"New Age Music", search and destroy.

i like that sam mcclellan record.

http://crystalvibrations.blogspot.com/

ian, you need this album. really good. i love the evolution of JMT.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m10DHwY8TtQ/TVjhrgfO8tI/AAAAAAAACqI/KuFP3_4aK8Q/s1600/John%2BMichael%2BTalbot%2B-%2BThe%2BNew%2BEarth.jpg

is it... christian?

well yeah all his post mason profitt stuff is.

Search, search, search the new Hatchback record Zeus & Apollo... This is SO SWAGGERIFIC. I can't stop playing it. Like, I'll be out doing something fun but will actually be looking forward to getting back home to put this on the turntable and soak in it.

bought that bearns/dexter LP yesterday!

why do so many new agey albums have such terrible typography?

also, scott, that photo is adorable!

wish they hadn't used the AC for art, but here's a piece that just ran in the LA Times on "The New Age of New Age" with quotes from Blues Control, Oneohtrix Point Never, Greg Davis, Yoga Records, and Laraaji:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-ca-new-age-20110703,0,2953740.story

greg davis is awesome but http://allmusic.com/album/mutually-arising-r1611627/review is 'serene' like the universe catching on fire is serene

I bought a near mint copy of Alex Degrassi's Turning: Turning Back yesterday based on a hunch, the cover, and the song titles and it's really good! It was $1.99.

How could this not be good?!

http://www.technodisco.net/img/tracks/a/alex-de-grassi/1769572-alex-de-grassi-turning-turning-back.jpg

I bought another Alex Degrassi record (Southern Exposure) and surprise, it's good! Anyone who likes the American fingerpicking style or the Numero Guitar Soli comp should look in the New Age section more often. (Try not to look at his fingernails)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP42t4IDAYI

OMG

http://www.hos.com/#ambicon2013

Just spotted this... http://blog.lightintheattic.net/?p=13771

V/A – I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In American 1950-1990
LITA 107 (2xCD | 3xLP Box Set)
Available: October 29, 2013
PRE-ORDER NOW!

Forget everything you know, or think you know about new age because our latest release, I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In American 1950-1990, drives deep into the untouched realm of private press new age and reveals the truth about this misunderstood genre. I Am The Center - the first major anthology to survey the golden age of new age music.

For new age, at its best, is a reverberation of psychedelic music, and great by any standard. This is analog, handmade music communicating soul and spirit, often done on limited means and without commercial potential, self-published and self-distributed. Before it became big business and devolved into the spaced out elevator music we know and loathe today, this was the real thing.

From mathematical musical algorithms to airport murder mysteries to Henry Mancini and Bugs Bunny, the connections to mainstream culture run in curious directions. (Did you know, for instance, that a track from the first modern private press new age album is featured on the Blade Runner soundtrack? It’s called “Pompeii, 76 A.D.”, and we’ve got it here.)

I Am The Center is a knowing, but never cynical overview that invites listeners at last to the mainspring of a misunderstood genre’s greatest lights. Many of the biggest names are present — Iasos, inter-dimentional channeler of “paradise music”; Laraaji, discovered by Brian Eno playing for spare change in Washington Square Park; and the recently famous JD Emmanuel, icon to a new generation of drone, ambient, noise musicians. Call it what you will — before it was anything else, it was new age.

Lovingly conceived and lavishly presented, I Am The Center features stunning paintings by the legendary visual artist Gilbert Williams, and liner notes by producer Douglas Mcgowan, who weaves the words and images of the wizards and sorceresses of new age into a prismatic portrait of music that can finally be recognized for what it is: great American folk art.

2xCD housed in deluxe tip-on gatefold jacket with 44-page book
3xLP housed in slip case w/ 3 tip-on jackets, 20-page book, and download card
Both formats with notes by Douglas McGowan featuring interviews with artists and includes rare archive photos.
Artwork by Gilbert Williams and Janaia Donaldson.
2 unreleased tracks, 7 others previously only on cassette
Vinyl cut by John Golden. Pressed at RTI.
Remastered from original sources at 24 bit/ 96 kHz

1. Gurdjieff / de Hartmann - "The Struggle of The Magicians Part Three"
2. Gail Laughton - "Pompeii 76 A.D."
3. Nesta Kerin Crain - "Gongs in the Rain"
4. Wilburn Burchette - "Witch's Will"
5. Iasos - "Formentera Sunset Clouds"
6. Steven Halpern - "Seventh Chakra Keynote B (Violet)"
7. Joel Andrews - "Seraphic Borealis"
8. Constance Demby - "Om Mani Padme Hum"
9. Daniel Emmanuel - "Arabian Fantasy"
10. Don Slepian - "Awakening (excerpt)"
11. Laraaji - "Unicorns in Paradise (excerpt)"
12. Peter Davison - "Glide V"
13. Joanna Brouk - "Lifting Off"
14. Michael Stearns - "As the Earth Kissed the Moon (excerpt)"
15. Aeoliah - "Tien Fu: Heaven's Gate (excerpt)"
16. Daniel Kobialka - "Blue Spirals"
17. Larkin - "Two Souls Dance"
18. Judith Tripp - "Li Sun"
19. Mark Banning - "Lunar Eclipse (excerpt)"
20. Alice Damon - "Waterfall Winds"

have heard less than half of these! definitely excited about this.

