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Tangerine Dream articles/mentions
Masanori Takahashi (Kitaro), Sandra Sakata & Kaisik Wong
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date & photograsphe unknown
Yesterday was the birthday of Kitaro, who was born Masanori Takahashi in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan. He was a major influence on Sandra Sakata of the art to wear boutique, Obiko, and art to wear fashion designer, Kaisik Wong (links below).
Kitaro is a graduate of Sahid University. Kitarō, which is his boyhood name meaning "man of love and joy", a practicing Buddhist himself, was born in a family of Shinto-Buddhist farmers.
After graduating his parents were first opposed to the idea of their
son having a musical career. In an effort to maneuver him towards their
vision, they made arrangements for him to take a job at a local
company. In return, he did not show for the job without telling them,
and managed to convince them to work on something he loved.
In high school Kitarō played electric guitar in a band that played American rhythm and blues of Otis Redding and covers by The Beatles.
After graduating, and learning to play drums and bass, Kitaro moved to
Tokyo to experience and become a part of the music scene, and it was
there that he discovered the synthesizer. His first synthesizer was analog, and he recalls having "just loved the analog sound that it made compared to today's digital sound".
He lived in Ward, Colorado,
on a 180-acre (72.85 hectare) spread and composed in his
2500-square-foot (230 m²) home studio "Mochi House" (it is large enough
to hold a 70-piece orchestra).[20] Around 2005, they relocated to Sebastopol, California.
Kitaro won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album for Thinking of You (1999), with a record 16 nominations in the same category. He received a Golden Globe Award for the original score to Heaven & Earth (1993).
photo by Eddie Sung
February 4, 2021
20,000 vinyl LPs 272: Kitaro ~ Silk Road, Sandra Sakata & Kaisik Wong
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Side 2:
B1 - Silk Road Fantasy (Silk Road Genso) - 4:35
B2 - Shimmering Light (Hikari To Kage) - 3:14
B3 - Westbound (Nishi Ni Mukkatte) - 3:04
B4 - Time - (Toki No Nagare) - 3:29
B5 - Bodhisattva (Bosatsu) - 1:59
B6 - Everlasting Road (Towa No Michi) - 5:50
Side 3:
Side 4:
D1 - Year 40080 (40080 Nen) - 4:38
D2 - Time Travel (Jikukan) - 2:38
D3 - Reincarnation (Saisei) - 4:15
D4 - Dawning (Yoake) - 3:15
D5 - Tienshan (Tenzan) - 4:35
Companies, etc.
Copyright © – Canyon Records, Inc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Kuckuck Schallplatten
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – E.R.P. Musikverlag
Pressed By – Teldec-Press GmbH – 76.28 823
Recorded At – Kamakura Studio
Recorded At – Miasa Studios
Mixed At – Kamakura Studio –
Mixed At – Hitokuchizaka Studio
Mixed At – Sound Design Studio, Tokyo
Credits:
Composed By, Arranged By – Kitaro
Design – Hermann Wernhard, T. Shibayama*
Engineer – Kitaro
Engineer [Assistant] – A. Kaji*, S. Taya
Executive-Producer – Kimio Ariumi
Mixed By – Kitaro, Masayoshi Ohkawa*
Photography By – S. Ohtsuka*, Y. Takara
Producer – Takayo Nanri
Producer [Associate] – Moko Nanri
Programmed By [Synthesizers] – Kitaro
Synthesizer [Korg, Roland, Yamaha, Moog, Prophet], Acoustic Guitar, Drums, Percussion, Quena, Bells [Chanting], Mellotron, Santoor – Kitaro
Notes:
This version has label matrix numbers starting with "76.28 823".
Silk Road has label matrix starting with "66.28 066".
The second disc has a printed inner sleeve.
Soundtrack for the NHK TV series about the Silk Road.
A 2 LP compilation of Silk Road & Silk Road II.
No duration written for A6 on label.
