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Posted: April 08 2017 at 01:03
Off the topic for a moment - Synergy (or Larry Fast) did some great work with Nektar and Peter Gabriel (and many other artists). He has a knack for working with Moogs. I once had his debut LP, but it never grabbed me as such. A friend of mine had a record of one with an orchid flower on the cover. It didn't work too well, either. Seems I preferred his session work more than his solo. Vangelis (apparently pronounced as ' Van Gell (hard 'g') ees - not the common Van Jelous !!). His work is multi-genre and is very difficult to pigeon-hole (for those wishing to do such things). And the first few Kitaro albums are exotic sounding Prog-Electronic, through and through. About time he is 'awarded' an entry on this coveted site.
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Posted: April 08 2017 at 01:14
Tom Ozric wrote:
Off the topic for a moment - Synergy (or Larry Fast) did some great work with Nektar and Peter Gabriel (and many other artists). He has a knack for working with Moogs. I once had his debut LP, but it never grabbed me as such. A friend of mine had a record of one with an orchid flower on the cover. It didn't work too well, either. Seems I preferred his session work more than his solo. Vangelis (apparently pronounced as ' Van Gell (hard 'g') ees - not the common Van Jelous !!). His work is multi-genre and is very difficult to pigeon-hole (for those wishing to do such things). And the first few Kitaro albums are exotic sounding Prog-Electronic, through and through. About time he is 'awarded' an entry on this coveted site.
You'll be asking us to add King Crimson to this coveted site next that's why.
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Posted: April 08 2017 at 04:20
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^ Dunno What's yours ??
When you say: "About time he is 'awarded' an entry on this coveted site" after he has been added it seems both superfluous and redundant, especially when no one has objected to that addition.
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Posted: April 08 2017 at 04:26
^^ I meant that several years ago he was knocked back for whatever reason, and now he's been O.K.'d. That's great. There you go. And btw, who's this King Crimson dude anyway
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Posted: April 08 2017 at 04:44
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^^ I meant that several years ago he was knocked back for whatever reason, and now he's been O.K.'d. That's great. There you go. And btw, who's this King Crimson dude anyway
This smart gentleman:
Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV.
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Posted: April 10 2017 at 09:21
All this time I thought that the talk of Kitaro's addition had disappeared...but now I see it was all worth it.
I'm so glad Takahashi is on PA now, and I think in celebration an appreciation thread is warranted. So, any of you out there with an interest in Kitaro's work, go wild!
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Posted: April 10 2017 at 20:23
I don't have a lot of his stuff but was quite captivated by the first thing I ever heard, on a lonely night in the summer of 1982 when a French language station in Quebec City played "in Person: Digital" in its entirety. I've always thought that his great strength lay in making electronic music sound so spiritual
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Posted: April 11 2017 at 00:10
Now that I have finished my popcorn and drink while the merits of Kitaro were debated, I'm very happy that he is in. One of my favorite performers. His live albums are a bit more harder edged than his studio albums but I love how he can mix nature, with keyboards, drums and guitars and come up with inspiring albums. My one knock on him is he can fall in love some sounds and relay on them too much.
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Posted: April 11 2017 at 16:02
Kitaro's awesome, at least from 1978 up through 1986! I preferred his rig when it was analog-heavy. His best albums, IMO:
Ten Kai
Oasis
In Person
Ki
Full Moon Story
Silver Cloud
Live in Asia
Towards the West
Ki was my first Kitaro album. It remains my "favorite," but Ten Kai and Oasis I enjoy as much. The man really has his own "sound." To say the guy doesn't qualify as "progressive electronic" is absurd, because EM definitely falls under the progressive banner. (Really, electronic music is its own thing, anyway, standing on either side of the boundary line at any given time.)
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Posted: July 26 2017 at 02:07
^ 'Bitchin' eh ?? Not the word I'd use, but, yeah, cool. Ten Kai is where it's at for his solo output. Though a few others are beautiful too. I loved it when he was in Far East Family Band.
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