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Kitarō: Kojiki

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Label: Domo Records
Released: 1990
Time:
 46:16
Category: New Age
Producer(s): Kitarō
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.domomusicgroup.com/kitaro/
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Purchase date: 2015
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Hajimari (Kitarō) - 3:35
[2] Sozo (Kitarō) - 5:34
[3] Koi (Kitarō) - 6:29
[4] Orochi (Kitarō) - 7:10
[5] Nageki (Kitarō) - 5:44
[6] Matsuri (Kitarō) - 8:59
[7] Reimei (Kitarō) - 8:36

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Kitarō - Various Instruments, Arrangements, Producer

Hiroshi Araki - Guitar
Yasuo Ogata - Keyboards
Kohhachi Itoh - Electric Bass
Syoji Fujii - Drums
Hideo Funamoto - Timpani
Steven Kindler - Violin

Skywalker Symphony Strings - Orchestra
Greg Sudmeier - Conductor
Jeremy Cohen - Concertmaster
Nathan Rubin - Concertmaster

Reijiro Koroku - Associate Producer, Musical Supervisor
Hisashi Yamamoto - Executive Producer
Yokichi "Kaicho" Ohsato - Executive Producer
Tom Flye - Engineer, Mixing
Bob Edwards - Assistant Engineer
M. T. Silvia - Assistant Engineer
Noboru Katoh - Assistant Engineer
George Marino - Mastering
Goofy Mori - Artwork Concept, Art Direction
Jun Kobayashi - Photography
Kazunobu Yanagi - Photography

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Kojiki is an album by the new age artist Kitarō, which was nominated for a Grammy award in 1990. This album features the string section from the Skywalker Symphony, along with Kitarō's signature keyboard and flute sounds. It was released in 1990.



Kitarō crafts this musical journey from the ancient chronicle (Kojiki) that recounts the birth of Japan and it's people. Featuring the string section from the Skywalker Symphony, along with Kitarō's signature keyboard and flute sounds, the score to this thematic backdrop is full of passion and beauty that is masterfully conceived, arranged and performed.

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We learn from the liner notes of this 1990 release that Kojiki, is from the story of the same name familiar to Japanese school children, an ancient account of the creation of Japan. It is a mythical tale that provides a fitting thematic backdrop for the swelling symphonic flourishes that Kitarō uses liberally on this recording. Accompanied by a pop-rock ensemble, violinist Steve Kindler, and the string section from George Lucas's Skywalker Symphony Orchestra, Kitarō arranges a cinematic mix of drama and mystery that brings to mind the symphonic, crescendo-heavy side of John Tesh - appropriate for a fable that involves cataclysms, a hero's quest, a fair maiden, and a battle with an eight-headed dragon. Kitarō's keyboards and flutes are sometimes submerged in the mix, perhaps lost in the Celestial Rock Cave or swept away under the Bridge of Rainbows, but the intended attraction here is the widescreen flash and pop-orchestral dash generated by more than two-dozen pop and classical musicians. Overall, it may be a bit heavy-handed for New Age fans and a touch too pretty for progressive fans. The most effective piece is the disc's concluding work,"Reimei," a sweetly stirring, bell-chiming anthem. Overwrought to some, a masterpiece to others.

Terry Wood - Amazon.com



This new album is classic Kitarō, with many layers of synthesizer and orchestral textures stating the themes. There are more classical elements on this record, and a more "composed" feel to the songwriting.

All Music Guide



Some people are deeply moved by New Age music. Others think it’s swill. Kitarō’s past work did establish him as one of New Age’s musical kings (he was signed by a major record label and has toured widely; he was the subject of a 1989 PBS special). But even those who like New Age may have trouble with Kitarō’s 14th album.

He seems to be changing his tune. Here and there on Kojiki you’ll hear tinkling bells, or an electronic whoosh you might almost mistake for waves crashing on a misty beach. But for the most part that’s as close as the album gets to the normally contemplative sound you’d expect from New Age. Instead, the seven instrumental pieces on Kojiki are unexpectedly dramatic. They’re meant to evoke the grand sweep of ancient Japanese myths, which depict the world tumultuously created from chaos. And they retell those tales in a musical language straight from the soundtrack of a bad science fiction film.

What would the dialogue in that film be like? ”Captain! The ship! It’s breaking apart! It wasn’t built to handle the strains of this black hole!” Or: ”We’ve reached the center of the galaxy! My God, man, I’ve never seen such glorious stars!”

Not even Andrew Lloyd Webber has written music that pounds out 10th-rate cliches with such unrelenting sincerity. Kitarō is like a prophet who rides 10,000 feverish miles to tell us news we all heard 20 years ago.

GREG SANDOW - March 23 1990
Copyright © 2015 Entertainment Weekly



This new album is classic Kitarō, with many layers of synthesizer and orchestral textures stating the themes. There are more classical elements on this record, and a more "composed" feel to the songwriting. ~ MusD

For over a quarter century, Japan's Kitarō has been an internationally recognized icon and globally acclaimed composer and musician. Influenced early on by American rock and R&B, Kitarō began experimenting with synthesizers and a rainbow of unconventional sounds in the mid-'70s. His pioneering fusion of electronic artistry, traditional Japanese forms, and pop-inflected Western idioms created a lush, harmonic, and poetic sound that won the now legendary artist a huge international following. 1980's Volume 1 in the revered Silk Road series is considered an all-time masterpiece, with subsequent volumes only adding to its luster. '87's GRAMMY-nominated The Light Of The Spirit, a collaboration with Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, exceeded sales of two million in the U.S. alone, elevating Kitarō's presence Stateside to an unprecedented degree. 1992's transcendent Dream, made with Yes' Jon Anderson, was also a smash, and other highlights are too numerous to single out.
2000's Thinking Of You, which online music bible allmusic called "one of the most beautiful CDs of all time," won a GRAMMY for Best New Age Album, and Kitarō is universally acknowledged as a founding architect of the genre. That being said, Kitarō's atmospheric, powerfully emotive, and multi-textured music truly defies the constraints of any genre, epitomizing what Domo Records founder Eiichi Naito identifies as the label's guiding principle-"To provide a home for both the creators and aficionados of quality music beyond the borders of categorization."

Most fundamentally, at its heart, Kitarō's music is always about sending a profound message of peace and spiritual development, both personally and globally. With Sacred Journey Of Ku-kai Volume 2, the artist's lifelong vision coalesces into an elegant and wondrously integrated master work. The first in an important series, it offers a beautifully expressed and richly resonant experience through which to contemplate our changing world.

CDUniverse.com
 

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