No apparent etchings on Side D runout.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Other (Cat # disc 1): 051
Other (Cat # disc 2): 052
Label Code: LC 2099
Rights Society: GEMA
Matrix / Runout (Label side A): 76.28 823-01-1
Matrix / Runout (Label side B): 76.28 823-01-2
Matrix / Runout (Label side C): 76.28 823-02-1
Matrix / Runout (Label side D): 76.28 823-02-2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A): S-II 66.28 066-01-1/2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B): WL II 66.28 066-01-2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side C): ˩٨ II 66.28 066-02-1/2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side D, stamped): 66.28 066-02-2/2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, stamped): 66.28 066-01-1/2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, etched): S-II
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, stamped): 66.28 066-01-2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, etched): WL II
Matrix / Runout (Runout side C, stamped): 66.28 066-02-1/2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side C, etched): ˩٨ II
Salvador Dalí
vinyl LP front cover detail
photos by Y. Takara & S. Ohtsuka
detail photo of album cover by Styrous®
Masanori Takahashi, better known as Kitaro is a Japanese recording artist, composer, record producer, and arranger noted for his electronic-instrumental music. Although he is often associated with and regarded as one of the most prominent composers of new-age music, I refuse to put him in that category; he is much, much more.
vinyl LP back cover detail
photos by Y. Takara & S. Ohtsuka
detail photo of album back cover by Styrous®
This is one of very many vinyl LP albums of mine that belong in my special category, “Just the cover, ma’am” (link below).
I discovered Kitaro in the late seventies when he began his solo career; I remember the first album of his I found was Ten Kai.
I used the cut Beat from it for the first fashion show I did for Obiko in 1980 (link below), the art to wear boutique owned by Sandra Sakata in San Francisco (links below). The show was a tribute to Art Deco artist, Erté. I used some of the music from Ten Kai for the segment that featured the surreal fantasy designs by Kaisik Wong (link below) with stunning results.
date & photographer unknown
On the 14th of May in 1987 I produced a fashion show at the Marco Polo Showroom, in San Francisco, California, for JEANNE-MARC and Obiko to benefit the Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts in Berkeley; unfortunately, the Center closed later that year after the fashion show.
On the 7th of May, during
the production planning for the fashion show, Kitaro,
who was a friend of Sandra's, came to the Obiko showroom. I knew he was
goinig to be there, so, of course, couldn’t help but bring one of his
albums for him to autograph . . .
. . . which he graciously did!
Kitaro
was Sandra's favorite composer to use for her fashion shows and I utilized
his work in every one I could. The last show I produced for her and
Obiko was on September 4, 1997. She died two weeks later on September
21, 1997. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think of
her.
Tracklist:
Side 1:
Side 1:
A1 - Silk Road (Shichu No Michi) - 4:10
A2 - Bell Tower (Shoro) - 2:27
A3 - Heavenly Father (Tenchi Sohzo Shin) - 6:27
A4 - The Great River (Harukanaru Taiga) - 4:38
A5 - The Great Wall Of China (Chohjo) - 4:43
A6 - Flying Celestial Nymphs (Hiten)
A2 - Bell Tower (Shoro) - 2:27
A3 - Heavenly Father (Tenchi Sohzo Shin) - 6:27
A4 - The Great River (Harukanaru Taiga) - 4:38
A5 - The Great Wall Of China (Chohjo) - 4:43
A6 - Flying Celestial Nymphs (Hiten)
Side 2:
B1 - Silk Road Fantasy (Silk Road Genso) - 4:35
B2 - Shimmering Light (Hikari To Kage) - 3:14
B3 - Westbound (Nishi Ni Mukkatte) - 3:04
B4 - Time - (Toki No Nagare) - 3:29
B5 - Bodhisattva (Bosatsu) - 1:59
B6 - Everlasting Road (Towa No Michi) - 5:50
Side 3:
C1 - Peace (Shizukesa No Nakade) - 3:45
C2 - Takla Makan Desert (Takuramakan Sabaku) - 3:22
C3 - Eternal Spring (Inochi No Izumi) - 5:17
C4 - Silver Moon (Karakhoto No Genso) - 5:10
C5 - Magical Sand Dance (Shimpi Naru Suna No Mai) - 6:03
C2 - Takla Makan Desert (Takuramakan Sabaku) - 3:22
C3 - Eternal Spring (Inochi No Izumi) - 5:17
C4 - Silver Moon (Karakhoto No Genso) - 5:10
C5 - Magical Sand Dance (Shimpi Naru Suna No Mai) - 6:03
Side 4:
D1 - Year 40080 (40080 Nen) - 4:38
D2 - Time Travel (Jikukan) - 2:38
D3 - Reincarnation (Saisei) - 4:15
D4 - Dawning (Yoake) - 3:15
D5 - Tienshan (Tenzan) - 4:35
Companies, etc.
