Name: Amaterasu Omikami - Movement 2 - Nippon
Channel: Ken Linder
Description: "Amaterasu Omikami - Movement 2 - Nippon" is a song by Ken Linder. Graceful and lovely, this light and gently flowing piece of music reflects the role of the mythical sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami in the simple and beautiful life of Japan's Golden Age, a more peaceful phase of her dance of creation.

Amaterasu Omikami - Movement 2 - Nippon

Ken Linder

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Graceful and lovely, this light and gently flowing piece of music reflects the role of the mythical sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami in the simple and beautiful life of Japan's Golden Age, a more peaceful phase of her dance of creation.

electronic ambient

Ken Linder

Primarily electronic music - ambient electronic, new age, electronic classical and Electronic Jazz Fusion. An auditory sound sculpture, a sensory emotional

Cross electronica with Alan Parsons, a bit of Depeche Mode and Dead Can Dance - stir well with jazz influences and classical music and you get my electronic music. Ken Linder has written hundreds of compositions in many different styles (pop, alternative, ambient electronic, new age, gothic, gothic industrial, folk, classical, electronic classical and Jazz) over the years. This is a small sampling of his instrumental work. He is equally at home with an acoustic guitar as he is with a synthesizer and an electronic studio. "In my instrumental music I work toward creating an auditory sound sculpture, a sensory emotional journey that conjures up images in the minds and sensations of the listener."

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Electronic • Ambient

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Peak #1,008

Peak in subgenre #29

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Ken Linder

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March 17, 2003

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MP3 2.6 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

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This is one of several themed pieces created for my second instrumental album;  entitled Native Sun, it was oriented around the role of the sun as deity and center of worship, and spanned the cultures of 4 continents (South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia).

In this second movement of the final theme, the Japanese solar goddess Amaterasu Omikami (who is said to have danced the world into being, out of Chaos and darkness) becomes the source of gentle golden illumination of the classical era of the Empire of the Sun;  her light seems to pervade the classical images of the era, and this song was meant to evoke that feeling, her sun-self now creating the grain-golden enlightenment of the Golden Era of Nippon.  Out of the chaos of creation's birth, now comes the peace of the philosophical and culture-focused eras which allowed the maturing of the Japanese civilization.

I find the three movements of this theme particularly intriguing as they represent the only female solar deity among the cultures from which I drew my inspiration, and the classical creation myth cycle of which she is a part lent itself beautifully to an entirely different examination of the role of a solar deity in the development of an advanced culture;  the stages of the myth seemed to twine with the development of the Japanese culture, inspiring me to tell both stories at once, through the exploration of this musical theme.

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