Tìm đến chút “thanh bình” trong một tối ngày cuối tuần với Kitaro và Silk road, một bài instrumental hay đến lạ 
. Hồi cấp 3, thử tập tễnh nghe Kitaro từ một đĩa CD mua lại từ đứa bạn (chắc nó không nghe hợp ông này), mê cực 3 bài đầu trong CD: “Mandala”, “Dance of Sarasvati” và bài thứ 3 ghi là “Main Title – The Soong Sisters”, đến độ dùng bài này để nghe “thư giãn” trước giờ đi thi tốt nghiệp, hehe… Chất mơ ảo trong bài số 3, tiếng chuông chùa vọng từ đọan đầu khiến lòng nhẹ lạ… (dù sau đó là nhạc cũng hoành tráng lắm).
Cơ bản là thế, nhưng ở đây xin chủ yếu là nói về Silk road, bài thứ 5 trong đĩa nhạc này và được đánh lại trong buổi diễn live ở USA, album “An Enchanted Evening”. Dù sao trong 4 albums của Kitaro mà tớ nghe thì thích cái Enchanted… này nhất, dù trên mạng nó chỉ được rate 3.5/5 
. Xem VCD của buổi này mới thấy ông Kitaro này giỏi dễ sợ, đánh cả organ, guitar, trống và kèn (bài Heaven & Earth)
, thế mà nghe đâu ông ấy không biết ghi nhạc theo kiểu “chính qui 5 dòng kẻ”. Không đủ sức để viết thêm về ông này, nhưng có người nghe nhạc Kitaro = buồn ngủ, có người xem đó là thứ nhạc thiền với chất Á đông rõ rệt, hoặc gọi đó thứ music of mind bởi khi nghe và nhắm mắt để đi theo nhưng hình ảnh vẽ ra trong đầu sẽ thấy chút gì thú vị 
(như bài Dance of Sarasvati và cuộc sống trên sa mạc chẳng han 
, hoặc tiếng suối, gió…
). VN ta thì chắc ít nhiều đều đã nghe nhạc của ông này, vì bài Matsuri thì hay được dùng trong các buổi biểu diễn thời trang, hoặc Heaven and Earth thì có đến mấy fim trên VTV3 dùng .
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chu Nghia dao nay cham blog nhi. Dong y voi chu la nhac Kitaro nghe da thiet, hinh nhu may dua cho tao nghe thi phai, hoi cap 3 do. Co cai bai gi do nghe so*. da~ man luon, nua dem dang nghe so*. qua phai thuc day tat, hahaha. Phim kiem hiep hong kong, gan nhu phim nao cung co nhac cua Kitaro. Saturday January 20, 2007 – 01:48pm (CST) dear, i’m glad that you had a good weekend evening, esp. with music. but pls pardon me for disagreeing with you as follows: Kitaro’s music, in its outlook, seems to have mysteriously and spiritually (ta^m linh) Oriental characteristics; but actually, it’s an alluring disguise. I would suggest a comparison with {the martial arts on action movies vs. the *true* martial arts that are practised in genuine dojos or pagodas}. His music, in a sense, is a *dangerous disguise* of the appreciation of the Orient and the nature. I may include some more convincing reasons for my judgement. He *overuses* digital sounds and synthesizers to model the nature and the mystical feelings; but come on, it’s a wrong approach. If you’ve ever listened to a strong wind blown in a dark&cold night, or imagined urself in a winding desert, it shld be a feeling that is *totally different* from his music. The same applies to other features of nature that he tried to model. Besides, he didn’t go to university, his musical training is very informal; he may play several instruments, but it doesn’t mean that he played them well & in a correct manner. Yanni’s music is better to listen to. Yanni played with prestigious orchestra (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra), good musicians and conductors, and was allowed to perform in sacred places like Forbidden City (China) & Taj Mahal (India). Sunday January 21, 2007 – 07:43am (SGT) Hi`, but after all, just want to say hello and take good care 😀 Sunday January 21, 2007 – 07:44am (SGT) 
hehe, se co dip noi ve Yanni. Tao cung rat khoai buoi bieu dien cua ong nay o Greek (que huong ong i’ thi phai). Ma` Yanni cung khong biet ghi nhac bang “chinh qui 5 dong ke” thi phai :D. Giong Quantum physics de cap, dai loai “you choose what you want to see” de nhan manh vai tro cua observer :”> (hehe, dang hung thu’ ve quantum physic, thong cam), co the nhac Kitaro cung dzi. Se co dip noi tip ve comment cua Hieu galoa` khi noi den nhac Pink Floyd. @all: really thank for your comments 🙂 😛 Sunday January 21, 2007 – 10:55pm (SGT)
