Interview with music master Kitaro
【Global Network Fashion Comprehensive Report: Character Interview Planning Editor: Chen Chen】
Hall-level music master Kitaro
Hall-level musician Master Kitaro, even if you have not heard of this name, you should always have a classic memory of symbiosis with his wonderful soundtrack: Gu Tianle, Li Ruotong's version of "Divine Eagle Hero", Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü when they reunited after 16 years and looked at each other with tears; Huang Rihua's version of "Tianlong Babu", the tragic memories of Qiao Feng and Ajusai on the cow and sheep on the Wild Goose Gate; The mysterious and eerie cutscenes from the Singapore tv series Lotus Battle; The movie "The Song Family Dynasty" starring Maggie Cheung, Yang Ziqiong and Wu Junmei, the sad and happy clutch of the three sisters of the Song family in the big era... In the films and television works that we are familiar with, Kitaro's music is almost everywhere.
For more than 30 years, in the film, television and music works that we are familiar with, Kitaro's shadow is almost everywhere, from the soundtrack of TVB martial arts TV series to the golden songs of Mei Yanfang, Beyond and Zhang Liangying, the countless masterpieces of this new century music hall master have accompanied the growth of generations.
Music is with me
Kitaro, whose original name was Masanori Takahashi, was born in 1953 to a peasant family in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. In 1978, Kitaro started as an independent musician and released his debut album "Celestial Realm", which opened the prelude to the "New Age" in the East. Kitaro's song "Silk Road", composed by Kitaro for NHK's documentary, made him famous in one fell swoop. At that time, Kitaro was only 27 years old, had never been to China, nor had he walked on this thousand-year-old road, but only created a Silk Road music full of Chinese charm by virtue of his indirect understanding of Chinese music and the musician's special perception of history.
"The Silk Road is indeed the highlight of my life," Kitaro said, "because we can't appreciate how many difficulties the ancients experienced when they created such a great Silk Road." When we see it in various documentaries and movies, it brings us a huge shock, like opening up another mysterious world. There are some young people who may not know much about the earlier technology and culture, but in fact, some culture should be passed down from generation to generation, which is the meaning of what we are doing now. ”
Listen attentively to the sound of music
Since "Silk Road", Kitaro has traveled between pure art music and pop music, and has also gained global attention, winning many landmark music awards such as Grammys and Golden Globe Awards, not only winning the Grammy Award for Best New Century Album for "Thinking of You", but also receiving 16 Grammy nominations. No Asian musician has achieved such results.
Today, Kitaro, who is over the age of hana, has turned his vision of exploring nature to a wider world. He had a close friend, Kazunari Shibata, an astronomy professor at Kyoto University, whose research interests were solar flares. After listening to Kitaro's Grammy-nominated music "Ancient Chronicles" album, Professor Shibata seemed to have gained a synaesthesia, feeling that the music in it resembled a picture of sun flares and planets moving.
Music gives me more imagination
The "Ancient Chronicles and the Universe" concert is divided into two chapters, the first half of which is based on the legend "Ancient Chronicles" and the second half is based on the extraordinary and wonderful changes in the "Universe". Because the theme is related to the universe, the concert will add a lot of visual factors, and will also feature time-lapse images, interwoven with real-time film majors offered by Kazunari Shibata, a professor of astronomy at Kyoto University, NASA, and the Hubble Space Telescope.
"I think my music can also contain a broader imagination, and music and pictures can also play an educational role." Kitaro said he hopes that more young people and children will come to see this imaginative performance, with the help of music, and look forward to the future of mankind.
Special thanks: "Warm Planet" project
Photographer: Shi Hongwei
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