Copyright © – Canyon Records, Inc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Kuckuck Schallplatten
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – E.R.P. Musikverlag
Pressed By – Teldec-Press GmbH – 76.28 823
Recorded At – Kamakura Studio
Recorded At – Miasa Studios
Mixed At – Kamakura Studio –
Mixed At – Hitokuchizaka Studio
Mixed At – Sound Design Studio, Tokyo
Credits:
Composed By, Arranged By – Kitaro
Design – Hermann Wernhard, T. Shibayama*
Engineer – Kitaro
Engineer [Assistant] – A. Kaji*, S. Taya
Executive-Producer – Kimio Ariumi
Mixed By – Kitaro, Masayoshi Ohkawa*
Photography By – S. Ohtsuka*, Y. Takara
Producer – Takayo Nanri
Producer [Associate] – Moko Nanri
Programmed By [Synthesizers] – Kitaro
Synthesizer [Korg, Roland, Yamaha, Moog, Prophet], Acoustic Guitar, Drums, Percussion, Quena, Bells [Chanting], Mellotron, Santoor – Kitaro
Notes:
This version has label matrix numbers starting with "76.28 823".
Silk Road has label matrix starting with "66.28 066".
The second disc has a printed inner sleeve.
Soundtrack for the NHK TV series about the Silk Road.
A 2 LP compilation of Silk Road & Silk Road II.
No duration written for A6 on label.
No apparent etchings on Side D runout.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Other (Cat # disc 1): 051
Other (Cat # disc 2): 052
Label Code: LC 2099
Rights Society: GEMA
Matrix / Runout (Label side A): 76.28 823-01-1
Matrix / Runout (Label side B): 76.28 823-01-2
Matrix / Runout (Label side C): 76.28 823-02-1
Matrix / Runout (Label side D): 76.28 823-02-2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A): S-II 66.28 066-01-1/2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B): WL II 66.28 066-01-2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side C): ˩٨ II 66.28 066-02-1/2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side D, stamped): 66.28 066-02-2/2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, stamped): 66.28 066-01-1/2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, etched): S-II
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, stamped): 66.28 066-01-2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, etched): WL II
Matrix / Runout (Runout side C, stamped): 66.28 066-02-1/2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side C, etched): ˩٨ II
Kitaro – Silk Road
Label: Kuckuck – 051/052
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: Germany
Released: 1981
Genre: Electronic, Folk, World, & Country, Stage & Screen
Style: Ambient, New Age, Soundtrack
Label: Kuckuck – 051/052
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: Germany
Released: 1981
Genre: Electronic, Folk, World, & Country, Stage & Screen
Style: Ambient, New Age, Soundtrack
Viewfinder links:
July 3, 2013
20,000 vinyl LPs 22: Dave Greenslade ~ The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony
album art detail
art work by Patrick Woodroffe
photo of album cover by Styrous©
One of the reasons everyone loves living in the San Francisco Bay Area is the weather. It has one of the mildest, moderate temperature ranges in the world. When it's too cold (50º), those of us who live here say, wait two or three days, it'll warm up. When it's too hot (80º), ditto to cool off. Well, we are now in the sixth day of an extremely rare heat wave of 100° plus temperatures in some parts of the bay area. And there are those who still insist there is no global warming. Yeah! Right!
This event brought to my mind many of the dire predictions in music of the destruction of our planet through war and climate change caused by our leaders indifference to their actions. From the first song I was aware of, "Eve of Destruction" (1965) by Barry McGuire, Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" (1970), with it's refrain, "They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot," and the Manfred Mann's Earth Band song, "Messin'" (1973), to use only a few examples, they've warned us of what we are doing to our world and the consequences of our actions.
The warning of global destruction reached the height of sophistication with the 1979 concept album conceived and written by Patrick Woodroffe with music by Dave Greenslade, The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony (the 5 books of the origin of the universe).
With this album Greenslade abandoned his prog rock background. He took a que from Klaus Schulze and early 70's Tangerine Dream and brilliantly utilized synthesizers to create surrealistic music that was totally unique and chronicles the demise of an indeterminate planet (but read Earth).
The melodies have an amazing range of styles: an echoey, delicate, almost fairy-like sonnet, Glass; Three Brides, a quiet minuet; The Minstrel, a lively tarantella; Vivat Regina, a joyous, exuberant ode to life; the Barcarole, with it's gentle, almost reggae beat; the dreamy, other worldly closing piece, The Tiger and the Dove . . .
