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KITARO The Instrumentalist

2007-12-07T06:05:00.000+07:00

Biography

Long recognized as one of the most acclaimed recording artist in the Orient and America, Kitaro has always taken his music far beyond the borders of his native Japan. As a composer and multi-instrumentalist, he has reached millions of people on every continent with his stellar recordings.

Though his public presence has always been cloaked in the tradition and mysticism of the culture into which he was born, Kitaro's music does not yield to boundaries or national categories. Perhaps,as one writer notes, it is his "honesty and consistencythat people seem to trust" that keeps him in the forefront of modern music. It is, as another suggests, his compositions,which weave "a boundless playworld of a thousand pictures. . . a web of gentleness and wonderment."

Since the early 70's, Kitaro's music has been a reflection of a consciousness that displays a reverence for nature and for the world as humanity's natural habitat. "Nature inspires me," he says. "To me, some songs are like clouds, some are like water."

The beauty of nature was part of Kitaro's earliest days. He was born into a Buddhist/Shintoist farming family in Toyohashi Prefecture in Central Japan in 1953. His rural youth gave him an early feel for the simplicity and grandeur of nature. "I found a place in nature when I was very young," he recalls. "And spirituality, I was always a universalist in my outlook."

As a high school student, he discovered the electric guitar. Completely self-taught, he fell in love with American Rhythm and Blues. Kitaro says, "I love classical music, which is like pictures, and rock music, to me, means power and energy. We have music so we can feel the Universe." With some classmates, he formed the rock group Albatross, which featured his early poetry set to music. In the early 1970's, at which time he switched from guitar to keyboards, he recorded with a group called The Far East Family Band. He recalls, "I had switched over to keyboards and we were doing a rough form of the kind of impressionistic music that I would later start playing."

"I remember when I first created the wave sound. I could create an ocean, a winter coastline, a summer beach." The Japanese became fascinated by Kitaro's music and the critics referred to it as 'sound pictures' and 'mind music.' In 1980, he created the music to Silk Road, an hour-long documentary about the overland trade route from Europe to Japan. The Japanese National Television program was so well received that it evolved into a series that ran on Japanese television for five years.

For many years, a small and devoted audience in America, through albums imported from Japan and Europe, knew Kitaro. By 1985, that audience widened considerably when Geffen Records simultaneously released a number of Kitaro compliations.

In 1986, came Tenku. The title, which means "Heavenly Sky," reflects the open air environment of Kitaro's home studio - a 200 year old farmhouse in the Japanese Alps, where the album was made. On the opening track, a child's laughter is heard. The album's theme concerns images and impressions of childhood.

In the fall of 1987, The Light of the Spirit was released, co-produced with Grateful Dead Percussionists Mickey Hart, a long time Kitaro admirer. Thematically, The Light of the Spirit includes Kitaro's vision of life, death and rebirth, and continues his musical exploration of the life cycle that started with Tenku. Kitaro earned his first Grammy nomination for "The Field" in the category of best new age performance.

Later that year, Kitaro toured the U.S. and played to sold-out venues in many cites, including New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles and Atlanta and was often required to add a second night to satisfy demand. A young Japanese woman, after one of the concerts, remarked, "his music is like the heartbeat of an unborn child, you can feel it."

In 1992, Kitaro became even more accessible to pop culture in the U.S. by a collaborating with Yes' Jon Anderson for the Dream album. And later that year, was enlisted to score the music for Oliver Stone's final chapter in his epic trilogy about the Vietnam War, "Heaven and Earth". The soundtrack to this critically acclaimed feature earned Kitaro a Golden Globe Award.

In the following years, Kitaro earned a number of Grammy Nominations for Mandala, An Enchanted Evening and Gaia Onbashira. The accolades were made official when after an amazing six nominations, Kitaro captured the prestigious Grammy Award in the 'Best New Age Album' category for Thinking of You. Kitaro notes, "The Grammy Award was always an incredible dream and to actually win was truly a dream come true."

In 2001, Kitaro was commissioned to record the accompanying soundtrack to the NHK special, "Messages from the Past" and inspired the music for Kitaro's seventh Grammy Nominated album, Ancient.

Released earlier this year, An Ancient Journey takes us on a campaign, which began with his previous release, Ancient. Merging the finest of Eastern and Western culture, Kitaro invites you to experience the life and spirit of the world's ancient people.

Kitaro is an original and universal soul who has become master of the wordless lyric. Writers have hinted at the healing properties of his 'sound pictures'. Kitaro has acknowledged that his purpose is to calm the inner person: "the wars of the world don't come from outer space. People create them, people who have a war within themselves. I want to create music that eases that war within."

