"New Age Music", search and destroy.

welcome to the slippery slope, space brother

xpost Tony Martin / Ramon Sender play 'Desert Ambulance' w/ Pauline on Feb 22

I would pay all this money for Unarius Documentaries Soundtrack CD box set

i wonder if they can still be contacted. you could make some sweet compilations of this type of stuff... http://www.globalpeacefoundation.org/Video/GlobalPeaceCenter/GlobalPeaceCenter2.mov

thanks for the heads up about desert ambulance, btw. i will definitely be in attendance

Unarius is absolutely still active, they have a booth every year at the Whole Earth Expo. Video artist / scholar Nate Boyce took Drew & Martin & I on a expedition / homage trip to buy DVDR transfers of their films, and they were good people. The late 70's / early 80's was the heyday for their video production team, they're mostly recycling the effects from their early films, but anyone who's seen those early films agree that they are unconditional classics.

I just bought this for $2 the other day:

http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/prod_lrg_images/203/60185203.jpg

/ recycling the effects from their early films these days... but they still believe

ok I made a seperate thread: UNARIUS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE

tell me this guy didn't have somewhat of an impact on the eventual arbitrary coloring scheme of the images coming back from hubble

http://iasos.com/artists/chandler/

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

and his record 'Starscapes' from 1980 is exactly the thing

We'd go through a whole box of Celestial Seasonings Red Zinger in a night.

mark r's link to his "resonant frequency" article from above no longer works. can i still read it somewhere?

wow unarius now have their own youtube channel with pretty much all the vids theyve done http://www.youtube.com/user/unarius33#p/u

akaky: dug around their site and this link should work:

resonant frequency #12

This thread just made me check to see if Musical Starstreams radio program is still extant; it is! http://www.starstreams.com/

Everytime I hear some sort of "spacy tinkles" music on public radio, I always put on my narcoleptic announcer voice and make up artists and titles: "Fromm the CD... Voyage of the Healer... that's Celestial ... Illumination... here on Musical... Starstreams...

http://dublab.com/archive/douglas-mcgowan-the-new-age-mafia-massacre-060209/

I love James Reynlods' soundtrack for the "Mind's Eye" early CIG clips video...I love it soooo much.

http://a1.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/020/Music/87/05/6b/mzi.omghtmuw.170x170-75.jpg

ANd by CIG I mean CGI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgMAJnK5Bgk&feature=related

WINDHAM HILL RECORDS I GOT TODAY

WDW Tomorrowland for most of the '80s & '90s was drenched in New Age + Contempo Jazz.

The songs in that list I've grown to LOVE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFqryp2BUtw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUp8zlMBaU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P0gK7iBcls

Oh man I got the Mind's Eye soundtrack in the mail today. This means today is magic.

FREAK FLUTE

http://yfrog.com/1arqgj

http://yfrog.com/1arqgj

http://yingyangs.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-favourite-innovative-communication.html

^ very funny.

scott is so relentlessly blood diamonds on this thread

essential:

http://waxidermy.com/images/DSC029111.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBqIcYebz3o/TNJJHDwLBlI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/qFVe7K5ESwA/s1600/Peaceful+Solutions+bk.jpg

also essential:

http://images.wax.fm/sam_mcclellan_music_of_five_elements-JSG7007-1302195131.jpeg

http://images.wax.fm/sam_mcclellan_music_of_five_elements-JSG7007-1302195166.jpeg

http://images.wax.fm/sam_mcclellan_music_of_five_elements-JSG7007-1302195158.jpeg

he is wrong about this statement, because i have a copy

search:
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, March 23, 2004 4:20 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think i left one of those somewhere recently. fort bragg?

what does this guy know about RAER records? i mean, he doesn't even have long hair anymore

he doesnt?

My good friend is Paul Horn's granddaughter. Once he re-connected with his family, she suddenly is hanging out with Donovan and Paul McCartney, Horn's good friends after they all hung out in India years ago from what I understand.

weird, super receptor posted a link to

http://soundcloud.com/darylgroetsch

on the rolling psych/drone thread and it instantly made me remember 'hearts of space'—which is still going! and i guess mentioned on ilm in this very thread.

he is wrong about this statement, because i have a copy

Way wrong! I've seen multiple copies and I own Vol. 1-4.

maybe i just didn't know anyone else who owned that album in 2004? i dunno. i don't get out much. my hair is getting longer too.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NCgF5LdP5Co/Tg0O4uO2ZYI/AAAAAAAAACM/mo-kSVykA0o/s1600/sewardboys.jpg

Oh wow. I'd totally trust your taste in music again. Your daughters are pretty cute.

rufus gets that every day from old people. oh what a lovely little girl...

im playing that peaceful solutions record right now thanks scott:)

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