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― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago) link
Matt Groening came up with the ultimate New Age album title back in the late eighties when in a Life in Hell panel about Binky being a swami for hire it was mentioned that Swami Binkatanda had an album for sale called Spacey Tinkles
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=F0NUAGE
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago) link
Robert Bearns & Ron Dexter - The Golden Voyage Vol.2 - A Galactic Exploration Through Celestial Harmonics
except you will never find it, so let me just say that it's a pretty cool record.
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.cyndustries.com/synapse/synapse.cfm?pc=43&folder=march1977&pic=17
Will "stonewall" jackson from "ether ship" (!), playing his serge synthesiser to the whales, from greenpeace's ship, in 1977!
Awesome.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos242.htm
See, most of this stuff, I've actually owned, or own (all the edgar froese, klaus schultze, t dream, vangelis, eno, a r temple/tempel, paul horn in the pyramid) but to me, it's all kind of previous to the whole new age thing.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago) link
― earlnash, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:55 (twenty years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
http://italianprog.interfree.it/automat.jpg
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link
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― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
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― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago) link
Those old Jade Warrior recs are so obscure, even among vertigo collectors, that it amazes me. They're really good, surely one of the few undiscovered little gems of their sort out there.
I tend to differentiate between synthesiser/electronic/space music (as was) of the sort I got into when I was first getting into music, when I'd buy anything w/a picture of a modular synth on the back cover, and a nebula or suchlike on the front, and yer actual "new age". I have NO IDEA why. What got me into asking the qn was I got stuck on hold to-day, and the hold music was tinkly piano music w/added (quite strange-sounding) synthesiser, and based on this suzanne ciani concert I saw at a dutch electronic music concert years ago, I found myself thinking snidey thoughts abt "new age music". Then I realised that I had absolutely no idea what I was on abt. ILE has not let me down, and I thank you all for the great responses!
Anyway, based on the definitions above, my candidate for "search" is kronos by michael stearns, which is a wonderful synthesiser music record.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link
search: codona. the trio of collin walcott, don cherry and nana vasconcelos, whose albums were simultaneously claimed by new age fans, world music fans and jazz dudes, and were pretty good if memory serves.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link
*blush* Rah!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link
Star's End - 25 Significant STAR'S END Albums http://www.starsend.org/25albums.html
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
Mu-Psych Music!
― doug watson, Thursday, 5 October 2017 13:13 (six years ago) link
i lived long enough to see this dollar bin record get a fancy new vinyl reissue that will probably cost you about 25 bucks with shipping:
https://www.discogs.com/Jon-Hassell-Dream-Theory-In-Malaya-Fourth-World-Volume-Two/master/33904
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 October 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
also came here to say that this album is awesome and should cost you about five bucks now so don't wait for the 30 dollar reissue in ten years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=275&v=oHgek1ufoJI
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 October 2017 13:34 (six years ago) link
when the hell what that a dollar bin album, the early 90s???
― brimstead, Thursday, 5 October 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
what=was
well, yeah. i'm old. i just meant nobody really wanted it until internet era.
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 October 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
ha yeah it's kinda quaint reading the beginning of this thread. "who the hell listens to this stuff? why?"
― brimstead, Thursday, 5 October 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
It’s totally not worth a search but just want to mention that in my city every adult seemed to have only 3 new age artists in their collection and they were always the same: Enya, Spyrogyra and Secret Garden. Era was also huge but that was in the new age revival attempt in the late 90’s. Were “Ameno” and “Misere Mani” as huge in the US or Europe? I know they were also huge in France. Here in Mexico they would play in the hits radio every single day. And both Era 1 and Era 2 were selling like hot bread and would be featured in the top 10 of every fucking music store you entered.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
“Misere Mani” is actually a guilty pleasure of mine... I feel it would be an awesome song with better production it makes pop with gregorian chants work better than they should.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
spyro gyra are a jazz group, yo!
