Kiyoshi Kazuo

New Age · Meditation · Healing · Ambient

Still. Spacious. Transformative. Music composed for the quiet between thoughts — and everything that opens there.

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Final Release · A Retired Artist's Farewell

The Last Work

After more than a decade of composing, Kiyoshi Kazuo has stepped away from recording — leaving behind a body of work that continues to offer stillness to all who find it.

Dawning of a New Age: The Best of Kiyoshi Kazuo — final album 2018
Kiyoshi Kazuo · Retired Artist · Final Release 2018
2018 · Final Album

Dawning of a
New Age

The Best of Kiyoshi Kazuo

Released in September 2018 on dna-productions, this Best Of collection marks the close of Kiyoshi Kazuo's recording career — eight studio albums spanning 2007 to 2014, and now this: a final, generous retrospective drawn from all of them. Twenty remastered pieces, almost three hours, a complete arc.

What makes this collection remarkable is its range. Within it you'll find the tribal percussion of Kommon Elements, the mathematical precision of Dreaming of Consciousness, the blissful three-minute meditations of Minutes of Threee, and the extended thirty-minute immersions from The Six — each piece now remastered and placed in sequence like a single long breath taken and released over the course of a morning.

The title says everything: that a new age is always dawning, always available, always one moment of stillness away. The music has been left open for anyone who needs it.

Tracks drawn from across the discography, remastered 2018
01 Zazen (Re-Mastered)
02 Tandra (Re-Mastered)
03 Dhyāna (Re-Mastered)
04 Chakras (Re-Mastered)
05 Hydrogen (Re-Mastered)
06 Oxygen (Re-Mastered)
07 Opening the Veil
08 A Deeper Reality
09 First Kind (Shikaku)
10 Second Kind (Chokaku)
11 Peace-Love Continuum
12 Expansion
13 Nirvana (Re-Mastered)
14 Prana (Re-Mastered)
15 Bodhisattva (Re-Mastered)
16 Ki (Re-Mastered)
17 Metta Bhavana (Re-Mastered)
18 Esoteric Influences
19 Life Imagery
20 Perceptual Awareness
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The Artist

Kiyoshi Kazuo

Originally from Japan, Kiyoshi Kazuo established himself in the United States as one of the great New Age composers of his generation. His unique approach to harmony and progression adds a distinctive twist to music for meditation, healing, and yoga — rooted in Eastern contemplative tradition, shaped by a career spent listening deeply to what stillness actually requires.

His American debut, Relaxation as Response (2007), set the template: six ten-minute compositions in which sounds of nature flow in and out like waves on a deserted beach. From there, each album became its own focused inquiry. The Five Encounters explored the five human senses as portals to a wider kind of awareness — including, provocatively, extra-terrestrial encounter. Kommon Elements found the sacred in chemistry, sending listeners on a cosmic journey through tribal percussion and elemental soundscapes. Dreaming of Consciousness turned inward, its twelve mathematically structured pieces charting the architecture of the mind itself.

Minutes of Threee — widely regarded as his most purely blissful work — distilled the practice to its essence: twelve Sanskrit meditations, each exactly three minutes, each designed to bring the listener one step closer to the deepest level of stillness. His sixth release, The Six, took the opposite approach: six thirty-minute immersive soundscapes, long enough to dissolve time entirely. Nippon paid tribute to his homeland, naming six ten-minute pieces after Japanese cities while evoking the vast, quiet spaces that exist within them. And Planetis, his final studio album, left Earth altogether — ten thirty-minute pieces travelling the Solar System from its coldest reaches to its warmest, each one an interstellar reverie.

In 2018, Kiyoshi Kazuo retired from recording, releasing Dawning of a New Age: The Best of Kiyoshi Kazuo as his farewell — twenty remastered pieces spanning eleven years of work, sequenced as a single meditative journey of nearly three hours. The music remains available on all streaming platforms, continuing to offer what it always offered: a passage into quiet.

New Age Ambient Meditation Healing Zen Instrumental Contemplative Spiritual dna-productions
Complete Works · 2007–2018

Discography

Relaxation as Response by Kiyoshi Kazuo — new age debut 2007
2007 · 1st American Release · 6 Tracks

Relaxation as Response

Six compositions, each precisely ten minutes long. Sounds of nature flow in and out like waves on a deserted beach — where it all began.

6 tracks · 10 min each · 60 min total
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The Five Encounters by Kiyoshi Kazuo — 2008 new age album
2008 · 2nd American Release · 5 Tracks

The Five Encounters

Five 5-minute compositions designed to enlighten the listener in the ways of human and extra-terrestrial encounters — one for each sense.

