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Benzaiten – The principle of contrast as a receptive element

22/12/2016

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Benzaiten is a 1974 album, by Japanese musician Osamu Kitajima. Now an experienced musician sixty seven years old, this album was released when Kitajima was only twenty five, and it was the first album released under his own name (Kitajima had previously released an album under the pseudonym Justin Heathcliff). 

Although Benzaiten highlights a point in his career upon which Kitajima was being deeply influenced by western music, the musical axiomatic axis of this record is still exceedingly rooted, as well as undoubtedly and strongly indebted, to traditional Japanese music. With an underlying score of serene complacence, the overall sound of this album overwhelms and precedes the strong involvement that Kitajima would develop to New Age Music.

With a vast array of influences, which goes from electronica to psychedelic rock, the music of Osamu Kitajima works on many sources and components, absorbing inspirations from a vast panel of artists, genres and styles of music. Nonetheless, it has a strong and cohesive identity, which sees in serenity and calmness the basic principles of its objectives, perspectives and overall aesthetics.
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Working also on a vast range of instruments, Kitajima is an audacious artist, that doesn’t have any fear of experimenting, evolving and developing, and this is pretty much explicit in the music delivered in Benzaiten. Sculpting splendidly musical details in a primal panoramic soundscape of unorthodox beauty, Osamu Kitajima develops a very personal precept of musical understanding, that inserts the listener into a world of sensible diversification and ambivalent evaluation, amplified by the scope of a masterly creative artistry, courageously built by the authorial quest of a musician that is never afraid to show the true genuine aspects of his uncommon art. 

Elevating what he has assimilated on traditional Japanese music to a standard upon which he deliberately showcases the marvelous upheaval of a deeply gracious sonorous beauty, filled with the most subtle aspects of his music, Osamu Kitajima delivers a formidable spectacle that is not only wonderful, but is also astoundingly spiritual and poetic at the same time. Seeing the possibilities music has to offer as a means of educating the individual, as well as purify his spirit and cleanse his soul, as well as his character, Osamu Kitajima foretells a journey that has his music as the basic component of an erudite understanding of art, delivering a sonorous experience whose main antagonistic purpose seems to rule over the calmness of human nature.    


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