― brimstead, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
or like, when jazz-funk started to stink. some of their early stuff is nice, though
― brimstead, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
Oh you’re right! Tbh I’ve never listened to them I just related them to new age because they were popular around the same time and the same audience as new age consumers.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
Re: Ghostwriters, I've been wondering what you can say about Charles Cohen these days. He made some really fantastic synthesiser music. One of those tracks is on the A Retrospective compilation.
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
new age fans might be into the other spirogyra though. especially first wave new age fans who went from art/prog rock to new age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkSFlJubQU8
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
the few obits i've seen for him have definitely been somewhat awkward xp
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
Xpost is fuzak kind of a suburb of new age? I think it is
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 5 October 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
― brimstead
see also grateful dead thread
― the late great, Thursday, 5 October 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
UK-centric ILX had some weird blind spots, see also Tom Petty
― sleeve, Friday, 6 October 2017 00:04 (six years ago) link
there was definitely a different more specific ethos going on
not that i'm disparaging this thread! i actually think the early posts in this thread is some of ilm'n at its finest
― brimstead, Friday, 6 October 2017 00:52 (six years ago) link
Pauline Anna Strom compilation on RVNG is fantastic
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Monday, 13 November 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
Björn J:Son Lindh - Transea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xRV0RoBSNE
― jazzed (it's a boy!), Sunday, 2 February 2020 01:28 (four years ago) link
i'm ticked that peter davison's "glide" (which is a good record) has all sorts of hipster newage cred (though the rest of his extensive discography is completely unknown) while douglas adams' "light rain" languishes in unheard obscurity
― you know my name, look up the number of the beast (rushomancy), Sunday, 2 February 2020 01:42 (four years ago) link
Traces from 1985 is nice
― brimstead, Sunday, 2 February 2020 01:57 (four years ago) link
(davison album)
― brimstead, Sunday, 2 February 2020 02:04 (four years ago) link
I’d be surprised if that one had hip cred because it’s really ummmm 80s Folgers commercial-ish? Idk how exactly to describe it, just a really warm unpretentious un-cosmic vibe.
― brimstead, Sunday, 2 February 2020 02:06 (four years ago) link
you say "folgers commercial", i think "incest"
― you know my name, look up the number of the beast (rushomancy), Sunday, 2 February 2020 02:31 (four years ago) link
William Aura ‘Half Moon Bay’ is a stellar Saturday morning listen
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 29 February 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
I've been listening to this a lot:
https://soundcloud.com/soundsofthedawn/sounds-of-the-dawn-nts-radio-december-7th-2019
Has anyone heard anything else by Klaus Wiese? He seems to have released a lot of albums.
― toby, Sunday, 1 March 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
This is fabulous - perfect for Sunday evening.
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Sunday, 1 March 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
I'm on my second listen though this. Terrific stuff. Who is this guy!? I'd never heard of him before this but his discography is massive.
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 2 March 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
I've listened through a couple of times, too. Fantastic. Looks like Wiese was in Popol Vuh for a bit. Well, a year. Playing tambura, the massive hippie.
