Peace On Earth | 
 enlarge | Artist: Kitaro
Label: Domo Records
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 59071
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.4
UPC: 794017101422
EAN: 0794017101422
ASIN: B000005WNM
Release Date: September 17, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Kitaro, Bach, Johann Sebast | | • | Silent Night - Kitaro, Gruber, Franz | | • | Angels We Have Heard on High - Kitaro, Traditional | | • | Joy to the World/The First Noel - Kitaro, England | | • | The Little Drummer Boy - Kitaro, Davis, Katherine | | • | Jingle Bells - Kitaro, Pierpont, J.S. | | • | Rosa Mystica - Kitaro, Germany | | • | It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Kitaro, Sears, Edmund Hamil | | • | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Kitaro, Traditional | | • | La Nanita Nana - Kitaro, Traditional | | • | O Holy Night - Kitaro, Adam, Adolphe | | • | The Great Spirit - Kitaro, America |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
New Age guitarist Kitaro aims for the mystical in this assorted international mixture of hymns and carols. Utilizing strings, flutes, harps, voices of an international children's choir, synthesizers, organs, percussion, and guitars, Peace on Earth retains a sort of enigmatic quality that transcends some of the more prosaic arrangements that color such warhorses as "Jesu Joy of Man's Desire," "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear," and "Jingle Bells." Still, Kitaro's finally a great-old fashioned mood setter even as he aims for more ethereal realms, slowing down tempos, shading a phrase, or lyrically bending a line. It's not musical alchemy, but sometimes it's close. --Martin Keller
Album Description
Peace on Earth is the first holiday album by Kitaro and takes long time holiday favorites and orchestrates them with ethereal overtones, spiritual subtleties and bursts of theatrical effects. Also included is an original Christmas composition composed by Kitaro. Peace on Earth is an atmospheric and intriguing holiday album that merges the finest of Eastern and Western culture instilling harmony and peaceful co-existence through melodies of passion and drama. Also available on DVD with evocative nature imagery.
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| Customer Reviews:
It's not the CD April 20, 2008
David Wells (Bradenton, FL)
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.
 kitaro peace on earth November 11, 2006
Johnni Juul (denmark)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
the track list is correct
but the cd cover is wrong
i own peace on earth
 peace on earth March 20, 2006
R. J. Masters (Northampton,U.K.)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Is this album proof that Kitaro isn't really New Age? June 6, 2003
R. L. MILLER (FT LAUDERDALE FL USA)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
Peace on Earth September 7, 2001
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
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