Zen Garden [Import]

Kokin Gumi | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 4, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Solitudes
• ASIN: B00004Y2DV
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #131,355 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dawn 1:03

2. Flower 6:26

3. Moon 5:56

4. Feng Shui 5:44

5. Daylight 7:08

6. Stone Garden 5:16

7. Snow 6:03

8. Twilight 1:33

9. Birds 5:47

10. Wind 1:36

11. The Milky Way 5:18

12. Dusk 1:03

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing - Even the spaces between the notes, August 25, 2003

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Archoboy "Archoboy" (Wayzata, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zen Garden (Audio CD)

Delicate, complex (yet somehow simple) interweaving of piano, flute and strings. Every note and space feel perfectly balanced. This album is more than catchy tunes with filler instrumentation - It is ART.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music for Tai Chi accompaniment, August 31, 2006

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Sakuteiki "sakuteiki" (Grants Pass, OR United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Zen Garden (Audio CD)

Kokin Gumi CD, along with portions of music from The Last Samurai (Two-Disc Special Edition) movie score, provides a metronome to Tai Chi practice, slowing the heart, breathing, movements, bringing rhythm and poise to the day. Kokin Gumi is musical insulation from jumping "monkey mind" moving into a soothing more mindful repose. Restores body's natural balance in thoughts, decisions, actions.

Also view Departures Oscar Best Foreign Film Japanese with subtitles for compassionate look at healing ritual with music, Dhamma Brothers documentary of 10 day meditation training in maximum security prison with 10 year follow-up and Temple Grandin hopeful biography of change with calming.

If you can find the 1964 Japanese CD Kyotaku it has equally ethereal comforting single breath refrains.

Highly recommended.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Zen Garden - Zen Experience, November 3, 2000

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Susan M. Salzman "Suzy Q" (Rochester, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zen Garden (Audio CD)

This album of instrumental music, blending the East and the West, is an experience not to be missed. Haunting, centered, soaring are apt descriptions of the emotions elicited by the simple but effective melodies. Masterful arrangements, evocative instrumentation, wonderful background music. Listening to the album is a meditation in itself. Highly recommended. Can't wait for the next release.