Spiritual Garden
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Product Description 12 time Grammy nominated artist Kitaro is back again with his new release, SPIRITUAL GARDEN. Unlike his previous releases, this time around Kitaro collaborates with his wife, Keiko on the Butoh-influenced album. Butoh is a contemporary Japanese style of dance that combines traditional Japanese performing arts, Theater and improvisation, along with dance and German expressionist dance. While Butoh originated in Japan, it has become an international art form with festivals around the world dedicated solely to it. .com After only two volumes, Kitaro has taken a break from his Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai series, based on his travels to the 88 temples of Shikoku. Those temple journeys must have been tiring, because Spiritual Garden is Kitaro at his laziest and haziest. It's not just the somnambulant melodies, predictable sample-and-hold gurgles, and whooping Korg synthesizer lines that make it uninspired. Kitaro himself seems bored, barely bothered to develop anything beyond rudimentary pentatonic scales, crudely arranged drone pads, and tinkling bells. In the 1970s, Kitaro brought melody to space music and carried that through to ambitious works of orchestral world music on albums like 1990's Kojiki. But to listen to Spiritual Garden is to hear someone for whom time is moving backwards, oblivious to more than the quarter century of space, new age, and ambient music released since his debut. Whether it's the Pink Floyd space guitar at the end of "Sunlight Dancing" or the native flute, acoustic guitar, and burbling brook of "Wind and Water," Kitaro is locked in a parody of new age music, his early inspiration now worn into cliché. Fans of the synthesist should find a lot of familiar territory here, and well they should. The same music is already in their Kitaro collection. --John Diliberto
J**T
Buy this one...
This is Kitaro's best in my opinion, I've been listening to him since the 80's. The music is moving, uplifting and relaxing all-in-one. I've been listening to this in my car and "every" time my friend gets in my car she tells me she loves this CD. So I ordered this from Amazon as one of her Christmas presents and it is now in her CD player in her car. If you like Kitaro you will love this CD!
T**H
Quintessential Kitaro.
Quintessential Kitaro. One of the portions is a bit long for me, but I won't complain too much. :) Sounds like a movie score.
C**B
Kitaro
Absolutely beautiful music.
G**R
recommended!
A good Kitaro.
M**N
Mostly good
Most of the tracks on this CD are peaceful & relaxing, but #'s 3 & 7 (if I remember correctly) always catchme off guard when they begin. I have to just skip to the next track.
I**G
Four Stars
Typical Kitaro great recording!
C**E
Three Stars
Not really fan of this album
L**A
ok
The box the cd came in was in pieces.. It was shipped in a envelope with no padding... I was lucky the cd did not crack... the music is greaat...
D**E
Good loved listening to it therefore would reccomend it to Kitaro fans
Loved it arrived on time however the case was cracked which was a shame but I decided to keep the product as it would have been too much bother to return it. However as the case was cracked it was useless and I had to change it for a spare consequently the quality control did rather let it down.
C**N
Ottimo
Ottimo prodotto
M**6
Excellent pour moi
Tout est dans le titre.Pas d'autres commentaires à faire, mais comme il semble qu'il faille un minimum de mots: voilà c'est fait.
T**E
喜多郎さん流絵画のまた新たなる新境地
喜多郎さん、2006年リリースの本作品ですが、喜多郎バンドのワールドツアーのキーボード奏者でもある、Keiko Takahashiさんとのコラボ作品との形をとっています。喜多郎さんの音世界は、1978年の「Ten Kai」発表以来一貫しているようで、おおかたの予想を裏切る事はないのですが、本作品は従来の喜多郎サウンドの音の拡がりに加え、奥行きに深みを増したようで、さらに聴き手の想像力が働いてしまいます。今回の作品は比較的、民族楽器の導入は控え目のように思われ、よって、オリエンタル臭は濃厚ではないのですが、それが返って、喜多郎さんのシンセと、エレギ、ベース、ドラムとの対話を際立たせているように思われます。氏の作品が発表される度に、その対話は洗練され、まるで、また新たな手法を導入した喜多郎さん流の絵画を、今回も鑑賞しているかのような心境にさせられてしまいます。それはもう、僕には心地よくて、想えばPink Floydの Echoes のような陶酔感でもあり、One of These Daysのような恍惚感のようでもあり、それがまた同種のものとは成り得ない、紛う方なき喜多郎さんワールドなのだから、それはそれはもう驚嘆としか言いようがない。さて、現実に引き戻されるならば、本米国版CDは、演奏者等の詳細な情報に乏しく、欲求不満を感じてしまう事と、残念ながら、＃11Spiritual Garden を、日本の某TVCMのBGMとして先に聴いてしまった為、純粋に本作品のイメージを構築できなかった事が、残念でならない。
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