http://dublab.com/archive/douglas-mcgowan-the-new-age-mafia-massacre-060209/
― yogarecords, Saturday, 17 July 2010 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― fear mongrels (Abbott), Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
ANd by CIG I mean CGI
― fear mongrels (Abbott), Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgMAJnK5Bgk&feature=related
― fear mongrels (Abbott), Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
WINDHAM HILL RECORDS I GOT TODAY
― scott seward, Sunday, 15 August 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
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=rFqryp2BUtwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUp8zlMBaUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P0gK7iBcls
― PappaWheelie V, Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh man I got the Mind's Eye soundtrack in the mail today. This means today is magic.
― sharkless dick stick (Abbbottt), Thursday, 26 August 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
FREAK FLUTE
http://yfrog.com/1arqgj
― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 September 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://yingyangs.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-favourite-innovative-communication.html
^ very funny.
― jaxon, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
scott is so relentlessly blood diamonds on this thread
― 69, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
essential:
http://waxidermy.com/images/DSC029111.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBqIcYebz3o/TNJJHDwLBlI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/qFVe7K5ESwA/s1600/Peaceful+Solutions+bk.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
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
― jaxon, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
i think i left one of those somewhere recently. fort bragg?
― 69, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
what does this guy know about RAER records? i mean, he doesn't even have long hair anymore
― jaxon, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
he doesnt?
― 69, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― j., Thursday, 30 June 2011 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
Way wrong! I've seen multiple copies and I own Vol. 1-4.
― chrondos crispus (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 30 June 2011 04:44 (twelve years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Friday, 1 July 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
Oh wow. I'd totally trust your taste in music again. Your daughters are pretty cute.
― jaxon, Friday, 1 July 2011 05:37 (twelve years ago) link
rufus gets that every day from old people. oh what a lovely little girl...
― scott seward, Friday, 1 July 2011 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
im playing that peaceful solutions record right now thanks scott:)
― colby, Friday, 1 July 2011 11:52 (twelve years ago) link
i like that sam mcclellan record.
http://crystalvibrations.blogspot.com/
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 1 July 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Friday, 1 July 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
is it... christian?
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 1 July 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
well yeah all his post mason profitt stuff is.
― scott seward, Friday, 1 July 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Clarke B., Friday, 1 July 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
bought that bearns/dexter LP yesterday!
― 69, Friday, 1 July 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
why do so many new agey albums have such terrible typography?
also, scott, that photo is adorable!
― geeta, Friday, 1 July 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
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
― beta blog, Sunday, 3 July 2011 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
greg davis is awesome but http://allmusic.com/album/mutually-arising-r1611627/review is 'serene' like the universe catching on fire is serene
― j., Sunday, 3 July 2011 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Sunday, 2 October 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
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
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Monday, 23 April 2012 13:28 (twelve years ago) link
OMG
http://www.hos.com/#ambicon2013
― Milton Parker, Sunday, 17 February 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
Just spotted this... http://blog.lightintheattic.net/?p=13771
V/A – I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In American 1950-1990LITA 107 (2xCD | 3xLP Box Set)Available: October 29, 2013PRE-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 book3xLP housed in slip case w/ 3 tip-on jackets, 20-page book, and download cardBoth 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 cassetteVinyl cut by John Golden. Pressed at RTI.Remastered from original sources at 24 bit/ 96 kHz
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 book3xLP housed in slip case w/ 3 tip-on jackets, 20-page book, and download cardBoth 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 cassetteVinyl cut by John Golden. Pressed at RTI.Remastered from original sources at 24 bit/ 96 kHz
― Barnaby, Hardly, Thursday, 15 August 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link
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
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 15 August 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
this is epic
― the late great, Sunday, 10 November 2013 05:08 (ten years ago) link
how do i hear more of wilburn burchette?
― the late great, Sunday, 10 November 2013 05:11 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Sunday, 10 November 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
yeah it's been in daily rotation since i got it
so good
― the late great, Sunday, 10 November 2013 21:16 (ten years ago) link
Comp looks interesting, I only know iasos, halpern and laaraji from those...
― cog, Sunday, 10 November 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link
Bought the vinyl box yesterday. Nice packaging and filled with great music. Worth the $35.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 10 November 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Milton Parker, Monday, 11 November 2013 19:30 (ten years ago) link
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
― the late great, Monday, 11 November 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
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
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Monday, 11 November 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
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.
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Monday, 11 November 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
Picked up the LITA comp today. Very, very good.
― chromecassettes, Monday, 11 November 2013 23:53 (ten years ago) link
came out on friday in vinyl, just listening to it today...
great mix of tracks....Works well for a comp that spans 40 years.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link