"New Age Music", search and destroy.

some of these really are on their own level, that David Hykes record & the Wendy Carlos are bigger than any label. things like the Stearns and this fucking Angelic Music record, if the 17 year old me had known he would have leapt through the dimensional gate to strangle me to death if he'd known it would come to this, but I am simply a mellow guy now

I like my New Age dished out in brutal chunks, floating an inch above the plate:

3. "THE ANGELS OF COMFORT" (10:59)
The Angels of Comfort are the carriers and distributors of a golden-pink energy called the Comfort Flame - an energy specifically created to bring comfort to all Life, wherever it is needed. This energy was created when humanity began experimenting with free will in a manner wherein they began creating discomfort for themselves. These angels "deliver" this energy wherever they are sent, whenever they are called forth, and wherever they are requested. (Note: This is the "original" version of "The Angels of Comfort", from which the extended half-hour version was made and included in Iasos' "Angelic Music" album.)
Recommended Focus: "I AM a Comfort to all Life."

you know what's really exciting? i have this great record from 1977 called *Cosmic Celebration* which was a live performance of a cosmic mass done in boston and you can not only get a cd of the album now, but a dvd of the mass!!! it's sufi-rific. um, i might actually be the only one excited by this news. and who knows if i will actually shell out for the dvd. it's a VERY new age album. more new age than it is sufi mystikal.

http://www.omegatheater.org/images/cosmiccdinsert.jpg

http://www.omegatheater.org/photoscosmicalbum/Album_Cover.jpg

http://www.omegatheater.org/cosmic-celebration.php

When you come down to it New Age and New Music are mostly marketing labels, and there is of course a lot of sonic crossover.

John Schaefer on WNYC has done a show called "New Sounds" for 26 years now, and his 1987 survey New Sounds: A Listener's Guide to New Music was probably my introduction to just about everything from Steve Reich to Steve Roach.

yeah that New Sounds book was golden. so many comprehensive reviews, and he went far across the genre lines, from the serious stuff to the sufiest, as long as it was interesting music. I inhaled that book whole in the late 80's, and reread it two years ago and thank god he wrote it, not only is it good to have it all under one cover, so many of those things are long out of print or only came out on cassette, that book is a precious document

i'm with you on the mellow. i like stuff like this:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/armstronglaroche4

(they were on philo, the folk label, originally. i have a nice promo copy and every time i think about maybe putting it on ebay or something i play it and i'm reminded how lovely it is!)

We should probably have a thread on modern Masses. There's Arvo Part's De Profundus, David Hyke's album Harmonic Meetings pretty much has the form, Daniel Lentz's "Missa Umbrarum"...there's a Lebanese female Christian chant album entitled Divine Rites credited to Vox...

Though that last album (Vox - Divine Rites) isn't really in mass form. Its rather similar to the Jocelyn Montgomery & David Lynch album of modern Hildegard interpretations, Lux Vivens, only with an oriental cast.

well start the thread, most of what I know about modern choral music is all secular & depraved so it'd be a nice break

the online samples of that 'Cosmic Celebration' record are beautiful! they really pulled it off, seems like

okay, obviously i don't read carefully enough. no need to send them my 40 bucks for this:

"DVD of a slide show of the Cambridge 1983 Production with some slides from others, with an introduction, and two Cable T.V. interviews and a live performance piece from the production: $40, plus shipping"

i was hoping they had the cosmic cameras rolling in 1977 :(

wow thanks for reminding me about stuart dempster. i really dig 'underground overlays', and i agree that calling him 'new age' is a stretch.

i saw him talk with ramon sender, morton subotnick, and don buchla (inventor of the buchla box- he even brought it along!), among others, when the book about the san francisco tape music center came out a few months back. i guess dempster played trumpet tones in the broadway tunnel as a part of sender, ken dewey, and anthony martin's "city scale" piece/installation in 1963. i guess the piece required audience members to be shuttled around town to experience things like said tunnel, a woman in a storefront window singing debussy, a 'book returning' ceremony at city lights, light projections on to the side of a wells fargo, and a lot more as depicted in the super abstract score in the book

I love Iasos' "Inter-Dimensional Music", if that counts.

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?