An Enchanted Evening was nominated for Grammy in 1995 and includes the enhanced music Mandala, the Golden Globe Award winning of the original score for Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth, and other earlier works.
PBS featured An Enchanted Evening Vol.1 video of this live performance.
An Enchanted Evening Vol. II - VHS video was released in 1996 featuring never before seen interview footage of Kitaro at home in the Colorado Rocky Mountains with nature scenes and live performances combined as a musical documentary. (Note: This Vol. II is out of print and very rare.)
Video Tracks:
01. Intro – ‘Planet’
02. Interview – Kitaro and Nature
03. Performance – ‘Chants from the Heart’
04. Interview – Taiko Drums
05. Performance – ‘Spirit of Taiko’; (Kitaro says, “I believe the animal (skin covering) lives again when I play the taiko.”)
06. Interview – Dance of Sarasvati
07. Performance – ‘Dance of Sarasvati’
08. Interview – Kitaro at his home (Ward, Colorado)
09. Performance – ‘Caravansary’
10. Interview – Canoe ride on Gold Lake at Kitaro’s home
11. Outstanding Performance – ‘Fire’
12. Interview – The technical side of Kitaro
13. Interview – Scoring movies; (Kitaro said, “… Mr. [Oliver]Stone made many changes [Heaven and Earth] but I learned a lot.”)
14. Performance – ‘Heaven and Earth’ (Golden Globe Award)
15. Interview – More on movie scoring and future projects (alludes to ‘Tamayura’ project)
16. Performance – ‘Silk Road’ (Kitaro’s claim to Worldwide fame with for NHK’s five year television project. Please see ‘Tenjiku’. Kitaro was selected from ten other musicians NHK was considering at that time. Kitaro was chosen based on the music from his album ‘Oasis’. To NHK, Kitaro’s music was “mind music” and would fit the theme of the ancients that had traveled the famous Silk Road. NHK also recognized the music Kitaro was producing was not unlike the sounds from the “pure organ sound” Dr. Tanaka had discovered over 100 years ago. (Kitaro was around 27 years old at this time))
17. Interview – Nature and Music
18. Performance – ‘Cosmic Love’
