Sound Design Records / Japan

Year of release:

1984

General:

• Live Recording.
• The first official album with a pure percussion song ("Japanese Drums").
• Recorded 2. August 1984 in Shanghai (Shanghai People's Gymnasium), 9. September 1984 in Kuala Lumpur (Garden Park) and 11. September in Kota Kinabal (State People's Gymnasium).
• The song "Dawn in Malaysia" was a re-arrangement by Kitaro. The original title is "Getaran Jiwa" (The Stirring Of My Heart) and is written by one of the most famous malaysian composers, P. Ramlee. The original song is very famous, because of copyright reasons I couldn't put a MP3 file here. But I found three different MIDI versions: Version 1 - Version 2 - Version 3.

  
  

  Other releases:

  Released in Europe by Polydor as "Live in Asia". Re-released in 1985 by Geffen Records as "Asia".

  
  

  Track list:

  1. Earth Born
  2. Caravansary
  3. Theme Of Silk Road
  4. Cosmic Love
  5. Cloud
  6. Japanese Drums
  7. Return To Russia
  8. Straight Away to Orion
  9. Dawn In Malaysia

  
  

  My opinion:

  Real live album, probably to promote Silver Cloud. I think because of the two concerts in Malaysia he re-arranged the song "Getaran Jiwa" to honor the malaysian composer P. Ramlee.

  
  

  Other cover versions:

  Geffen Records	Polydor	Sound Design Records / Japan

  
  

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