Miho: Journey to the Mountain is an album by Paul Winter Consort

Paul Winter Consort

The Paul Winter Consort is an American musical group, led by soprano saxophonist Paul Winter. Founded in 1967, the group mixes elements of jazz, classical music, world music, and the sounds of animals and nature. They are often classified as new age music or "ecological jazz", and their unique...

, released in 2010 through the record label

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 Living Music. The album was commissioned by the Miho Museum

Miho Museum

The Miho Museum is located southeast of Kyoto, Japan, near the town of Shigaraki, in Shiga Prefecture. The museum was the dream of Mihoko Koyama , the heiress to the Toyobo textile business, and one of the wealthiest women in Japan. In 1970 Koyama founded the Shinji Shumeikai spiritual movement...

 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

53rd Grammy Awards

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, the album earned the group a Grammy Award

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 for Best New Age Album

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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
  Paul Winter
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   - soprano saxophone
• Eugene Friesen
  Eugene Friesen
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   - cello
• Don Grusin
  Don Grusin
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   - keyboard
• Jordan Rudess
  Jordan Rudess
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   - keyboard
• Druba Ghosh - sarangi
• Arto Tuncboyaciyan
  Arto Tunçboyaciyan
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   - vocals, sazabo
• Paul McCandless
  Paul McCandless
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   - oboe, english horn, heckelphone, bass clarinet
• Yukiko Matsuyama - koto
• Glen Velez
  Glen Velez
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   - percussion
• Steve Gorn
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   - bansuri
• Yangjin Lamu - voice
• Tim Brumfield - piano, organ
• Cafe DeSilva - percussion
• Eriko Koide - carillon
• Shumei Taiko Ensemble
• Chorus of Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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  , conducted by Wayne Abercrombie
• Shumei Chorus, conducted by Hiroko Matsui