Kitarō, the Glossary
, born (February 4, 1953), is a Japanese recording artist, composer, record producer, and arranger noted for his electronic-instrumental music, and is often associated with and regarded as one of the most prominent musical acts of new-age music.[1]
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97 relations: AllMusic, An Enchanted Evening, Analog synthesizer, Ancient (album), Astral Voyage (album), Billboard 200, Buddhism, Classical music, Convention on Biological Diversity, Daming Palace, Dennis Banks, Digital synthesizer, Domo Records, Dream (Kitarō album), Electronic music, Electronica, Final Call (album), Folk music, Gaia-Onbashira, Galaxy Award (Japan), Geffen Records, GeGeGe no Kitarō, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, Golden Globe Awards, Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, Grammy Award for Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album, Grateful Dead, Heaven & Earth (1993 film), Heaven & Earth (soundtrack), Homecoming (1984 film), Hong Kong Film Awards, Hypernymy and hyponymy, Impressions of the West Lake, Instrumental, Japan Gold Disc Awards, Jon Anderson, Kazuo Taoka, Kūkai, Klaus Schulze, Kojiki, Kojiki (album), Korg miniKORG 700, Laos, Let Mother Earth Speak, List of ambient music artists, Los Angeles Times, Mandala (Kitarō album), Marty Friedman, MCA Records, Megadeth, ... Expand index (47 more) »
- Ambient composers
- Domo Records artists
- Electronic composers
- Gramavision Records artists
- Musicians from Toyohashi
- New-age composers
- New-age synthesizer players
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
An Enchanted Evening
An Enchanted Evening is a live album by Kitarō, released on June 29, 1995, recorded during his world tour that year.
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Analog synthesizer
An analog synthesizer (analogue synthesiser) is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog signals to generate sound electronically.
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Ancient (album)
Ancient is an album by Japanese new age artist, Kitarō, which was released in 2001.
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Astral Voyage (album)
Astral Voyage (released in Japan as Ten Kai) is the first studio album by Japanese new-age musician, Kitarō.
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Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
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Convention on Biological Diversity
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is a multilateral treaty.
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Daming Palace
The Daming Palace was the imperial palace complex of the Tang dynasty, located in its capital Chang'an.
Dennis Banks
Dennis Banks (April 12, 1937, in Ojibwe – October 29, 2017) was a Native American activist, teacher, and author. Kitarō and Dennis Banks are Domo Records artists.
Digital synthesizer
A digital synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to make musical sounds.
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Domo Records
Domo Records is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California.
Dream (Kitarō album)
Dream is an album by the Japanese new age musician Kitarō, featuring vocals by Jon Anderson, singer of the band Yes on three songs.
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Electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.
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Electronica
Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom.
Final Call (album)
Final Call is an album by Japanese New Age recording artist Kitaro, released by Domo Records on September 10, 2013.
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Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
Gaia-Onbashira
Gaia-Onbashira is an album by the new age artist Kitarō.
Galaxy Award (Japan)
is a Japanese production award for television, radio and commercials.
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Geffen Records
Geffen Records (formerly Geffen Records Inc. until 2004) is an American record label, founded in 1980 by David Geffen.
GeGeGe no Kitarō
, originally known as, is a Japanese manga series created in 1960 by Shigeru Mizuki.
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Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score is a Golden Globe Award presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947.
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Golden Globe Awards
The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed for excellence in both American and international film and television.
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Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Taipei Golden Horse Awards are a film festival and associated awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan.
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Grammy Award for Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album
The Grammy Award for Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album is presented to recording artists for quality albums in the new-age music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.
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Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California, known for their eclectic style that fused elements of rock, blues, jazz, folk, country, bluegrass, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, and world music with psychedelia.
Heaven & Earth (1993 film)
Heaven & Earth is a 1993 American biographical war drama film written and directed by Oliver Stone, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor, Joan Chen, and Hiep Thi Le.
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Heaven & Earth (soundtrack)
Heaven & Earth is the official soundtrack to the 1993 Golden Globe-winning film of the same name directed by Oliver Stone, with the original score composed by Japanese composer Kitarō.
