Thursday nite, my sensory organs went overdrive getting tingled by Kitaro’s out of this world music. For the first time in my life, I felt lifted by the true prowess of music – a world where words aren’t necessary and a mutual understanding could be reached by just performing or listening with your heart. And where lights and images are secondary to sounds while our sense of hearing takes control of our emotions. We feel rather than think through the abstract rather than the defined. For Kitaro is not a man who sticks to labels. This is a self-taught musician lauded for marrying the east with the west in leading a new wave of music that has come to be known as New Age. But yet, while others will thrive on the fame of being the leader of the pack, the free spirit in Kitaro refuses to conform to a label. Just as he refused to bend to orders from the Singapore’s authorities to forgo his long tresses for entry into the country 20 years ago, Kitaro is rejecting the label of New Age.
“The New Age category still exists in the Grammy Awards, but my philosophy is, I don’t care about trends, I have my own style.”
In a world where words could no longer buy understanding let alone say trust, Kitaro is saying let’s awaken the conscience, which doesn’t need a mould or definition, but is simply hidden in a forgotten corner of the human soul. Let us start listening to our hearts and not our minds.
I’m a Kitaro convert now.
More on Kitaro
Kitaro’s music journey http://www.domo.com/artist/kitaro-bio.html
