"New Age Music", search and destroy.

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.

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.

*blush* Rah!

Star's End - 25 Significant STAR'S END Albums
http://www.starsend.org/25albums.html

Also, seconding the Deuter recommendation. Codona too, if they count. I guess I don't think of those records that way, but they do walk a fairly fine line.

http://usuarios.lycos.es/audionautas/Paranoias/michaelstearnsmid80s.jpg

I mean, I'd pick up an album of his in the '80's, flip it round, and see that on the back, and I'd have to fucking buy it!!

Take the NPR shows "Echoes" and "Music from the Hearts of Space", there are times those two shows are great and there are times where I cannot turn it off fast enough.

I'll be the first to admit, I can't take the celtic or indian flute music other than as musak, but I tune in as there have been a few times those shows are fantastic. Echoes did a two hour tribute to Florian Fricke of Popol Vuh when he passed away and had an hour with Brian Eno a month or so ago that was great.

"i heard this beautiful recording once of nothing but droning trombones taped in some underground catacombs and i forget the title and it's been bugging me for years"

You might be thinking of one of the recordings by the Deep Listening Band:

http://www.pofinc.org/DLBhome.html

in the early 80's, there wasn't really anything else like Stephen Hill's Hearts of Space program on the air... occasionally too much flute, but frequently it was just solid, bizarre electronic drone. also it was truly independent, he'd play weird cassette submissions you couldn't hear anywhere else.

>Deep Listening Band:

they made a few recordings in the water cistern. the debut album and The Ready Made Boomerang. (My favorite album of theirs is Non Stop Flight mainly for the last 50 minute track.)

Dempster returned to the cistern with 9 other trombonists for Underground Overlays, which is staggeringly gorgeous.

side 2 of L'Apocalypse Des Animaux. rules.

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.

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

you say "folgers commercial", i think "incest"

William Aura ‘Half Moon Bay’ is a stellar Saturday morning listen

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.

This is fabulous - perfect for Sunday evening.

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.

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.

"Popol Vuh" - check
"tambura" - check

OK I gotta hear this

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.

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.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx8hTWyUrIs96PFEUecbRnXLzfOiuBh7c

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

Description: Improvisations for Bamboo Flute (Shakuhachi) performed by Eliot Joshu and Paul Lloyd Warner (Piano) Recorded in 1977 in Kula, Maui, Hawaii

Pauline Anna Strom has passed:

pauline anna strom, 1946 - 2020 ~
a companion across time, our trans millenia consort
heartbroken 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

Damn. RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05hJWn4c--A

I have been really enjoying the new Clarissa Connelly album, it has very strong Enya energy.

I'm no expert on New Age but I've been known to enjoy "The Mummers Dance" and "Tubular Bells" from time to time.

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.

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

This is lovely. Thanks for the heads up.

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.

https://iasos.com/detalist/rol-dvd/#glimpse

I'm into https://vimeo.com/178121678

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

listening now in fact, thank you and RIP

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

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!!