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Monday, 2 March 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
"Popol Vuh" - check"tambura" - checkOK I gotta hear this
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 00:23 (four years ago) link
I guess David Hykes fits in here? I can't stop listening to Hearing Solar Winds and, especially, Harmonic Meetings - both so enveloping and expansive. This year has been a cunt in so many respects but I'll remember it for being the year I re-learned how to sit still and listen.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
This album is very quiet and subdued, but it is absolutely not New Age music:
https://wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/superposition
And yet, it's nominated for a New Age Grammy. Bizarre.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx8hTWyUrIs96PFEUecbRnXLzfOiuBh7c
― xzanfar, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link
I have a small collection of new age tapes that I found in a trash pile in Mt. Shasta, CA, which is a New Age destination. Anyway, I find myself putting this one on a lot: https://waterfallmusic.bandcamp.com/album/zen-waterfall-for-bamboo-flute-and-piano
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
Description: Improvisations for Bamboo Flute (Shakuhachi) performed by Eliot Joshu and Paul Lloyd Warner (Piano) Recorded in 1977 in Kula, Maui, Hawaii
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 23:03 (three years ago) link
Pauline Anna Strom has passed:
pauline anna strom, 1946 - 2020 ~a companion across time, our trans millenia consortheartbroken to say goodbye to paula so suddenly at least now at one with a world beyond ours to which she was connectedhttps://t.co/bQPzHHJydJ pic.twitter.com/iLnwDA25ol— RVNG Intl. (@rvngintl) December 14, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 December 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
Damn. RIP
― groovypanda, Monday, 14 December 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05hJWn4c--A
I have been really enjoying the new Clarissa Connelly album, it has very strong Enya energy.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 12:17 (three years ago) link
I'm no expert on New Age but I've been known to enjoy "The Mummers Dance" and "Tubular Bells" from time to time.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 13:06 (three years ago) link
oh hell yeah
Morning Trip & Yoga Records are proud to finally reveal one of the ultimate lost masterworks of new age music: Alice Damon’s Windsong!
Gently propelled by Damon's haunting breath-of-life vocal winds reminiscent of Joan La Barbara underscored by field recordings and Damon's fretless bass sound calling to mind mid-70 Joni Mitchell, Windsong is traveling music, for the roads or for the skies. Instantly moving, it conjures vistas both romantically familiar and cosmically mysterious — waterfalls and wind, the voice of the earth, as heard through heavenly prisms.
― sleeve, Friday, 27 August 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link
couldn't find a Joanna Brouk thread so posting here since she is mentioned upthread, this is highly riyl The Space Between:
https://vantzou-harrison-bennett.bandcamp.com/album/christina-vantzou-michael-harrison-and-john-also-bennett
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
This is lovely. Thanks for the heads up.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
Don't know where to ask this question, so I'm putting it here:
I guess this is new age-ish, but is there a more specific name for this kind of music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF7W2Y0X4_s
It's usually made by a guitarist, with all other instruments (keys, bass, drums) being programmed. There was a ton of it around in the 1990s.
It's a little too "active" to be ambient or new age music, and while it hits a number of smooth jazz notes I'm not sure it's that either. (This is a 1999 solo album from Nektar's guitarist, and I'm pretty sure he never got played on smooth jazz formats.) It's too formulaic to be of much interest to a prog fan. It sounds like it should be the soundtrack to an Imax film.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 6 February 2023 23:02 (one year ago) link
https://iasos.com/detalist/rol-dvd/#glimpse
I'm into https://vimeo.com/178121678
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Saturday, 29 April 2023 23:14 (ten months ago) link
Sad news about Wilburn Burchette, as featured on I Am the Center and so forth:
https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2023/07/10/brothers-ages-84-and-76-found-dead-in-blossom-valley-home-near-lakeside-identified/
Worth a deeper listen:
https://masterwilburnburchette.bandcamp.com/music
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 15:44 (eight months ago) link
listening now in fact, thank you and RIP
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 15:49 (eight months ago) link
Douglas Mcgowan with a remembrance:
https://numerogroup.com/blogs/stories/master-wilburn-burchette-1939-2023
Also Bill Perrine, who just published a book on 1970s San Diego experimentalism and included Burchette as part of it, is asking for anyone who might be able to help in preservation of his material to contact him at bill at billingsgate dot org
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 18:55 (eight months ago) link
oh unbelievable. i love his music so much. i had no idea he was 1) still alive and 2) so close by!
his music means a lot to me, so it’s frustrating how hard it is to get in physical form. i particularly like the one with the giant flaming eye ball floating in space like a flaming eye ball nebula. i feel like it speaks directly to my innermost self
i am waiting for the new bill perrine book to show up at the brick and mortar, instead of mail order from massachusetts or whatever. very excited for this one!!
― the late great, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 20:31 (eight months ago) link