Gaia-Onbashira

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Gaia-Onbashira
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Studio album by Kitarō
Released May 19, 1998
Genre New age
Length49:16
Label Domo
Producer Kitarō
Kitarō chronology
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(1997) Cirque Ingenieux1997
Gaia-Onbashira
(1998)
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(1999) Best Of Kitaro Vol. 21999
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Gaia-Onbashira is an album by the new age artist Kitarō. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album in 1998.

New-age music is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism. It is used by listeners for yoga, massage, meditation, reading as a method of stress management to bring about a state of ecstasy rather than trance, or to create a peaceful atmosphere in their home or other environments, and is associated with environmentalism and New Age spirituality.

Kitarō musician, composer, record producer, arranger

Kitarō (喜多郎), born Masanori Takahashi, is a Japanese recording artist, composer, record producer, and arranger noted for his electronic-instrumental music, and is often associated with and regarded as one of the most prominent musical acts of New-age music. He is the winner of a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album and a Golden Globe Award for the Heaven & Earth (1993) original score.

The Grammy Award for Best New Age Album is presented to recording artists for quality albums in the new-age music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Kitaro.

Title
No.TitleLength
1."Yamadashi"13:27
2."Misty"4:13
3."Gaia"7:11
4."Wood Fairy"5:34
5."Satobiki"9:21
6."Kiotoshi"9:30

Charts

YearChartPosition
1998Top New Age Albums (Billboard magazine) [2] 9

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