. . . as well as heart-pounding, driving instrumentals. My favorites are a pair of numbers, Mischief and War. They are actually one song with Mischief, a strong, march-like beat that plows right into War which becomes a heavy, thundering, metallic-sounding dynamo that is quite an experience to hear.
Exile, is an eerie lament, featuring vocoder, bemoaning a world with a long-lifeless, motionless sea, "There is no air, the sea is dead".
The LP record album is actually a 12 ½ inch square hardback book with amazing art work by Patrick Woodroffe. Each and every time I look through the book I see something new I've never noticed before. Unfortunately, with the CD edition, due to it's diminutive size, the subtleties are not readily observable without a magnifying glass; also, the CD version does not have the impact the 12" LP format has (another instance to bemoan the death of the vinyl LP).
alien
alphabet designed by Patrick Woodroffe
The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony
art work by Patrick Woodroffe
Love makes its appearance . . .
Track listings:
Side 1
"Introit" – 4:05
"Moondance" – 3:10
"Beltempest" – 2.:41
"Glass" – 3:02
"Three Brides" † – 5:56
Side 2
"Birds & Bats & Dragonflies" ‡ – 3:48
"Nursery Hymn" ♦ – 3:32
"The Minstrel" ‡ – 2:42
"Fresco/Kashrinn" – 2:24
"Barcarole" † – 3:51
"Dry Land" – 3:54
Side 3
"Forest Kingdom" † – 3:53
"Vivat Regina" – 3:44
"Scream but Not Heard" – 2:57
"Mischief" ‡ – 5:36
"War" †‡ – 3:06
Side 4
"Lament for the Sea" † – 3:08
"Miasma Generator" † – 5.23
"Exile" – 2.33
"Jubilate" – 3.00
"The Tiger and the Dove" – 5.35
All titles were composed and played by Dave Greenlade except percussion played by Phil Collins on tracks marked with † and by John Lingwood on tracks marked with ‡. Vocals on track ♦ Nursery Hymn by Kate Greenslade (age 2 years and 6 months).
Dave Greenslade played Polymoog, Prophet 5, Roland Rs202, Yamaha Cs60 Synth, Yamaha Cs80 Synth, Yamaha Cp70b Piano, Arp Explorer, Arp Omni, Cat Synth, Church Organ, Crumar Stringman, Hohner Clavinet, Kitten Synth, Mellotron 400, Minimoog], Vibraphone, Tubular Bells, and Vocoder [Sennheiser] Programmed By [Sds Drum Synth 3].
Links to music on YouTube:
The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony:
Complete album
Mischief/War
Jubilate
The Tiger and the Dove
Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
Joni Mitchel - Big Yellow Taxi
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Messin'
Links to the amazing art of Patrick Woodroffe can be seen here
This is one of the albums I taped and listened to over and over for the last 30 years so the records were only played twice and are in pristine condition. Even though I bought the CD version many years ago, because of the incredible artwork of the book, when I finally do sell my record collection this album will not go with it.
My many thanks to Dave Greenslade and Patrick Woodroffe for decades of listening and looking pleasure.
Styrous© ~ July 3, 2013
This event brought to my mind many of the dire predictions in music of the destruction of our planet through war and climate change caused by our leaders indifference to their actions. From the first song I was aware of, "Eve of Destruction" (1965) by Barry McGuire, Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" (1970), with it's refrain, "They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot," and the Manfred Mann's Earth Band song, "Messin'" (1973), to use only a few examples, they've warned us of what we are doing to our world and the consequences of our actions.
The warning of global destruction reached the height of sophistication with the 1979 concept album conceived and written by Patrick Woodroffe with music by Dave Greenslade, The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony (the 5 books of the origin of the universe).
(click on any image to see slideshow)
The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony album cover
art work by Patrick Woodroffe
photo of album cover by Styrous©
With this album Greenslade abandoned his prog rock background. He took a que from Klaus Schulze and early 70's Tangerine Dream and brilliantly utilized synthesizers to create surrealistic music that was totally unique and chronicles the demise of an indeterminate planet (but read Earth).
The melodies have an amazing range of styles: an echoey, delicate, almost fairy-like sonnet, Glass; Three Brides, a quiet minuet; The Minstrel, a lively tarantella; Vivat Regina, a joyous, exuberant ode to life; the Barcarole, with it's gentle, almost reggae beat; the dreamy, other worldly closing piece, The Tiger and the Dove . . .