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2007-07-25T18:12:00.000+07:00

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Travis Will Post Hundreds of Songs on MySpace

2007-07-25T17:53:00.000+07:00

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	Travis Will Post Hundreds of Songs on MySpace Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:18:09 Yes, you will have less friends on MySpace than Travis has songs

Before the Fray, Keane, and Coldplay, British band Travis led the earnest rock movement. And with The Boy With No Name due out May 7th, the band hopes to return to the forefront of soundtracking primetime TV dramas. But along with the songs available on the forthcoming album, Travis is also promising to make "hundreds" of additional songs available on their MySpace page.

"We've released 130 songs in A-sides, B-sides and album tracks since we started out," singer Fran Healy said. "Now there's finally a place where we can put up four brand new tracks a week that people haven't heard before. We've been doing that for 12 weeks and we've still got hundreds of songs to put up. We might have to slow it down a bit, but we can pretty much go on indefinitely!"

The Boy With No Name was produced by Nigel Godrich, who has also worked with Beck and Radiohead.

Travis (band)

2007-07-25T17:22:00.000+07:00

Travis are a Scottish band from Glasgow, comprising Fran Healy (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Dougie Payne (bass, backing vocals, occasional lead vocals), Andy Dunlop (lead guitar, banjo, keyboards, backing vocals) and Neil Primrose (drums, percussion). Travis has twice been awarded British album of the year at the annual BRIT Awards, and are often credited with having paved the way for bands such as Coldplay, Keane and Snow Patrol. They have released five studio albums, beginning with their debut, Good Feeling, in 1997. Their fifth album, The Boy with No Name, was released on 7 May 2007.

By: Wikipedia

Ad Placement Optimization

2007-07-25T14:53:00.000+07:00

As you may know, custom channels are a great way to track the performance of individual ad units on your pages. Starting this week, with just a few extra steps you can make your site more attractive to advertisers by allowing them to target these channels as ad placements. Creating ad placements for more visible and desirable ad locations on your site increases their value to advertisers using site targeting and encourages those advertisers to bid more.

By: Sugasm

Adsense Google

2007-07-25T14:05:00.000+07:00

Kabar gembira nich buat yang ikutan adsense, mulai sekarang kamu bisa masang 3 link unit untuk setiap halaman web/blog kamu. Sebelumnya dalam satu halaman cuma boleh 1 link unit dan 3 ads unit, 1 search, dan masing-masing 1 referal button untuk 3 jenis referal, nich keterangan aslinya:

The other noteworthy update: now you can place up to three link units on a page. As we’ve noted in the past, link units are a great way to provide relevant, user-friendly ads in hard-to-fit locations on your site. With the new opportunity to place three link units — and the plethora of link unit formats — we hope you’ll find great ways of incorporating this unique ad format on your site

Jadi bisa besar kesempatan untuk di klik oleh visitor nich, dan yang pasti bisa nambah besar pula pendapatan Adsense nya.

By: isnaini dot com

TURN

2007-07-25T11:41:00.000+07:00

I want to see what people saw
I want to feel like I felt before
I want to see the kingdom come
I want to feel forever young
I want to sing
To sing my song
I want to live in a world where I belong
I want to live
I will survive

And I believe that it won't be very long
If we turn, turn, turn, turn, turn
Then we might learn
So where's the stars?
Up in the sky
And what's the moon?
A big balloon
We'll never know unless we grow
There's so much world outside the door
I want to sing
To sing my song
I want to live in a world where I'll be strong
I want to live
I will survive
And I believe that it won't be very long
If we turn, turn, turn, turn
And if we turn, turn, turn, turn
Then we might learn
Turn, turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
And if we turn, turn, turn, turn
Then we might learn
Learn to turn

by: Travis

Painting Love in The Heart

2007-07-18T21:23:00.001+07:00

diatas kekotoran dunia
engkau tetap diagungkan
didalam kebohongan pun
engkau tetap dipuja

disaat kekerasan melanda
hanya engkau yang mampu meredam
disaat kesedihan menghantui pun
hanya engkau yang mampu menciptakan senyum

disaat kegelapan membutakan hati
engkaulah yang dapat memberikan cahaya
disaat kesesatan menutupi jalan
hanya engkaulah yang dapat menuntun

sungguh besar artimu dalam kehidupan
sungguh indah lukisanmu di setiap mata
bagiku hanya engkau yang mampu
meredam segalanya

dan ku rasa semua manusia memilikimu
terlukis indah dihati kecilnya
lukisan itu yang akan slalu dipandangnya
bertuliskan CINTA...

