Artist: Kitaro
Genre(s):
New Age
Miscellaneous
Other
Rock: Electronic
Electronic
Progressive
Discography:
Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai Volume 3
Year: 2007
Tracks: 8
Spiritual Garden
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Sacred Journey Of Ku-Kai Volume 2
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Sacred Journey Of Ku-Kai Vol. 2
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Live In Singapore
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai Vol. 1
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Sacred Journey Of Ku-kai
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
The Soong Sisters
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
Mizuniinorite
Year: 2002
Tracks: 7
Daylight, Moonlight: Live in Yakushiji
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Daylight, Moonlight Live In Yakushiji CD2
Year: 2002
Tracks: 6
Daylight, Moonlight Live In Yakushiji CD1
Year: 2002
Tracks: 6
Asian Cafe
Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
An Enchanted Evening
Year: 2002
Tracks: 8
Ancient Journey (Disc 2)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Ancient Journey (Disc 1)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
Ancient Journey CD1
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
Ancient Journey CD1
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Ancient
Year: 2001
Tracks: 15
The Best Of Kitaro
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Golden Fund
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Thinking Of You
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Shikoku 88 Temples
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Noah's Ark
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
From The Full Moon Story
Year: 1998
Tracks: 9
Cirque Ingenieux
Year: 1997
Tracks: 15
Best Of Kitaro, Vol. 1
Year: 1997
Tracks: 12
World Of Music
Year: 1996
Tracks: 9
World of Kitaro
Year: 1996
Tracks: 9
Peace On Earth
Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
Kitaro's World Of Music 2 (Nawang Khechog)
Year: 1996
Tracks: 8
Kitaro's World Of Music (Yu-Xiao Guang)
Year: 1996
Tracks: 9
Kitaro's World Of Music (Yu-Xi
Year: 1996
Tracks: 9
Mandala
Year: 1995
Tracks: 8
Tokusen II (Cd 2)
Year: 1994
Tracks: 7
Tokusen II (Cd 1)
Year: 1994
Tracks: 9
Heaven and Earth
Year: 1993
Tracks: 17
Endless Journey
Year: 1993
Tracks: 10
Dream
Year: 1992
Tracks: 10
Live In America
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Kojiki
Year: 1990
Tracks: 7
Lady Of Dreams
Year: 1989
Tracks: 9
Ten Years
Year: 1988
Tracks: 13
The Light Of The Spirit
Year: 1987
Tracks: 8
The Best of Kitaro Vol.1
Year: 1987
Tracks: 12
Towards The West
Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
Toward The West
Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
Tenku
Year: 1986
Tracks: 8
Silver Cloud
Year: 1986
Tracks: 8
Millenia
Year: 1985
Tracks: 9
Asia
Year: 1984
Tracks: 9
Silk Road Suite
Year: 1983
Tracks: 14
Silk Road Iv (India)
Year: 1983
Tracks: 8
India
Year: 1983
Tracks: 8
Healing Forest
Year: 1983
Tracks: 14
Millennia
Year: 1982
Tracks: 9
Silk Road, Vol 1
Year: 1981
Tracks: 19
Silk Road Iii (Tunhuang)
Year: 1981
Tracks: 9
Tun Huang
Year: 1980
Tracks: 9
Silk Road Ii
Year: 1980
Tracks: 10
Silk Road
Year: 1980
Tracks: 12
In Person Digital
Year: 1980
Tracks: 10
Oasis
Year: 1979
Tracks: 10
Ki
Year: 1979
Tracks: 8
Full Moon Story
Year: 1979
Tracks: 9
Astral Voyage
Year: 1978
Tracks: 10
Mystic Legend (limited edition)
Year:
Tracks: 14
Kitaro World Vol. 10 Heart Beat
Year:
Tracks: 8
Kitaro World Vol. 09 Galactic Flight
Year:
Tracks: 10
Kitaro World Vol. 08 Divine Spirits
Year:
Tracks: 9
Kitaro World Vol. 07 Fairy Stories
Year:
Tracks: 10
Kitaro World Vol. 06 Breezing Universe
Year:
Tracks: 9
Kitaro World Vol. 05 Holy Vibration
Year:
Tracks: 8
Kitaro World Vol. 05 Holy Vibration
Year:
Tracks: 8
Kitaro World Vol. 04 Eternal Trip
Year:
Tracks: 10
Kitaro World Vol. 03 Faraway Land
Year:
Tracks: 9
Kitaro World Vol. 02 Silent Praying
Year:
Tracks: 9
Kitaro World Vol. 01 Silkroad Legend
Year:
Tracks: 11
Kitaro's style is the paradigm of the contemplative, highly melodious synthesizer music often associated with the new-age movement. Interestingly enough, this notable Japanese composer taught himself to play electric guitar in senior high schooltime -- divine by the R&B music of Otis Redding. In the early '70s, Kitaro formed the Far East Family Band, which released deuce albums of progressive rock. In 1972, however, he met the forward-looking German synthesizer Klaus Schulze during a tripper to Europe. Kitaro was hooklike. He built his starting time synthesizer and began experimenting with all kinds of unusual sounds. His first gear solo album, Stellar Voyage, appeared in 1978 and cursorily gained a cult following. Two days later, he produced the first base of several soundtracks for Silk Road, a Japanese tv set documental series that ran for five-spot days. Several albums of music from Silk Road were released to a growing international contingent of fans world Health Organization admired his combination of profuse, imperial textures and gentle, almost naive, melodies. Kitaro, however, was unruffled considered an underground artist in America until he gestural with Geffen Records in 1986, which re-released septet of his before albums and gave him the reenforcement to extend his telescope in many slipway. For example, later old age of creating albums in the privacy of his home studio apartment cheeseparing Japan's Mt. Fuji, Kitaro produced his 1987 release, The Light of the Spirit, with the aid of Mickey Hart. The record album featured an regalia of American musicians and was nominative for a Grammy Award in the Best New-Age Performance family. That same twelvemonth, Kitaro also made his first live tour of North America and sold deuce one thousand thousand albums in the U.S. alone. Kitaro's flair had changed as substantially, becoming more theatrical and self-assertive while retaining a certain level of artlessness and whiteness. His more than recent recordings besides bear witness a renewed interest in the rock music and pop elements that originally attracted him to music in the late '60s; in 1998, he too released the soundtrack to Corrie Ingenieux, a production bound for the Broadway stage. Thought of You followed a yr later; Ancient appeared in fountain 2001. It was well received, leading to a sequel of sorts in the like-minded Ancient Journey in 2002. His contributions on the soundtrack to the controversial Chinese dramatic play The Soong Sisters came tabu the same year, as did a live album and DVD.