The Tiger and the Dove
art work by Patrick Woodroffe
photo of album cover by Styrous©
. . . as well as heart-pounding, driving instrumentals. My favorites are a pair of numbers, Mischief and War. They are actually one song with Mischief, a strong, march-like beat that plows right into War which becomes a heavy, thundering, metallic-sounding dynamo that is quite an experience to hear.
War
art work by Patrick Woodroffe
photo of album by Styrous©
Exile, is an eerie lament, featuring vocoder, bemoaning a world with a long-lifeless, motionless sea, "There is no air, the sea is dead".
Exile
"There is no air, the sea is Dead"
art work by Patrick Woodroffe
photo of album by Styrous©
The LP record album is actually a 12 ½ inch square hardback book with amazing art work by Patrick Woodroffe. Each and every time I look through the book I see something new I've never noticed before. Unfortunately, with the CD edition, due to it's diminutive size, the subtleties are not readily observable without a magnifying glass; also, the CD version does not have the impact the 12" LP format has (another instance to bemoan the death of the vinyl LP).
The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony album cover back
art work by Patrick Woodroffe
photo of album cover back by Styrous©
Woodroffe created a whole fantasy world complete with an alien
alphabet. The script he invented is fascinating.
photo of album by Styrous©
It is ingenious how his art work and Greenslade's music are so well matched. The book is rich with illustrations that are magnificent and exceptionally beautiful . . .
art work by Patrick Woodroffe
photo of album by Styrous©
photo of album by Styrous©
. . . and weird . . .
photo of album by Styrous©
photo of album by Styrous©
photo of album by Styrous©
The story: 'Pentateuch' concerns the discovery of an abandoned spacecraft drifting in space, and the project to decipher the ideograms
in the pentateuch 'document' discovered within it.
alien space ship design by Patrick Woodroffe
photo of album by Styrous©
Love makes its appearance . . .
photo of album by Styrous©
and, of course, there are lots of space ships
photo of album by Styrous©
The book is a
retelling of the document, as one of our modern day archiologists
might very well translate the contents of a Babylonian tablet or an Egyptian papyrus scroll. The story is told in 21 tracks on two vinyl records.
Track listings:
Side 1
"Introit" – 4:05
"Moondance" – 3:10
"Beltempest" – 2.:41
"Glass" – 3:02
"Three Brides" † – 5:56
Side 2
"Birds & Bats & Dragonflies" ‡ – 3:48
"Nursery Hymn" ♦ – 3:32
"The Minstrel" ‡ – 2:42
"Fresco/Kashrinn" – 2:24
"Barcarole" † – 3:51
"Dry Land" – 3:54
Side 3
"Forest Kingdom" † – 3:53
"Vivat Regina" – 3:44
"Scream but Not Heard" – 2:57
"Mischief" ‡ – 5:36
"War" †‡ – 3:06
Side 4
"Lament for the Sea" † – 3:08
"Miasma Generator" † – 5.23
"Exile" – 2.33
"Jubilate" – 3.00
"The Tiger and the Dove" – 5.35
All titles were composed and played by Dave Greenlade except percussion played by Phil Collins on tracks marked with † and by John Lingwood on tracks marked with ‡. Vocals on track ♦ Nursery Hymn by Kate Greenslade (age 2 years and 6 months).
Dave Greenslade played Polymoog, Prophet 5, Roland Rs202, Yamaha Cs60 Synth, Yamaha Cs80 Synth, Yamaha Cp70b Piano, Arp Explorer, Arp Omni, Cat Synth, Church Organ, Crumar Stringman, Hohner Clavinet, Kitten Synth, Mellotron 400, Minimoog], Vibraphone, Tubular Bells, and Vocoder [Sennheiser] Programmed By [Sds Drum Synth 3].
left: Dave Greenslade right: Patrick Woodroffe
photos by Alan R. Imberg
Links to music on YouTube:
The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony:
Complete album
Mischief/War
Jubilate
The Tiger and the Dove
Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
Joni Mitchel - Big Yellow Taxi
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Messin'
Links to the amazing art of Patrick Woodroffe can be seen here
This is one of the albums I taped and listened to over and over for the last 30 years so the records were only played twice and are in pristine condition. Even though I bought the CD version many years ago, because of the incredible artwork of the book, when I finally do sell my record collection this album will not go with it.
My many thanks to Dave Greenslade and Patrick Woodroffe for decades of listening and looking pleasure.
Styrous© ~ July 3, 2013
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