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Kitarō: Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai Vol. 3

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Label: Domo Records
Released: 2007.09.25
Time:
 60:49
Category: New Age
Producer(s): Kitarō
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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] Sky And Ocean (Kitarō) - 8:58
[2] Crystal Winds (Kitarō) - 6:20
[3] After The Rain (Kitarō) - 7:32
[4] Sacred Fountain (Kitarō) - 7:02
[5] Winds Blow Over The Hill (Kitarō) - 6:31
[6] Into The Forest (Kitarō) - 5:45
[7] Voice In Blue (Kitarō) - 8:04
[8] Circle Dance (Kitarō) - 10:51

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Kitarō - Producer, Composer, Arranger, Engineer, Mixing, Keyboards, Photography

Paul Pesco - Guitars
Keiko Takahashi - Keyboards, Arrangements
Masayuki Koga - Shakuhachi
Alexander Adhami - Cello, Santoor, Guitar, Ebow, Flute

Doug Sax - Mastering
Randy Miller - Orchestration, Arrangements
Steven Miller - Engineer
Ian Ulibarri - Engineer
Eiichi Naito - Executive Producer, Management
Dino Malito - Artists & Repertoire, Management
Howard Sapper - Business & Legal Affairs
Hitoshi Saito - Marketing
Kio Griffith - Art Direction, Design

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Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai is a series of peace-themed albums by new age artist Kitarō, inspired by the classic Buddhist pilgrimage to the 88 sacred temples on Japan's island of Shikoku. Each album in the series has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album.



Kitarō picks up the path of his sacred journey through Shikoku, an island that has 88 temples, each with its own distinct temple bells.  The Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai, Volume 3, is the latest in a projected multi-disc series in which the Japanese keyboardist has been recording those bells and working them into the matrix of his music.  Taking its name from Kukai, a Japanese monk and founder of the Shingon school of Buddhism in the 9th century, the series follows a path that gets more languid with each album.  The synthesist has jettisoned most of the sappy strings that marred his previous journeys, opting for floating, ambient spaces centered around organic sounds.  "Crystal Winds" might be the most carefully formed, albeit rhythm-free and melodically amorphous track Kitarō has composed in years.  It builds from a floating array of Native American flute, zithers, Balinese gamelan, temple bells, and harmonic singing merging into filter-swept synthesizer before a brief santoor melody is teased out of it.  It's not long before Kitarō tosses in electric-guitar leads on the grandiose sweep of "After the Rain," replete with his patented whooping Korg lead lines.  If he'd left out the sampled choirs and strings, it might've risen above generic easy-listening new age, which is still preferable to "Winds Blow over the Hill," a thinly veiled lift from his own Silk Road that makes it sound like a score for a sanatorium.  But Kitarō redeems himself with the last two tracks, a hypnotic jam with some uncharacteristically raving guitar over a sequencer ostinato called "Voice in Blue," and "Circle Dance," a ritualistic piece for bells, flute, and what sounds like metal mixing bowls.  I kept looking into the kitchen to see if my wife was making something, but I liked the way it added three-dimensionality to the piece.  With The Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai, Volume 3, Kitarō gives us hope that the trek might be worth continuing.

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A single flute rises from the silence like a heron from a still lake, setting the simple, quiet tone of this Grammy-nominated 2007 release. Celebrated new age keyboardist/composer Kitarō has often employed intrepid melodies and bombastic arrangements in his work, but here, as on the previous two installments of this trilogy, he opts for spare, emotive lines that evoke natural beauty and meditative stillness.

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