For over a quarter century, Kitaro has been an internationally recognized icon and globally acclaimed composer and musician.  His pioneering fusion of electronic artistry, traditional Japanese forms, and pop-inflected Western idioms created a lush, harmonic, and poetic sound that won the now legendary artist a huge international following.

1980's Volume 1 in the revered Silk Road series is considered an all-time masterpiece, with subsequent volumes only adding to its luster.  '87's GRAMMY-nominated The Light Of The Spirit, a collaboration with Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, exceeded sales of two million in the U.S. alone.  1992's Dream, made with Yes' Jon Anderson, elevating Kitaro's presence Stateside to an unprecedented degree.

The following year, Kitaro's ethereal accompaniment to Oliver Stone's film, Heaven & Earth, was honored with the Golden Globe® for Best Original Score.  In 2000, Kitaro's "Thinking Of You", which online music bible allmusic.com calls "one of the most beautiful CDs of all time," won a GRAMMY for Best New Age Album.

Most fundamentally, at its heart, Kitaro's music is always about sending a profound message of peace and spiritual development, both personally and globally and coalesces into an elegant and wondrously integrated masterwork, Sacred Journey Of Ku-Kai Volume 3.  The first in an important series, it offers a beautifully expressed and richly resonant experience through which to contemplate our changing world.