Kitaro - "The Essential Collection"

Kakuru - "NHK Special The 20th Century In" original soundtrack version Moving Images) Orignal Soundtrack

Yokoyama Jing'er-"Three Kingdoms-Dawn of Heroes"

Himegami-"Moonwater" (Water Moon)

The following are the individual music Introduction to the album, I hope you like it

1. Kitaro’s world’s first XRCD2 production album! Contains the theme song of Asia Television’s Hong Kong TV special, (Story of Searching for a Foreign Country 1 & 2), Silk Road I- II, Dunhuang, Qasis, Mandala and the hot-selling Song Dynasty.

From the Silk Road to the Eye of the Wind, from the Song Dynasty to Soaring Birds, Kitaro uses his Yamaha electronic synthesizer to give us a structure Creating one wonderful and weird musical space after another. Kitaro rarely uses symphony to enhance the heavy sense of space in music. He always just stays in the various mixed sound effects of electronic synthesizers, which is fashionable and psychedelic without losing the ancient style; He also rarely cares about the appreciation level of Western audiences. His music can only be understood by Easterners, or only people who can accept and understand ancient Eastern culture.

2. Around 2000, Japan. The broadcasting association NHK produced a large-scale documentary "The Century of Image". Because movies were invented at the beginning of the 20th century, NHK reviewed the human history of the entire 20th century with the help of precious historical video materials. It's Gaguron.

"Is Paris Burning" is the theme song of "The Century of Reflections"? Watching the documentary, I didn't expect to hear such heavy music. But as the plot of the documentary develops, this piece of music increasingly shows its charm. The 20th century not only brought joyful technological progress, but also made people sad. From World War I and World War II to the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq War, NHK has shown the bloody history through documentaries, and the richness and richness of this song just reflects NHK’s serious approach to examining the 20th century. . Especially when I was reflecting on the war after the hot war, with the picture facing thousands of martyrs’ tombs and this music playing slowly in the background, I couldn’t help but think of the various sacrifices and bloodshed made for the progress of civilization, and I couldn’t help but feel heavy, even a little bit. The urge to cry. In addition, the song also expresses the industrial and scientific aspects of the 20th century through a relatively rigid melody

3. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms·Heroes of the Night" (also known as "The Dawn of Heroes") ") is a work by the famous Japanese musician Seiji Yokoyama. It is the opening song of the 7-hour cartoon movie "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". It is also a combination of Japan's own sophisticated synthesizers and Chinese folk instruments. The Chinese folk music instruments in the music include erhu, guzheng, pipa, etc. In order to make the production exquisite, the Japanese side specially invited performers from the mainland to Japan to participate in the entire recording process. All the styles of the movie respect the Chinese style. The main melody of the soundtrack has always been played by the erhu, from the interlude of the theme song to all the main soundtrack passages. The opening music of the first movie "Dawn of Heroes" is a masterpiece of guzheng and synthesizer collaboration. In addition, a special song of graceful flowers (Tanimura Shinji) is included.

4. Among Japan’s new age music composers, the most influential ones are Kitaro Kitaro and Himekami Himekami. However, the former is more famous in the international music scene, mainly because of Kitaro’s production and distribution. He has many albums and can be said to be a prolific composer. Compared with Kitaro, Himegami has released relatively few albums, but all of his creations are definitely of high quality.