He entered into a worldwide distribution arrangement with Geffen Records in 1985–1986. This included a re-releasing of six prior albums titled "Ten Kai" (aka "Astral Voyage"), "Daichi" (aka "Full Moon Story"), "Millennia", "India", "Silver Cloud" and "Live in Asia" (aka "Asia") (each packaged with Japanesque obi strips) as well as a new album, aptly titled "Towards the West". Due to his combination of electronic and acoustic sounds, mellow music and repeating chords which resembled the umbrella New-age music category in the United States and Europe, his music was labeled as "New-age". However, he's not comfortable with the term, but it doesn't mean much for him., "whether people say my music is new age or not, it's OK with me, I'm just going to keep calling it Kitaro's music". On his music he noted that his outlook on life, study of philosophy, and responsibility to create music which has a good influence on society, influence his musical creation.