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Spiritual Garden
Kitaro
Spiritual Garden
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, New Age, Pop, Rock
 
After only two volumes, Kitaro has taken a break from his Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai series, based on his travels to the 88 temples of Shikoku. Those temple journeys must have been tiring, because Spiritual Garden is Kitaro ...  more »

     
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All Artists: Kitaro
Title: Spiritual Garden
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Domo Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 2/21/2006
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, New Age, Pop, Rock
Styles: Ambient, Meditation, Progressive, Electronic
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 794017305028, 079401730502

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After only two volumes, Kitaro has taken a break from his Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai series, based on his travels to the 88 temples of Shikoku. Those temple journeys must have been tiring, because Spiritual Garden is Kitaro at his laziest and haziest. It's not just the somnambulant melodies, predictable sample-and-hold gurgles, and whooping Korg synthesizer lines that make it uninspired. Kitaro himself seems bored, barely bothered to develop anything beyond rudimentary pentatonic scales, crudely arranged drone pads, and tinkling bells. In the 1970s, Kitaro brought melody to space music and carried that through to ambitious works of orchestral world music on albums like 1990's Kojiki. But to listen to Spiritual Garden is to hear someone for whom time is moving backwards, oblivious to more than the quarter century of space, new age, and ambient music released since his debut. Whether it's the Pink Floyd space guitar at the end of "Sunlight Dancing" or the native flute, acoustic guitar, and burbling brook of "Wind and Water," Kitaro is locked in a parody of new age music, his early inspiration now worn into cliché. Fans of the synthesist should find a lot of familiar territory here, and well they should. The same music is already in their Kitaro collection. --John Diliberto

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CD Reviews

Simple, Yet Engrossing
Bryan Rosengarten | Seminole, FL | 07/09/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)

"I read many of the reviews posted here that slam Kitaro for not "moving forward" with this release. Moving forward? Does everything have to be completely different from something else? Isn't the journey not only looking at the "what will be", but also at the "past"? Although I might be completely wrong, I think Kitaro was reflecting on his "past" when he recorded this album (even if doing so unconsciously). Yes, it is very similar to some of his early works. It's simple, yet complex. It's mellow, yet very engrossing. Personally, I find it conducive to meditation, thinking and part of my own spiritual journey. It took my then very stressful morning and brought it down to an amazingly mellow stance. I am anything, but stressed after listening to "Spiritual Garden". If you like Kitaro's earlier works you will enjoy this. If you are looking for more orchestral pieces, you will not care for it."