you may be right about Kitaro music, Hieu. However, who says you have to go to university, to have formal training, and to play with prestigious orchestras to play music well??????? I’m not a huge fan of Kitaro, and I also don’t understand his music and listened to very few songs. But “If you’ve ever listened to a strong wind blown in a dark&cold night, or imagined urself in a winding desert, it shld be a feeling that is *totally different* from his music.” Your listening to the wind and your feeling for it should be different from that of his or that of Yanni, for that matter. He used one way to express his feeling/though, so did Yanni. You may not like his way, and you may like Yanni’s way more. But I don’t think it’s appropriate to call Kitaro’s music “dangerous disguise”. Nghia: looking forward to your blog on Yanni and Pink Floyd. I was drunk the other night, and listened to “Comfortably Numb”, it was a great feeling!!! Sunday January 21, 2007 – 11:37am (CST)
this is not the right place, but since you said you’re excited about quantum physics, I can’t help it. This is an article about a talk by Sir Michael Atiyah, http://www.ams.org/notices/200606/comm-walker.pdf. I bet you and Hieu will find it interesting. Let me know what you guys think. Sunday January 21, 2007 – 11:45am (CST) “You choose what you want to see”: nice correlation =D. Va.n su ta.i ta^m, thien tai, thien tai (hehe, doc blog may xong tao da dac dao :P) dude: Happy New Year =) . Why do I use “dangerous disguise”? Using Kitaro’s music to describe / to feel the spiritual Orient is just like using the film “Hero” to exemplify the Chinese philosophy of hero, war and culture !!! It’s so far, far, far away from the authentic, from the genuine !!! Monday January 22, 2007 – 09:47am (SGT)
cai article may gui doc hay ghe (du khong hieu lam o doan “phai biet complete knowledge of the present and the past to be able to predict the future”!!! Thursday January 25, 2007 – 11:26pm (SGT) minh cung thich nghe Kitaro tu lau roi, minh cung co rat nhieu bai ve kitaro ne , truoc gio nghe thi may ban cua minh bao minh nghe nhac gi dau chan chet , bay gio co mot nguoi chiu nghe kitaro voi minh roi , hahaha , add ban vao thoi ,hahaha Tuesday January 30, 2007 – 05:54pm (PST) 
Ba’c Kitaro co’ ca’i album doat giai Grammy la` ca’i “Thinking of you”… nghe phe^ lam Friday March 30, 2007 – 10:51pm (SGT)
@thinhlegolas: hehe, hoi o VN nghe album nay duoc giai Grammy la em chay ra tiem mua luon roi. Album ni` nghe phe^ (bai 5 va 6 thi phai), nhung co le chat nhac khong giong la(‘m voi Kitaro thoi ki dau, nghe em diu, “easy listening” hon thi phai 🙂 Saturday March 31, 2007 – 11:57am (SGT)
Uhm, album do’ nghe nhe. nha`ng va` em diu hon ca’c album kha’c. May ca’i truoc do’ nghe xong cam thay exhausted vi` no’ rat la` spiritual and sometimes dramatic… vi’ du. nhu ca’i soundtrack Heaven and Earth, che.p !! Saturday March 31, 2007 – 02:55pm (SGT)
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chu Nghia dao nay cham blog nhi. Dong y voi chu la nhac Kitaro nghe da thiet, hinh nhu may dua cho tao nghe thi phai, hoi cap 3 do. Co cai bai gi do nghe so*. da~ man luon, nua dem dang nghe so*. qua phai thuc day tat, hahaha. Phim kiem hiep hong kong, gan nhu phim nao cung co nhac cua Kitaro.
dear, i’m glad that you had a good weekend evening, esp. with music. but pls pardon me for disagreeing with you as follows:
Kitaro’s music, in its outlook, seems to have mysteriously and spiritually (ta^m linh) Oriental characteristics; but actually, it’s an alluring disguise. I would suggest a comparison with {the martial arts on action movies vs. the *true* martial arts that are practised in genuine dojos or pagodas}. His music, in a sense, is a *dangerous disguise* of the appreciation of the Orient and the nature.
I may include some more convincing reasons for my judgement. He *overuses* digital sounds and synthesizers to model the nature and the mystical feelings; but come on, it’s a wrong approach. If you’ve ever listened to a strong wind blown in a dark&cold night, or imagined urself in a winding desert, it shld be a feeling that is *totally different* from his music. The same applies to other features of nature that he tried to model. Besides, he didn’t go to university, his musical training is very informal; he may play several instruments, but it doesn’t mean that he played them well & in a correct manner.
