Customer Reviews

Peace On Earth

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I really enjoyed this one by Kitaro. The interesting style all his own mixed with the traditional Christmas hymns all together makes for one beautiful album. Kitaro is a man with an unusual talent, and it is so cool to relax to the soothing sounds of Christmas music.Especially KITARO style.

GET IT. I don't care if it is the middle of July. I don't care if you don't get into new age. GET IT. Butiful as christmas CAN get. I recomend as A christmas gift. Especally to someone who is suppressed, heart broken, hert, or anything. It is by far as healing as I have ever seen and I have seen far more then avrage. I call it music from Heaven. Great to listen all year around because it's so butiful.

As an listener to music by Kitaro, this is a must for anyone who loves christmas and new age music.

This is another holiday album that I will never tire of. Kitaro's arrangements are sparkling and fresh and absolutely timeless. "Joy To The World/The First Noel," is gorgeous and majestic utilizing the pure tones of an etherial children's chorus, and his take on "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear," a tricky song for many, conjurs every bit of the mystery and magic of the season in a simple and elegant manner. Kitaro's signature synthesisor turns & swoops are abundant and merely add to the joyousness of the music. Track 12, "The Great Spirit," is like nothing you've ever heard with electronic sound effects, inspiring chorus, and a spine tingling spoken verse. Without time...without end....

I hate Christmas albums. This collection of traditional music arranged in classical KITARO style is simply superb. A haunting mix of traditional style and the Kitaro signature. Buy it - your heart will sing.

A beautiful collection of classic Christmas songs delivered by the genious that is Kitaro! The arrangements are fantastic and the childrens choir an extra nice touch. I have been a fan of Kitaro music for years, but this should please a wide variety of music lovers; as well as bringing a subtle introduction to the magic that is Kitaro!

Hard to find in new quality. This was such a wonderful addition for the holidays.

I absolutely loved the CD Peace on Earth. One of my all time favorite holiday CD's in fact. However, none of the other reviews gave the whole picture of what I was getting.
I was quite surprised when I first watched the DVD and realized there would be no performance footage. There were some really nice still shots of footage that appeared to be Colorado "ish" in the winter time. Somehow, this really should have been mentioned. Also I admit to be disappointed that Great Spirit was not included in this collection.
I still love the music, but this DVD is basically a "video fireplace" to have on the big screen during the holiday season. I still give it 4 stars becuse it is the best of its kind. I got this DVD on Amazon marketplace for $7.20. Had I paid full price, I probably wouldn't have been as generous with the number of stars.

Only kitaro can play and compose beutiful music like this,very relaxing and peaceful.releases all your tensions in your body and helps you to relax.

I mean, as such. Look, a lot of electronic, instrumental prog, "space" music--what evurrr!--artists got lumped into this New Age category once the term was invented. Veteran artists like Vangelis and Kitaro, for example. It was a convenient way to pigeonhole them so that people knew what you were talking about--I did it, you did it, we all did it, right? The trouble was that it got them associated with the spiritual kitsch of New Age, a form of philosophical repudiation of the "stress" of the world, along with a mistrust of religion to help the soul. So a whole bunch of Christians, Jews and Muslims decided that the messed-up way their brethren approached the issue of the spiritual meant their faiths themselves were no longer valid. Geez, Islam has these fundamentalist extremists, Christianity has the Klan and David Koresh, yadda-yadda. Errnngh! Wrong answer. But hey, don't get me started. And when it comes to music, both Vangelis and Kitaro got their starts in early prog bands in their native lands, and decided that a look outside their native cultures would help them in a creative sense. They made that decision as musicians, hear what I'm saying? If Kitaro has always seemed "other-worldly" to the Westerner in the themes he uses, that's because he's Japanese, okay? On his other albums, listen to those synth lines and picture them done on shamisen or koto. And that cultural flavoring comes through on this Christmas album. Behind the signature Kitaro phrasing, these Holiday classics are basically played straight, as composed. That's not so unusual--look at the Harry Simeone treatment of "Little Drummer Boy" as contrasted with two different versions of it by Johnny Mathis. And now we have one by Kitaro. And there's an international flavor to this album overall. Kitaro reminds us of one thing we've forgotten--that our Holiday favorites are of diverse national origins. And he underscores that by organizing an international children's choir to do the vocals. It wouldn't be too shabby an idea for him to re-do this as a TV special the way he did with "One Enchanted Evening"--that one was a huge PBS hit. And that, my friends, is how a so-called "New Age" artist can do a Christmas album. He does it as a musician, not a philosophical zealot.