  • 1 First Kind (Shikaku — Sight)
  • 2 Second Kind (Chokaku — Hearing)
  • 3 Third Kind (Kyukaku — Smell)
  • 4 Fourth Kind (Shokkaku — Touch)
  • 5 Fifth Kind (Mikaku — Taste)
5 tracks · 5 min each · 25 min total
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Kommon Elements by Kiyoshi Kazuo — 2008 ambient new age
2008 · 3rd American Release · 10 Tracks

Kommon Elements

Sweeping soundscapes propelled by tribal percussions send the listener into a deep state of meditation akin to cosmic travel — the periodic table as spiritual map.

  • 1 Hydrogen (H)
  • 2 Helium (He)
  • 3 Oxygen (O)
  • 4 Carbon (C)
  • 5 Neon (Ne)
  • 6 Iron (Fe)
  • 7 Nitrogen (N)
  • 8 Silicon (Si)
  • 9 Magnesium (Mg)
  • 10 Sulfur (S)
10 tracks · 4 min each · 40 min total
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Dreaming of Consciousness by Kiyoshi Kazuo — 2009 healing ambient
2009 · 4th American Release · 12 Tracks

Dreaming of Consciousness

Rooted in mathematics, twelve 3-minute instrumentals — as different from each other as they are typical to Kiyoshi's graceful style. Perfect for meditating and exploring one's inner self.

  • 1 Opening the Veil
  • 2 Vaporized Light
  • 3 A Deeper Reality
  • 4 Perceptual Awareness
  • 5 Purity Within Itself
  • 6 Shapeless Forms
  • 7 …To Pause Reflectively
  • 8 Life Imagery
  • 9 Esoteric Influences
  • 10 A Primary Connection
  • 11 Peace-Love Continuum
  • 12 Expansion
12 tracks · 3 min each · 36 min total
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Minutes of Threee by Kiyoshi Kazuo — 2010 meditation music
2010 · 5th American Release · 12 Tracks

Minutes of Threee

His most relaxing album to date. Twelve three-minute Sanskrit-named compositions, each designed to get you closer to the highest level of meditation. A blissful experience.

  • 1 Zazen
  • 2 Tandra
  • 3 Dhyāna
  • 4 Metta Bhavana
  • 5 Ki
  • 6 Chakras
  • 7 Prana
  • 8 Mandala
  • 9 Yantra
  • 10 Trataka
  • 11 Bodhisattva
  • 12 Nirvana
12 tracks · 3 min each · 36 min total
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The Six by Kiyoshi Kazuo — 2011 new age 30-minute immersive tracks
2011 · 6th American Release · 6 Tracks

The Six

Six thirty-minute tracks designed to immerse the listener in deep relaxation or meditation. Luscious soundscapes that melt stress away — or accompany focused, productive work.

6 tracks · 30 min each · 3 hours total
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Nippon by Kiyoshi Kazuo — 2012 Japanese city tribute new age music
2012 · 7th American Release · 6 Tracks

Nippon (日本)

A tribute to his native land. Six ten-minute tracks named for Japanese cities — vast musical spaces that lie in direct contrast to the populated urban landscapes they honour.

6 tracks · 10 min each · 60 min total
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Planetis by Kiyoshi Kazuo — 2014 solar system ambient new age
2014 · 8th American Release · Final Studio Album · 10 Tracks

Planetis

A journey through the Solar System — each 30-minute track explores a different planet from the coldest to the warmest. Ten new age ambiences sure to conjure interstellar images as you relax or meditate.

10 tracks · 30 min each · 5 hours total
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Dawning of a New Age: The Best of Kiyoshi Kazuo — 2018 farewell best of collection
Final Release · Best Of · 2018
2018 · Farewell Collection · 20 Tracks

Dawning of a New Age

Twenty remastered pieces drawn from across the full discography. Nearly three hours. The complete arc of a composer's life's work — a final, generous gift.

20 tracks · remastered · ~3 hours total
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Perfect For

Where This Music Lives

Meditation & Mindfulness

Compositions that create and sustain meditative space — whether sitting in silence, following the breath, or simply learning to be still.

Yoga & Movement Practice

Long, unhurried pieces that match the pace of a thoughtful practice — neither rushing nor pulling attention away from the body.

Sleep & Deep Rest

Music designed to ease the nervous system, quieten the mind, and create conditions for genuinely restorative sleep and recovery.

Healing & Therapy

Gentle enough for sensitive states, rich enough to hold difficulty — used in sound baths, energy work, and therapeutic listening.

Study & Deep Focus

Non-intrusive ambient textures that reduce cognitive noise and support sustained concentration without demanding attention.

Spiritual Practice

Music that honours the sacred — suited to prayer, ritual, journalling, ceremony, or any moment that calls for quiet reverence.