perhaps the better known version was the German version of Kuckuck, from 1982.
Usually I don't go for New Age music, but this is actually quite good for what it is. Mellow, spacy electronic music, I am really surprised to see Kitaro was still using Mellotron as late as 1981, when groups like Tangerine Dream had already gotten rid of theirs before the end of the '70s. The Minimoog is quite dominant, while also including newer polyphonic synths like the Prophet 5. A lot of this music makes me think of a Japanese garden complete with cherry blossoms and stone lanterns, but then that's no surprise given Kitaro himself is Japanese. Most of this tends to the mellow end of electronic music, while the last two cuts bear more than a passing resemblance to Pink Floyd (because of the use of drums and guitars). It's also interesting to note that his old prog rock band, Far East Family Band had been frequently compared to Pink Floyd.
Perhaps the thing that most bothers me about this album is why did he include two songs from his 1979 album Oasis? On this album he included the title track and "Eternal Spring" (renamed "Endless Water" here), and these don't appear to be re-recordings either, perhaps he didn't have enough new material so he included some earlier stuff too, probably to drive home a point that he hadn't changed much stylistically in the course of two years and three albums (the three Silk Road albums that came between Oasis and Ki).
I have since acquired several of his albums, all early ones, and though I seem to prefer albums like Oasis or In Person, this is still recommended if you like this kind of music.
A Glorious Album.......2004-08-18
kitaro ki.......2004-04-09
my first and still my favorite.......2002-07-19
Of all my many Kitaro CDs, "Ki" is still my favorite...the one I have 2 copies of, as it's one of the 8 CDs I keep in the car.
I'm one of those that tend to prefer the "pre-U.S.A." Kitaro. Of his recordings, and sadly many are out of print at this time, "Oasis" (track # 4 on "Ki" is same glorious track # 10 theme of the "Oasis" CD), "Asia", "Full Moon Story", and "Silk Road Vol. 1" fill out the top 5 choices for me, and "Ki" of all of them succeeds the best in being a continuous flow of exquisite, soul-filling melody.
The enclosed leaflet says that on this recording Kitaro plays Korg, Roland, Yamaha, Prophet and Mini Moog synthesizers, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, mellotron, drums, percussion, tabla, and Irish harp. The remastered sound is good, and total time 44'12.
Kitaro was a pioneer...it's thought that he was the first to create "New Age" as a musical category. He has had many imitators, but few equals. If you want one of his finest CDs, "Ki" is one to consider buying.
Music for humankind and gods alike..........2001-11-27
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Saihou: Journey of Silk Road
Kitaro Manufacturer: 3d ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000228UN0 Release Date: 2004-06-28 |
Tracks:
- Auspicious Omen
- Halo
- Melancholy
- Embayment
- Great Voyage
- Sacred Mountain
- Delight
- In Peace
- Utopia
- Endless Journey
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SAIHOU:JOURNEY OF SILK ROAD.......2007-07-14
Re-release.......2004-07-17
It was also released in the U.S. as "Towards The West".
The synthesizers-based album contains soft and charming melodies, in the vein of the style of music Kitaro was making back then... if, like me, you thoroughly enjoyed albums like "Oasis" and "Ten-Jiku", you'll definitely want to grab this.
Strangely enough, the tracks on this record have rarely made an appearance on any of his "best of" albums, which is truly a shame...
But bear in mind that this is NOT a new album; it's more like a 20th Anniversary re-issue.