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Homecoming (1984 film)
Homecoming (似水流年) is a 1984 Hong Kong film directed by Yim Ho.
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Hong Kong Film Awards
The Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA), founded in 1982, is an annual film awards ceremony in Hong Kong.
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Hypernymy and hyponymy
Hypernymy and hyponymy are the semantic relations between a generic term (hypernym) and a specific instance of it (hyponym).
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Impressions of the West Lake
Impressions of the West Lake is an album by Japanese new age musician Kitarō, released in April 2009.
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Instrumental
An instrumental or instrumental song is music normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting.
Japan Gold Disc Awards
The is an award presented by the Recording Industry Association of Japan in the field of music.
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Jon Anderson
Jon Roy Anderson (born John Roy Anderson on 25 October 1944) is an English and American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the former lead singer of the progressive rock band Yes, which he formed in 1968 with bassist Chris Squire.
Kazuo Taoka
was one of the most prominent yakuza godfathers.
Kūkai
Kūkai (空海; 27 July 774 – 22 April 835Kūkai was born in 774, the 5th year of the Hōki era; his exact date of birth was designated as the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the Japanese lunar calendar, some 400 years later, by the Shingon sect (Hakeda, 1972 p. 14). Accordingly, Kūkai's birthday is commemorated on June 15 in modern times.
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Klaus Schulze
Klaus Schulze (4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022) was a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician.
Kojiki
The, also sometimes read as or, is an early Japanese chronicle of myths, legends, hymns, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts down to 641 concerning the origin of the Japanese archipelago, the, and the Japanese imperial line.
Kojiki (album)
Kojiki is an album by the new age artist Kitarō, which was nominated for a Grammy award in 1990.
Korg miniKORG 700
The miniKORG 700 is a monophonic analog synthesizer released by Korg in 1973, marking their entry into mass-produced synthesizers and their first monophonic synthesizer.
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Laos
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.
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Let Mother Earth Speak
Let Mother Earth Speak is a collaboration album, by Japanese new age musician Kitaro and Native American activist Dennis Banks.
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List of ambient music artists
This is a list of ambient music artists. Kitarō and list of ambient music artists are ambient musicians.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Mandala (Kitarō album)
Mandala is an album by Kitarō, released in 1994.
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Marty Friedman
(born December 8, 1962) is an American guitarist, best known for his tenure as the lead guitarist of thrash metal band Megadeth from 1990 to 2000.
MCA Records
MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc. established in 1972, though MCA had released recordings under that name in the UK from the 1960s.
Megadeth
Megadeth is an American thrash metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1983 by vocalist/guitarist Dave Mustaine.
Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist.
Minimoog
The Minimoog is an analog synthesizer first manufactured by Moog Music between 1970 and 1981.
Musicians United for Safe Energy
Musicians United for Safe Energy, or MUSE, is an activist group founded in 1979 by Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, Harvey Wasserman and John Hall.
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.
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New-age music
New-age is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism.
NHK
, also known by its romanized initialism NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster.
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Nippon Columbia
, often pronounced Korombia, operating internationally as, is a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as Nipponophone Co., Ltd.
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Obi (publishing)
An is a strip of paper looped around a book or other product.
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Otis Redding
Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer and songwriter.
Peace on Earth (Kitaro album)
Peace on Earth is a Kitaro album of classic Christmas songs taken from cultures around the world.
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Progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s.
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Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.
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Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai
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 (see Shikoku Pilgrimage).
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Scenes (album)
Scenes is the second studio album by guitarist Marty Friedman, released on November 17, 1992 through Shrapnel Records (United States) and Roadrunner Records (Europe).
Sebastopol, California
Sebastopol is a city in Sonoma County, in California with a recorded population of 7,521, per the 2020 U.S. Census.
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September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.
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Shikoku
, is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan.
Shikoku Pilgrimage
The or is a multi-site pilgrimage of 88 temples associated with the Buddhist monk Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi) on the island of Shikoku, Japan.