This Blog Rated

2007-07-17T21:30:00.000+07:00

waktu gw browsing malang melintang kemana-mana ga sengaja nemuin website yang menyediakan widget tentang seberapa aman web kita untuk anak di bawah umur dan ternyata Tempat Atret dinyatakan aman untuk semua umur, he..he.. jadi seneng.

Saat - Saat Yang Indah Bersamamu

2007-07-12T13:23:00.000+07:00

Hari-hari terus berlalu dan terus berlalu
sampai akhirnya ku menemukanmu
dan kutemukan kebahagian bersamamu
dalam melalui perjalanan hidup ini

Perlahan demi perlahan
kau lukis gambaran indah dengan penuh warna di hatiku
gambaran dimana sebuah perjalanan indah
yang takkan pernah terhenti
sampai kita tiba di dunia lain yang lebih indah

Betapa ku sadari arti dari dirimu
kurasakan kehadiranmu
dapat mengalahkan segala kehampaan hidupku
dan ku rasakan sentuhan-sentuhan hangat darimu
dengan penuh ketulusan hati
disaat aku letih dan tak berdaya
membuat segenap kekuatanku kembali
untuk tetap mengarungi kehidupan ini

Cintaku...
janganlah pernah kau pergi dariku
tetaplah kau bersanding dihatiku
janganlah pernah kau hancurkan lukisan
saat-saat yang indah bersamamu dihatiku
Demimu, Demiku, Demi kita berdua
selamanya...

The Return in Silence

2007-06-25T13:39:00.000+07:00

Dibalik kesunyianku ada kesunyian lain, penghuninya adalah kesendirianku yang berkerumun seperti pasar pasar dan kesenyapanku bising oleh suara-suara.
Terlalu muda dan gelisah aku mencari-cari di atas kesunyian. Suara-suara dari lembah nan jauh masing terngiang di telingaku, dan bayangannya menghalangi jalanku sehingga aku tak dapat pergi.
Diantara bukit-bukit itu ada sebuah hutan yang amat elok, penghuninya adalah kedamaianku dari angin puyuh dan keelokanku, dialah khayalan.
Terlalu muda dan liara kau mencari hutan sui itu. Rasa asin darah masih melekat dibibir, busur serta anak panah nenek moyangku masih kugenggam namun aku tak mampu pergi.
dibalik diriku yang terkurung ini, hidup diriku yang bebas, yang baginya mimpi-mimpiku adalah medan perang diwaktu malam dan hasrat-hasratku adalah tulang-tulang yang gemeretak.
terlalu muda dan kejam untuk aku menjadi diri yang bebas.
Dan bagaimana aku menjadi diri yang bebas bila aku tak membunuh diriku yang terkurung ini, atau bila semua manusia tak bebas?
Dan bagaimana daunku bisa terbang bernyanyi bersama angin bila akarku masih menancap dalam tanah?

The Meaning of Life

2007-06-06T11:10:00.000+07:00

Kehidupan lebih tua usianya dari segala benda hidup, seperti keindahan yang sudah ada sebelum benda yang indah lahir dimuka bumi, dan seperti kebenaran yang sudah ada sebelum ia di ungkapkan.

Kehidupan bernyanyi di kesunyian kita, dan bermimpi dalam keterpurukan kita. Bahkan ketika kita terhempas dan karam, kehidupan tetap tinggi bertahta. Dan ketika kita dengan sedu-sedan, kehidupan tersenyum sepanjang hari, dan tetap bebas ketika kita terkunci dalam rantai.

Sering kali kita menjuluki kehidupan dengan nama yang menyakitkan, tapi hanya ketika kita sendiri sedang gelap dan sakit. dan kita meratapi kekosongan dan kepapaanya, tapi hanya ketika jiwa kita lepas tak tentu rimba, dan hati sedang mabuk oleh tekanan diri.

Kehidupan itu dalam, tinggi dan luas, dan bahkan ujung pandang matamu hanya bisa menyaksikan telapak kakinya, meskipun ia dekat, dan meskipun hanya nafas dari nafasmu yang dapat menjangkau hatinya, bayangan dari bayanganmu menerpa wajahnya, dan hanya sayup tangismu yang paling pilu dapat menjadi musim semi dan musim gugur didadanya.

Kehidupan itu terselubung lagi tersembunyi, seperti jiwamu yang agung juga terselubung dan tersembunyi. Namun jika kehidupan berbicara, segala angin menjadi kata-kata, dan ketika ia berbicara lagi, senyum dibibirmu dan peluh dimatamu juga akan menjadi kata-kata. Jika ia bernyanyi, segala tuli mendengar dan mempercayai, dan ketika ia berjalan, segala buta akan dapat menyaksikannya dan mengikuti dengan kagum dan keheranan.