I did end up going to the tim story / michael stearns night of ambicon 2013 and was glad I did

this is epic

how do i hear more of wilburn burchette?

This might be comp of the year in terms of overall presentation/tie-in with current underground trends/sheer quality of content over such a long running time. It's really addictive, all I've been playing since the beautiful vinyl landed last week.

yeah it's been in daily rotation since i got it

so good

Comp looks interesting, I only know iasos, halpern and laaraji from those...

Bought the vinyl box yesterday. Nice packaging and filled with great music. Worth the $35.

love this comp. I was worried it just wouldn't work; it can be a challenge to make a compilation of immersive ambient music that still flows well, especially when so many of the pieces are so iconoclastic / strange. but this is just great. even in the cases of the artists I'd heard of, they pick tracks that are obscure but still very representative (best example -- I love Don Slepian's process music work with the Alles synthesizer more than his live keyboard & flute music, so 'Sea Of Bliss' is a hallmark new age record for me, but I did not know about his other all-Alles cassette only album 'Open Spaces' -- http://www.discogs.com/Don-Slepian-Open-Spaces/release/556677)

the weekly music from the hearts of space show changed tack pretty dramatically in the late 80's as new age evolved, this compilation captures just how truly weird that show sounded to me in the early to mid-80's when I occasionally caught it on KPFA on sunday nights while trying desperately to do all the homework I'd put off all weekend. captures it a lot better than the HoS CD compilations & syndicated shows that came out later.

i would wholeheartedly add these to the search pile

http://images.junostatic.com/full/CS508535-01A-BIG.jpg

http://www.ebreggae.com/i595/M119219W595.jpg

One thing I really enjoyed was Mark Pilkington's New Age documentary "Crystal Voyagers" that was hosted on the Wire website:

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Just watching some of that again and I had forgotten how beautiful the Gurdjieff movements are. Must sit and watch Meetings With Remarkable Men one day.

Picked up the LITA comp today. Very, very good.

came out on friday in vinyl, just listening to it today...

great mix of tracks....Works well for a comp that spans 40 years.

that laraaji album is spectacular in every way & the liner notes are great

does the LITA vinyl come w/ a download code?

yes

xpost yes the laraaji comp is tremendous

it has the full version of this bad boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwJtCY_R-5E

http://www.self-titledmag.com/2013/09/26/all-saints-launch-reissues-series-with-laraaji-compilation-rare-albums/

http://www.finderskeepersrecords.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/FKR068-web.jpg

^ just come out on Finders Keepers, sounds p good

http://www.finderskeepersrecords.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/emerald_web_in_studio.jpg

ohhhh sweet

I like to think that the poster above their heads actually just says "WEB"

it actually says NO LOVE DEEP WEB

that keyboard - has that actually got a strap on it or is it just the cable going over his shoulder? be a shame if it's just the latter tbh

FYI cause this thread was bumped yesterday I checked the LITA website, which said that the vinyl of I Am The Light had sold out. So I went and bought it, fabulous stuff. My dad & stepmom were right in the middle of that early 80's cassette-and-new-age-bookstore scene, it is a blast from the past.

Bought this on CD, immediately wished I'd bought it on vinyl. Great comp.

Only (very minor) complaint: the track-by-track liner notes are good (not great - serious dearth of info re: what instruments were used, etc) but was surprised by the lack of overarching introductory material; the booklet just sorta dives right into the profiles. I guess I'm used to comps like Nigeria Special and stuff, which frame the music in historical context, but I realize, of course, that's much easier to do when you're dealing with a mere decade of highlife and juju produced by a single region.

Guess what I'm saying is I'd v happily read a book about this stuff.

me too, the profiles were pretty interesting! now that you mention it a bit more gear talk would have been nice.

Psyched for the emerald web reissue!
This album is pretty cool: http://waxidermy.com/pauline-anna-strom-trans-millenia-consort/

bought the 'i am the center' comp on vinyl, would have paid twice as much for how good it is. really intrigued by constance demby, her cut on the comp is incredible. as is everything else, tbh. been a steven halpern head for some time already.

Constance Demby is all over the place. 'Novus Magnificat' was her breakthrough album and it is good enough but there are albums where she goes much further out. 'Sacred Space Music' and 'Sunborne' are worth checking out if you like her track on the comp.

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=664186
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=664125

They are kind of on the same page as the Alice Coltrane / Turiya cassettes. With more phasing & space echo.

http://www.discogs.com/Alice-Coltrane-Turiyasangitananda-Divine-Songs/master/606598

Where are you guys finding this on vinyl for $35? Lowest I've found is $45. As I said, I'm regretting buying this on CD (even though the idea of flipping a record six times seems to defeat some of the wall-gazing appeal of this set a bit)

i found it at mount analog in l.a. for $35. i think you can mail order from their site, if it's still available.

yeah I got it for $35 at House of Records in Eugene, they are pals with the label fwiw.

Nah, Light in the Attic is sold out. May just have to pull the trigger at $45...

http://climbmountanalog.com/products-page/main-2/va-i-am-the-center-private-issue-new-age-music-in-america-1950-1990-box/

constance demby cut is amazing. also really like wilburn burchette.