Yanni’s music is better to listen to. Yanni played with prestigious orchestra (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra), good musicians and conductors, and was allowed to perform in sacred places like Forbidden City (China) & Taj Mahal (India).
Hi`, but after all, just want to say hello and take good care 😀
hehe, se co dip noi ve Yanni. Tao cung rat khoai buoi bieu dien cua ong nay o Greek (que huong ong i’ thi phai). Ma` Yanni cung khong biet ghi nhac bang “chinh qui 5 dong ke” thi phai :D.
Giong Quantum physics de cap, dai loai “you choose what you want to see” de nhan manh vai tro cua observer :”> (hehe, dang hung thu’ ve quantum physic, thong cam), co the nhac Kitaro cung dzi. Se co dip noi tip ve comment cua Hieu galoa` khi noi den nhac Pink Floyd.
@all: really thank for your comments 🙂 😛
you may be right about Kitaro music, Hieu. However, who says you have to go to university, to have formal training, and to play with prestigious orchestras to play music well???????
I’m not a huge fan of Kitaro, and I also don’t understand his music and listened to very few songs. But “If you’ve ever listened to a strong wind blown in a dark&cold night, or imagined urself in a winding desert, it shld be a feeling that is *totally different* from his music.” Your listening to the wind and your feeling for it should be different from that of his or that of Yanni, for that matter. He used one way to express his feeling/though, so did Yanni. You may not like his way, and you may like Yanni’s way more. But I don’t think it’s appropriate to call Kitaro’s music “dangerous disguise”.
Nghia: looking forward to your blog on Yanni and Pink Floyd. I was drunk the other night, and listened to “Comfortably Numb”, it was a great feeling!!!
this is not the right place, but since you said you’re excited about quantum physics, I can’t help it. This is an article about a talk by Sir Michael Atiyah, http://www.ams.org/notices/200606/comm-walker.pdf. I bet you and Hieu will find it interesting. Let me know what you guys think.
“You choose what you want to see”: nice correlation =D. Va.n su ta.i ta^m, thien tai, thien tai (hehe, doc blog may xong tao da dac dao :P)
dude: Happy New Year =) .
My main point is that if you want to model the nature, synthesizers shldn’t be a good choice. Acoustically, artificial sounds have lost many “natural harmonics” of the lively phenomenon, hence they sound very fake. BUT Kitaro *overuses* these effects in his compositions. Pls think of the “ro’c ra’ch” sound of a natural spring on a mountain, or the howling wind in the darkness, and listen again to Kitaro. Don’t you feel that Kitaro’s sound is so fake, so artificial ?!! **Again, the same applies to the seemingly mystical features in Kitaro’s music.** If you turn on some Yanni’s, do you feel that Yanni depicts these feelings much more naturally, through his harmonious orchestration, from the string section to the drum, and even human voice?
Why do I use “dangerous disguise”? Using Kitaro’s music to describe / to feel the spiritual Orient is just like using the film “Hero” to exemplify the Chinese philosophy of hero, war and culture !!! It’s so far, far, far away from the authentic, from the genuine !!!
cai article may gui doc hay ghe (du khong hieu lam o doan “phai biet complete knowledge of the present and the past to be able to predict the future”!!!
Mac cuoi khi doc doan Disclaimer o cuoi bai` (luc do dang ngoi tren xe bus, cuoi, thang ngoi ben canh phai quay sang nhi`n, haha)
minh cung thich nghe Kitaro tu lau roi, minh cung co rat nhieu bai ve kitaro ne , truoc gio nghe thi may ban cua minh bao minh nghe nhac gi dau chan chet , bay gio co mot nguoi chiu nghe kitaro voi minh roi , hahaha , add ban vao thoi ,hahaha
Ba’c Kitaro co’ ca’i album doat giai Grammy la` ca’i “Thinking of you”… nghe phe^ lam
Uhm, album do’ nghe nhe. nha`ng va` em diu hon ca’c album kha’c. May ca’i truoc do’ nghe xong cam thay exhausted vi` no’ rat la` spiritual and sometimes dramatic… vi’ du. nhu ca’i soundtrack Heaven and Earth, che.p !!
@thinhlegolas: hehe, hoi o VN nghe album nay duoc giai Grammy la em chay ra tiem mua luon roi. Album ni` nghe phe^ (bai 5 va 6 thi phai), nhung co le chat nhac khong giong la(‘m voi Kitaro thoi ki dau, nghe em diu, “easy listening” hon thi phai 🙂