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by Kitaro
*****
Kitaro's first album was released in 1975.
His music helped establish and define the New Age genre as
we know it today. In 1980, I discovered Kitaro's album Silk
Road 1 & 2. It was a revelation. It was the music
I had been looking for all my life and didn't realize it until
I heard it. The latest release puts Kitaro's number of albums
at close to 50! Another amazing thing is that the music of
the Silk Road album still holds up after all this time.
At present, it is being digitally remastered for release as
a CD. Watch for it. With the release of Daylight, Moonlight,
which is a two-CD set, Kitaro revisits the musical themes
of Silk Road in a live concert at the Yakushiji Temple
in Nara, Japan. This is the tomb of the seventh-century monk,
Genjo Sanzo, who walked the Silk Road to bring Buddhism to
China and Japan. On this album, Kitaro uses a combination
of traditional Oriental instruments and current synthesizer
technology to create a fusion that transcends the best of
both. Daylight, Moonlight is a feast for the ear, the
heart and the spirit. It is exotic, dramatic, comforting and
soulfully nourishing. Kitaro has a very distinctive musical
signature. One can hear a song from any of his albums and
recognize it as a Kitaro. Now, the not so good news about
that is that sometimes his music starts to sound the same.
It's like too much of a good thing stops being a good thing.
Even so, Daylight, Moonlight is the best of the best.
If you don't get this album or at least one of Kitaro's other
albums, you may pass through this epoch culturally, and perhaps
even spiritually, deprived. This CD can be ordered directly
from Domo Musical Group, 11340 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 270,
Los Angles, CA 90064.
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