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Shinjuku
, officially called Shinjuku City, is a special ward of Tokyo, Japan.
Shinto
Shinto is a religion originating in Japan.
Shrapnel Records
Shrapnel Records is an American record label group founded by record producer Mike Varney.
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Silk Road
The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.
Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
Singapore long hair ban
A ban on long hair once existed in Singapore.
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Spiritual Garden
Spiritual Garden is an album by Kitarō, inspired by the Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance of Koichi Tamano.
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Symphony Live in Istanbul
Symphony Live in Istanbul is an album by Japanese new-age recording artist Kitaro, released by Domo Records on September 9, 2014.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.
Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese.
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Tehran
Tehran (تهران) or Teheran is the capital and largest city of Iran as well as the largest in Tehran Province.
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
The China Post
The China Post was an English-language newspaper published in Taiwan (officially the Republic of China), alongside the Taipei Times and the Taiwan News.
The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor (CSM), commonly known as The Monitor, is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition.
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The Light of the Spirit
The Light Of The Spirit is a Kitarō studio album co-produced by the Grateful Dead drummer, Mickey Hart.
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The Silk Road (Japanese TV series)
is a documentary television series produced by Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) that was first broadcast during the 1980s.
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The Soong Sisters (film)
The Soong Sisters is a 1997 Hong Kong historical drama film based on the lives of the Soong sisters from 1911 to 1949.
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Thinking of You (Kitarō album)
Thinking Of You is an album by Kitarō which won at the 43rd Grammy Awards for Best New Age Album.
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Tokyo Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan
, also known as Wel City Tokyo, was a 2,062-seat (1st floor: 1,186 seats, 2nd floor: 876 seats) concert hall in Tokyo, one of a number of public concert halls in Japan called Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan.
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Toyohashi
is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
Vangelis
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου,; 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), known professionally as Vangelis (Βαγγέλης), was a Greek musician, composer, and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music. Kitarō and Vangelis are ambient musicians, electronic composers, new-age composers and new-age synthesizer players.
Vertigo Records
Vertigo Records is a British record company.
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Ward, Colorado
Ward is a home rule municipality in Boulder County, Colorado, United States.
Warner Records
Warner Records Inc. (formerly known as Warner Bros. Records Inc. until 2019) is an American record label.
World music
"World music" is an English phrase for styles of music from non-Western countries, including quasi-traditional, intercultural, and traditional music.
Yes (band)
Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by lead singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford.
Zhang Yimou
Zhang Yimou (born 14 November 1950) is a Chinese filmmaker.
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
On 11 March 2011, at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC), a 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region.
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51st Golden Globe Awards
The 51st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1993, were held on January 22, 1994, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
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See also
Ambient composers
- Akira Yamaoka
- Alex Asher Daniel
- Andrei Krylov (composer)
- Brian Eno
- Dream Dolphin
- Hoshiko Yamane
- Junya Nakano
- Karl Jenkins
- Kitarō
- Kris Bowers
- Lisa Bella Donna
- Michael Stearns
- Pauline Anna Strom
- Poppy (singer)
- Rob Mounsey
- Specimens (musician)
- Susumu Yokota
Domo Records artists
- Chuck Barris
- Dave Eggar
- David Arkenstone
- Dennis Banks
- Hiromitsu Agatsuma
- Ingrid Fuzjko Hemming
- Kip Winger
- Kitarō
- Luis Villegas
- Michael Vescera
- Nao Watanabe
- Nawang Khechog
- Ray Obiedo
- Rin'
- Selda Bağcan
- Steve Reid (The Rippingtons)
- The Violet Burning
- Yoshida Brothers
- Yukiko Haneda
Electronic composers
- Ayumi Hamasaki
- BT (musician)
- Brian Tyler
- Catherine Christer Hennix
- Cornel Țăranu
- Dick Hyman
- Disasterpeace
- Edgard Varèse
- George Newson
- Harold Faltermeyer
- Hiro Fujikake
- Isao Tomita
- Joseph Trapanese
- Jun Ishikawa (composer)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Kenichiro Fukui
- Kitarō
- Kohta Takahashi
- Kris Bowers
- Lisa Bella Donna
- Luciano Berio
- Manabu Namiki
- Mark Isham
- Mark Shreeve
- Mason Bates
- Morton Subotnick
- Naoki Maeda (composer)
- Nick Franglen
- Pamela Z
- Rom Di Prisco
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Soichi Terada
- Susumu Yokota
- Tetsuya Komuro
- Toby Fox
- Tom Holkenborg
- Tōru Takemitsu
- Vangelis
- Wendy Carlos
- Yann Tomita
- Yanni
- Yuzo Koshiro
Gramavision Records artists
- Anthony Davis (composer)
- Arditti Quartet
- Arto Lindsay
- Aydın Esen
- Bernie Worrell
- Bill Frisell
- Billy Hart
- Bob Moses (musician)
- Bob Telson
- Bobby Previte
- Charly García
- Clusone Trio
- David Fiuczynski
- Didier Lockwood
- Gordon Beck
- Harry Manfredini
- Harvie S
- Jamaaladeen Tacuma
- James Newton
- John Blake Jr.
