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Kitarō: Millennia

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Label: Geffen Records
Released: 1982.02.01
Time:
 48:15
Category: New Age
Producer(s): Takayo Nanri
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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] Prologue (Kitarō) - 0:35
[2] Space Queen (Kitarō) - 5:37
[3] Seiun (Kitarō) - 7:57
[4] Nikari No Sono (Kitarō) - 4:30
[5] Maboroshi (Kitarō) - 5:35
[6] Cosmic Love (Kitarō) - 5:58
[7] Jiyo Eno Kakehashi (Kitarō) - 6:23
[8] Puromesyume (Kitarō) - 4:28
[9] Epilogue (Kitarō) - 7:12

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Kitarō - Arrangements, Various Instruments

Takayo Nanri - Producer
Moko Nanri - Associate Producer
Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff - Art Direction, Design
Naoki Fukuda - Photography
Norman Moore - Art Direction, Design

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1982 LP Canyon Records ‎C28G0124
1985 CD Geffen Records 9 24084-2
1990 CD Geffen Records 9 24084-2


Soundtrack for the Japanese movie Queen Millennia. The album is a pure instrumental album. The famous song Angel Queen, sung by Dara Sedaka in the movie, is included as an instrumental version ("Puromesyume"). The original version by Canyon Records was published as LP only and can be found in Japanese second hand shops very easily. The Polydor (Hong Kong) version was published as LP only, like the Canyon Records version, but is harder to get. The only version published as LP and CD was the later Geffen Records release. But this license ran out years ago. In the moment (2012/2013) no record company offers "Queen Millennia" in a new edition.




"Millennia" is a distinguishing album filled with softly romantic, ambient melodies in a New Age, Japanese style. The compositions were based on Kitarō's soundtrack music to a 1982 animie "Queen Millennia" - an explosive Sci-Fi that stood in stark contrast to the thoroughly exquisite music here in the album, which impresses one particularly as a modern rendition of the bygone love songs in the old-time Japan.

(5) 'Illusion/Phantom' is a glimmery song that sounds especially touching to me, with its penetrating opening melody of a woodwind duo that is deeply melancholy and Japanese.

(6) 'Cosmic Love' stands out as another beautiful air with an elegant flow of freestyle melodies, more sublime than the remix version in the 1988 album "Ten Years".

(8) 'Puromesyume' (a name some translated as 'Imaginary dream') is a tender, woodwind rendition of the glittery, percussive theme song 'Space Queen' (2) following the swift Prologue (1) - very delicate and lovely.

(9) 'Epilogue' finishes its enchanting flute and brass melodies with a soft and long drumming rhythm alongside to the very end - very classic.

The other three tracks have a spacious and intense feel in contrast.

(3) 'Nebula' is an atmospheric Largo air blown with a serene-sounding brass.

(4) 'Garden of Light' interrupts the gentle flow of music with a tense, pulsating rhythm accompanying a profoundly wistful and penetrating wind song - upsetting an otherwise completely smooth-flowing music.

(7) 'Bridge for Freedom' resumes the tight-paced rhythm with a long brass air gradually drummed up to a climax and ended all at once, only to be followed by a lingering flute air alongside a soft rhythm slowly fading into oblivion - simply dramatic and bemusing.

Overall, the Millennia songs have a pensive blue mood but thoroughly meticulous, elegant, and softly entrancing - unquestionably a gleaming gem in the Kitarō music world, and a New Age classic of Japanese instrumental music.
 

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