Kitaro
Everything we have written about Kitaro: the listening guide, then each record in release order.
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Kitaro: where to start
The man who took the Berlin sequence, gave it a melody, and sold it to Asia. Five records, in order, and why the famous one is the right place to begin.
Oasis
In 1979 the sales copy on this record named its cover painter before its musician. Kitaro's third album, made alone in a Kamakura workroom.
Silk Road
In the spring of 1980 a documentary composer insisted his music go out in stereo. That demand made the record, and it made Kitaro.
Silver Cloud
In 1983 the obi counted four years from Oasis. Recorded in a Nagano workroom, sixteen instruments, one name: Kitaro at the peak of his Japanese years.