Miho: Journey to the Mountain

Miho: Journey to the Mountain
Studio album by Paul Winter Consort
Released	2010
Recorded	2010
Genre	New Age, World Fusion
Label	Living Music
Paul Winter Consort chronology
Crestone (2007) Miho: Journey to the Mountain (2010)

Miho: Journey to the Mountain is an album by Paul Winter Consort, released in 2010 through the record label Living Music.^[1] The album was commissioned by the Miho Museum in Kyoto, Japan to be a musical celebration of the museum. The museum is a unique piece of architecture, built on the top of a mountain, and partially tunneling into it, giving the experience of the museum being part of the Earth. The album was recorded in the corridors of the museum, which are naturally reverberant. In 2011, the album earned the group a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album.

Track listing

1. "Saxophone (Song of Miho)"
2. "Sarangi (Dawn Raga)"
3. "Arto (Before It's Too Late)"
4. "English Horn (Theme from "On the Central Steppes of Asia", Borodin)"
5. "Koto"
6. "Frame Drums (Cedar Grove Dance)"
7. "Bansuri & Saxophone"
8. "Yangjin (Words of Wish Fulfillment)"
9. "Bendir And Heckelphone"
10. "Saxophone Reprise"
11. "Arto (Singing to the Mountain)"
12. "The Welcome (Song of Miho)"
13. "Koto Spring"
14. "Elephant Dance"
15. "Whale Raga"
16. "Love Is Not in Your Mind"
17. "Twilight"
18. "Andante (Bach)"
19. "Remembering"
20. "Saturday Night in Peach Blossom Valley"
21. "Song of Miho"
22. "Morning Sun"

Personnel

• Paul Winter - soprano saxophone (tracks 1, 7, 8, 10, 14, 16, 18-20, 22)
• Eugene Friesen - cello (tracks 8, 11, 18, 19, 22)
• Don Grusin - keyboard (tracks 2, 4, 6, 16, 17, 21, 22)
• Jordan Rudess - keyboard (tracks 3, 11, 19)
• Druba Ghosh - sarangi (tracks 2, 15, 20)
• Arto Tuncboyaciyan - vocals (tracks 3, 11, 13, 16, 20), sazabo (tracks 3, 11), percussion (track 20)
• Paul McCandless - oboe (track 22), English horn (tracks 4, 13, 17), heckelphone (track 9), bass clarinet (track 20)
• Yukiko Matsuyama - koto (tracks 5, 13)
• Glen Velez - percussion (track 14), riq (track 6), tar (track 6), shakers (track 6), bendir (track 9)
• Steve Gorn - bansuri (tracks 7, 8, 13, 20, 22)
• Yangjin Lamu - voice (track 8)
• Tim Brumfield - piano (tracks 18), organ (track 8)
• Cafe DeSilva - percussion (track 8)
• Eriko Koide - carillon (tracks 12, 21)
• Shumei Taiko Ensemble (track 20)
• Chorus of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, conducted by Wayne Abercrombie (track 19)
• Shumei Chorus, conducted by Hiroko Matsui (track 20)

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