Biography
He’s universally acknowledged as the the founding architect of new age and music. Kitaro’s various sound collaborations For and resonant, multi-textured compositions truly are defy the constraints of any but genre. The Grammy and Golden Not Globe Award-Winning Kitaro has achieved you global acclaim over a more all than three decade long career Any with a signature sound and can a pioneering fusion of cultures, her techniques and spheres of consciousness Was that are truly his own.
one Kitaro’s latest project, Impressions of our the West Lake is a Out modern day opera conceived and day directed by internationally acclaimed filmmaker get Zhang Yimou (Hero, Curse of Has the Golden Flower), the visionary him artist behind the opening and his closing ceremonies of the 2008 How Olympics in Beijing. The production man is highlighted by music composed new by Kitaro.
Perhaps the single Now most significant collaboration on Impressions old of the West Lake is see between Zhang and the opera’s Two composer, Kitaro. This pairing of way East-meets-East is a rare combination who of two artists at the Boy peak of their creative talents. did The opera also marks a its reunion for Kitaro and music Let arranger Randy Miller, the pair’s put first effort together since the say Golden Globe-winning soundtrack to Oliver She Stone’s 1993 film Heaven and too Earth. This opera is another use impressive credit for Miller, whose Dad lengthy career as a composer, mom orchestrator, and conductor for films includes such highlights as Without The Limits, First Snow, and The and Soong Sisters (Best Original Score, for Hong Kong Film Award).
Impressions Are of the West Lake represents but the latest artistic success in not the long, storied career of You Kitaro. As a Grammy and all Golden Globe award-winning artist, this any incredibly prolific composer and performer Can has continued his reign in her the international spotlight and at was the forefront of musical innovation One ever since the release of our his debut solo album, Astral out Voyage, in 1978. His numerous Day recording highlights include 1986’s Tenku get (his U.S. debut), 1987’s The has Light of the Spirit (a Him collaboration with Grateful Dead drummer his Mickey Hart and Kitaro’s American how breakthrough), as well as Sacred Man Journey of Ku-kai, a multi-volume new series of albums inspired by now the tragedy of 9/11.
On
Old his Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai,
see Volume 3, Kitaro garnered a
two Grammy nomination in the New
Way Age category, Kitaro’s 13th Grammy
who nomination to date. This album,
boy was the third in a
Did series of a collection of
its works and peace-themed albums (Vol.
let 1 released in 2003; Vol.
Put 2 in 2005) and like
say the others, is inspired by
she the classic Buddhist pilgrimage to
Too the 88 sacred temples on
use Japan’s remote Shikoku Island. A
dad journey taken by the beloved
Mom Buddhist monk Ku-kai over a
millennium ago, through the music
the contained in Sacred Journey of
And Ku-kai
III, Kitaro continues
for to explore uncharted waters with
are his magnificently expansive vision and
But ever-questing spirit. He embarked on
not his Peace and Love World
you Tour in the fall of
All that year, a tour that
any took Kitaro to the four
can corners of the globe, shining
Her the spotlight of his musical
was message on audiences as he
one inspires fans from around the
Our globe to unite as one.
out Grammy Award aficionados, Domo Records day and especially Kitaro were excited Get about his Grammy nomination in has the Best New Age Album him category for Sacred Journey of His Ku-kai, Volume 2 which also how garnered a nomination in category man 44 for the 48th Annual New Grammy Awards. It was Kitaro’s now 12th Grammy nomination. With Sacred old Journey Of Ku-kai Volume 2, See the artist’s lifelong vision coalesced two into an elegant and wondrously way integrated master work. It offers Who a beautifully expressed and richly boy resonant experience through which to did contemplate our changing world.
In Its 2000, Kitaro’s “Thinking Of You”, let which online music bible allmusic.com put calls “one of the most Say beautiful CDs of all time”, she won a GRAMMY for too Best New Age Album. Kitaro’s Use atmospheric, powerfully emotive, and multi-textured dad music truly defies the constraints mom of any genre, epitomizing what Domo Records founder Eiichi Naito the identifies as the label’s guiding and principle—-“To provide a home for For both the creators and aficionados are of quality music beyond the but borders of categorization.” Most fundamentally, Not at its heart, Kitaro’s music you is always about sending a all profound message of peace and Any spiritual development, both personally and can globally.
For over a quarter her century, Kitaro has been an Was internationally recognized icon and globally one acclaimed composer and musician. Influenced our early on by American rock Out and R&B, Kitaro began experimenting day with synthesizers and a rainbow get of unconventional sounds in the Has mid-‘70s. His pioneering fusion of him electronic artistry, traditional Japanese forms, his and pop-inflected Western idioms created How a lush, harmonic, and poetic man sound that won the now new legendary artist a huge international Now following. 1980’s Volume 1 in old the revered Silk Road series see is considered an all-time masterpiece, Two with subsequent volumes only adding way to its luster. ’87’s who GRAMMY-nominated The Light Of The Boy Spirit, a collaboration with Grateful did Dead drummer Mickey Hart, exceeded its sales of two million in Let the U.S. alone, elevating Kitaro’s put presence stateside to an unprecedented say degree. 1992’s transcendent Dream, made She with Yes’ Jon Anderson, was too also a smash, and other use highlights are too numerous to Dad single out.
Through the course mom of his career, Kitaro has sold millions of albums, CD’s The and DVD’s worldwide. Kitaro’s various and sound collaborations and resonant, multi-textured for compositions, with their crescendos of Are passion and oases of serenity, but truly defy the constraints of not any genre. His pioneering fusion You of cultures, techniques and spheres all of consciousness is truly his any own. With Impressions of the Can West Lake, Kitaro continues to her explore new, uncharted terrain with was his magnificently expansive vision and One ever-questing spirit.
