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Release Date: 04-10-2005
Label: Domo Records
Catalog Number: DM73014-2
Barcode: 794017301426
Musical Style: New Age
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Theme From Silk Road  | 7 | Taklamakan Desert |
| 2 | Bell Tower | 8 | Load of Wind |
| 3 | Flying Celestial Nymphs | 9 | Caravansary |
| 4 | Mirage | 10 | Moon-Star |
| 5 | Linden | 11 | Pray At Xian/Mercury |
| 6 | 40800 | ||
Description:
Best of Silk Road was written as the soundtrack to the long-running Japanese television series Silk Road, the music blends Kitaro's influences from traditional Japanese music and the romantic Western tradition. The documentary, about the ancient Silk Road that links Europe to China, became one of Japan's most famous television series.
A growing international contingent of fans grew quickly to admire Kitaro's soundtrack as a masterpiece for its serene and seductive arrangements, gentle melodies and combination of lush, majestic textures. The Silk Road music became a phenomenon that identified Kitaro by millions worldwide.
This soundtrack features a previously unreleased version of the 'Theme from Silk Road' as well as 'Pray at Xian/Mercury', which was recorded live in Xian, China during Kitaro's 2002 Silk Road tour.
Biography:
The Grammy® and Golden Globe-winning Kitaro has garnered global acclaim over a more than three decade long career with a signatuze sound and a pioneering fusion of cultures, techniques and spheres of consciousness that are truly his own. Universally acknowledged as the founding architect of new age music, Kitaro's various sound collaborations and resonant, multi-textured compositions truly defy the constraints of any genre.
