Thoughts on Kitaro

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.

infocat wrote: I have the first two Synergy albums and I don't understand why they are not fit for PE.  Explain please?

I agree too.

For me, Synergy's approach is more adventurous than Kitaro's :

- His music is always changing, constantly evolving through a variety of ambiances (spacey, threatening, and even joyful...), nearly unpredictable, resembling no other at the time.

- Albums such as Cords and Games pre-dates 80's video-games music and has certainly influenced the chip-tune scene.

- He tried computer-generated music with his albums Computer Experiments (not his best ones, but the intention was here)

For these reasons, he built his own path and a new musical micro-universe, and therefore made electronic music "progress".


Edited by Modrigue - April 07 2017 at 23:00

Meltdowner wrote: ^ I think it's more probable someone discovering the PE genre after finding Jarre and Vangelis on PR

Meltdowner wrote: I'm a big fan of Jarre, and Oxygène is a very important album for me, but I don't think his work matches the definition of PE. Some of his songs are closer to it though. The problem with Vangelis is where exactly to put him, he explored so much musical genres in his career that it's impossible to pick a single Prog sub-genre. Maybe if the genre per album feature is added to the site? Synergy is even further from PE, in my opinion. But is it really important, considering these three are here already?

Edited by Modrigue - April 07 2017 at 05:31

^ Kitaro was added on account of his first few albums, where the Berlin School influences are clearer.

Edited by Meltdowner - April 07 2017 at 05:12

He's in
And nice work from Aussie Byrd too !!

He's currently one of the one hundred artists in our chart.

Any progress on this topic ??

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: I don't think so. His music is pure New Age and had no influence on Prog.

siLLy puPPy wrote: ^ i suggested it to the PSIKE team but doesn't seem like they are on board with it, so i would advise trying to woo one of our honorable admins to see if he could be deemed worthy of a prog related inclusion.