- John Carter (jazz musician)
- John Medeski
- John Scofield
- Kazumi Watanabe
- Kitarō
- La Monte Young
- Medeski Martin & Wood
- Motohiko Hino
- Myra Melford
- Oranj Symphonette
- Paul Halley
- Pee Wee Ellis
- Peter Apfelbaum
- Philip Catherine
- Ray Anderson (musician)
- Robert Wyatt
- Ron Miles
- Steven Halpern
- Taj Mahal (musician)
- Vinicius Cantuária
Musicians from Toyohashi
New-age composers
- Al Conti
- Andreas Vollenweider
- Arash (composer)
- Cheryl B. Engelhardt
- Dream Dolphin
- Eloy Fritsch
- Isao Tomita
- Judith Pintar
- Karl Jenkins
- Kenji Kawai
- Kitarō
- Laza Ristovski
- Loren Gold
- Michael Duwe
- Michael Hoenig
- Mike Oldfield
- Missa Johnouchi
- Norihiro Tsuru
- Pauline Anna Strom
- Peter Davison (composer)
- Ricky Kej
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
- SEAY
- Tony Kaldas
- Vangelis
- Wynne Paris
- Yanni
New-age synthesizer players
- Arash (composer)
- Arik Rudich
- Brad Fiedel
- Bradley Joseph
- Constance Demby
- Eloy Fritsch
- Francis Rimbert
- Isao Tomita
- Jean Ven Robert Hal
- Jean-Michel Jarre
- Julius Dobos
- Kitarō
- Mark Isham
- Miha Kralj
- Vangelis
- Vince DiCola
- Yanni
- Yoshiaki Hoshi
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitarō
Also known as An Ancient Journey (Kitaro album), An Ancient Journey (Kitarō album), Far East Family Band, Kitaro, Kitarou, Masanori Takahashi, Tenku, The Definitive Collection (Kitaro), .
, Mickey Hart, Minimoog, Musicians United for Safe Energy, Native Americans in the United States, New-age music, NHK, Nippon Columbia, Obi (publishing), Otis Redding, Peace on Earth (Kitaro album), Progressive rock, Rhythm and blues, Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai, Scenes (album), Sebastopol, California, September 11 attacks, Shikoku, Shikoku Pilgrimage, Shinjuku, Shinto, Shrapnel Records, Silk Road, Singapore, Singapore long hair ban, Spiritual Garden, Symphony Live in Istanbul, Synthesizer, Tangerine Dream, Tehran, The Beatles, The China Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Light of the Spirit, The Silk Road (Japanese TV series), The Soong Sisters (film), Thinking of You (Kitarō album), Tokyo Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan, Toyohashi, Vangelis, Vertigo Records, Ward, Colorado, Warner Records, World music, Yes (band), Zhang Yimou, 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, 51st Golden Globe Awards.