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Tracks:
Theme From Silk Road
Bell Tower
Flying Celestial Nymphs
Mirage
Linden
40080
Taklamakan Desert
Lord of the Wind
Caravansary
Moon-Star
Pray at Xian/Mercury
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This album was released in February 2003. The
music was originally written for the soundtrack to the long-running
Japanese television series
Silk Road for NHK. The documentry aired from1976 through 1981
and was about the
Ancient
trading route named
Silk Road that links Europe to China.
It was then a growing international contingent of fans grew quickly to
admire Kitaro's soundtrack as a masterpiece
for its serene and suductive arrangements.
The
Silk Road music became a phenomenon that identified this
remarkable twenty-three old musician by millions worldwide.
Record track 1 is a previously unreleased version of the Theme From
Silk Road, recorded November 2002
Record Tracks 2, 4, 8 and 10 from
Silk
Road,
Silk Road Volume 1,
Silk Road Volume 2,and
Silk
Road Volume 3 (also released as
Tunhuang), were all digitally remastered in 1996 on
Best of Ten
Years.
Record tracks 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9, originally from that era, features
the talents by Yu-Xiao Guang performing on the Chinese Huquin (violin)
from the 1996 release of
Kitaro's World of Music aimed at sophisticated
Kitaro fans. Yu-Xiao
Guang's inspired playing was prominently featured on
Kitaro's Golden Globe Award winning soundtrack for
the film
Heaven & Earth.
Record track 11 is a peviously unrelesed version, recoded live in live
in Xian, 2002
For a glimpse into Kitaro's continued inspiration for the
Silk
Road music in this 21st Century, see
Yakushiji
Daylight,
Moonlight
In a special event for world peace, Kitaro
performed three shows in the holy temple of
Yakushiji in Nara, Japan, on three late-summer
evening in 2001, beneath a brilliant full moon. The first concert ever
presented in the venerable temple. It is also the resting place of the
ashes of Genjo Sanzo, the 7th Century Monk who walked the
Silk Road from
Japan to India and back. It was Genjo who brought from India the sacred
texts that introduced Buddhism into China and Japan.
It was Genjo's journey that inspired the
Silk Road
music recalls Kitaro,
"I was hoping to capture
in the music his experience along the way. And the passion we expressed
in the Yakushiji concert reflected, I believe, the passion of Genjo's
journey."
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