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Ki
Kitaro Manufacturer: Pony Canyon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006G8VY Release Date: 2002-09-30 |
Tracks:
- Japanese
Customer Reviews:
Music to relax by.......2007-04-09
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Tun Huang (Silk Road 3)
Kitaro Manufacturer: Kuck Kuck Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000008HDJ Release Date: 1992-11-03 |
Tracks:
- Lord Of The Wind
- Fata Morgana
- Sacred Journey 1
- Lord Of The Sand
- Tunhuang
- Free Flight
- Mandala
- Tao
- Sacred Journey II
Customer Reviews:
An album of fragile beauty.......2006-07-02
As a fan of 1970s electronica and progressive rock, I was only vaguely familiar with Kitaro's work in the Far East Family Band, and even less familiar with his solo work: everything that I had read mentioned New Age this or New Age that. Only brief mention of Kitaro had been made in the prog circles, and upon consulting the Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Rock found that they had nothing to say about his solo work whatsoever apart from providing a discography and mentioning him only briefly in a huge section on the Far East Family Band. To further complicate matters, I have personally found three different release dates for this album (1980, 1981, and 1985) and the rest of his discography is equally confusing. As such, I entered into my first experience with the music of Kitaro blindly....more or less.
The instrumentation on this album is heavy on the analog synths and the dreamy, soft soundscapes that would not be out of place on a Tangerine Dream or (especially) Vangelis album from 1977 - 1979 are everywhere on Tun Huang (aka Silk Road 3). I would also throw 1975 Pink Floyd in there too, but that might be stretching it a bit...but not much I might add. The analog synthesizers used by Kitaro include instruments by Roland, Prophet (Prophet V), and Moog (mostly mini-moog), along with the mellotron - everything sounds incredibly warm and organic. Kitaro is also quite the multi-instrumentalist and plays a full drum kit and percussion on a few tracks, along with the sitar (on Lord of the Sand only), tabra, acoustic guitar, chanting bell, and wind chime. Joining Kitaro on this album is violinist Yasuo Kojima - he contributes some excellent playing.
It is however (as it should be), the music that has me so excited. It is richly textured, contemplative, deeply haunting and sad at times, exhilarating, sweeping - you get the idea. Musically, there is far, far too much going on in this recording to simply lump it with the static and motionless approach of ambient music or the homogenized mood pieces that characterize much of current New Age music. Harmonies are used to good effect, there is melodic counterpoint and dynamic range along with shifts in rhythm, not to mention variation in timbre. The pieces all flow together in one song-cycle suite which adds a bit of drama to the overall work, although there is a slight break between Tun Huang and Free Flight. All in all, this was a very nice way to draw the Silk Road trilogy to a close.
Well, stumbling upon this Kitaro album completely made my day and it is very highly recommended to electronica fans and open-minded proggers. For those folks that liked this album, you may also like Albedo 0.39 (Vangelis, 1976), Opera Sauvage (Vangelis, 1979), Force Majeure (Tangerine Dream, 1979), and Tangram (Tangerine Dream, 1980).
Kitaro's Best Studio Album.......2005-05-11
Kitaro's Best... Bar None.......2004-10-30
Excellent.......2003-03-22
Some of the best driving music.......2002-04-17
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In Person
Kitaro Manufacturer: Domo Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000005WO8 Release Date: 1996-11-05 |
Tracks:
- Prologue
- Eternal Spring
- Westbound
- Silver Moon
- Peace
- Bell Tower
- Morning Prayer
- Tienshan
- Four Changes
- Magical Sand Dancing
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful live perfomance by this New Age pioneer.......2005-11-16
Perhaps the biggest surprise in regards to Kitaro was he still had the sense to use Mellotron in the early 1980s when other electronic and prog rock artists (like Tangerine Dream, The Moody Blues, Genesis) had pretty much given up on the tron by the end of the '70s.
Also to let you know In Person Digital, although a live album, did not feature any audience cheers between cuts, I have no idea if they were edited out, but I am willing to believe so (Tim Blake, ex-Gong member, also recorded an album of electronic music live called Crystal Machine and it too had the audience cheers removed).
Although I am not a fan of New Age, tending to go for the more progressive end of electronic music (like Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Jean Michel Jarre), Kitaro at least did an excellent job at New Age and this album is pack with some really pleasant music, and if you enjoy Kitaro make sure you get a copy of this album.
This started It all...........1999-10-09
Sublime mind-music from a New Age pioneer.......1998-12-17
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