Pagi Yang Menegangkan

2007-06-05T13:47:00.000+07:00

Tadi pagi gw brangkat kerja sengaja datang siang soalnya ada urusan yang harus diselesaikan dulu, bgitu meluncur ke kantor awan yang memang dari pagi tidak menunjukan kecerahan mendadak gelap gulita gw tetap coba tenang soalnya gw bawa motor takut kehujanan, sambil dengerin lagu2 di Prambors gw nikmatin aja perjalanan ke kantor, tiba2 ada pemberitahuan bahwa di Ancol hujan besar, memang langit terlihat lebih gelap dan awan berjalan dengan cepat, tapi gw berusaha tetap tenang walaupun angin dingin sudah terasa menembus jaket, dan tiba2 ternyata langit mulai menurunkan butiran2 air yang lembut dan lama2 menjadi kasar, gw putusin tekad gw untuk tetap melaju dengan kencang dan salip2 diantara Bus dan Mobil2 mewah di jakarta, allhamdulillah tiba2 langit tidak jadi menurunkan butiran2 airnya dan sampailah gw dikantor dengan nafas lega, begitu sampai diruangan gw tengok ke jendela langit mulai menurunkan butiran2 airnya lagi, kasihan si kuda besiku karna dah ga dapet atret di basement jadi gw atret di luar mandi hujan dech dia :)

Disco Lazy Time - Nidji

2007-05-28T19:52:00.000+07:00

Disco Yuk....:)
Tampilkan blog anda disini

Kumerindu - Pas ft. Bunga

2007-05-28T19:38:00.000+07:00

Betotan Basnya Bro...
Tampilkan blog anda disini

Rama - Bertahan

2007-05-28T15:36:00.000+07:00

Waktu gw lagi jalan ma ... di bis ada yang lg ngamen bawain nich lagu, sambil gw dengerin ntu lagu truz gw bilang ma ... "coba denger lagu itu" entah dia mnyadari pa ga tiba2 dia mandang gw & langsung merangkul gw:)

Selembar Kertas Seputih Salju

2007-05-25T11:23:00.000+07:00

Berkatalah selembar kertas seputih salju, "Aku diciptakan penuh kesucian, dan aku akan tetap suci selamanya. Lebih baik terbakar menjadi abu dari pada menderita sentuhan kegelapan, atau kekotoran menodaiku."

Botol tinta mendengar apa yang telah dikatakan kertas, dan tertawa terbahak-bahak dengan hati diliputi kegelapan; tetapi ia tak pernah berani mendekatinya. Pensil berwarna-warni juga mendengar, dan mereka juga tak pernag mengganggunya.

Kertas seputih salju itu tetap murni dan suci selamanya, murni, suci - dan kosong.

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Cinta Yang Lain - Ungu ft. Chrisye (alm)

2007-05-23T13:31:00.000+07:00

nih lagu paling gw suka udah enak didengar dan slalu membuat gw setia ma ...:)

Becandanya Parah

2007-05-22T18:49:00.000+07:00

Nich Orang bcandanya parah BGT, Bisa lo bayangin ga gmana klo itu sampe terjadi sama lo2... :)

Membelah Tubuh Manusia

2007-05-22T18:19:00.000+07:00

IPANK - Ada yang Hilang

2007-04-24T13:42:00.000+07:00

Ipang BIP
(Soundtrack Realita Cinta Rock & Roll)

aku hanya bisa terdiam
melihat kau pergi
dari sisiku, dari sampingku
tinggalkan aku
seakan semuanya yang pernah terjadi
tak lagi kau rasa

“cinta itu bisa nyenengin banget
tapi juga bisa sangat nyakitin”

masih adakah tentang aku di hatimu
yang kau rasakan? coba kau rasakan
mudahkah bagimu untuk hapuskan
semua kenangan bersama denganku

tak pernah sedikitpun aku bayangkan
betapa hebatnya cinta yang kau tanamkan
hingga waktu beranjak pergi
kau mampu hancurkan hatiku

ada yang hilang dari perasaanku
yang terlanjur sudah kuberikan padamu
ternyata aku tak berarti tanpamu
berharap kau tetap di sini
berharap dan berharap lagi

Lukisan Hidup

2007-04-23T09:14:00.000+07:00

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9th Classic Rock

2007-04-05T11:45:00.000+07:00