― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link
*blush* Rah!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link
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― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link
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― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link
Star's End - 25 Significant STAR'S END Albums http://www.starsend.org/25albums.html
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago) link
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!!
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago) link
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― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 19:16 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 19:31 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 19:36 (twenty years ago) link
"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
― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago) link
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― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― (Jon L), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:19 (twenty years ago) link
side 2 of L'Apocalypse Des Animaux. rules.
― (Jon L), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago) link
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― Broheems (diamond), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 02:23 (twenty years ago) link
Both of the shows I mentioned are still play some obscure, unsigned artists. I listen to both quite often, usually as I go to bed.
Someone that I heard on "Echoes" that I would like to hear an album is Cliff Martinez. He played drums with Beefheart and was an early member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and now he makes film soundtracks including many for Stephen Soderberg including Solaris, Narc, and Traffic. I've actually not seen these movies, but the music they played was interesting and had some really interesting sounds.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 03:49 (twenty years ago) link
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― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 13 May 2004 11:20 (nineteen years ago) link
FYI - I got a great album in the mail. Eluvium - An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death (temporaryresidence ltd.)
Its solo piano by a guy named Matthew Cooper. Like Sate, Winston, and Budd all wrapped up in a big sad ball. Really beautiful stuff.
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 May 2004 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Winston: Fascinating guy to talk to, and he's extremely talkative. Deeply encyclopedic in his musical knowledge when it comes to ragtime and New Orleans piano music, and completely dismissive of the "New Age" tag -- he prefers "folk piano," which is kind of silly (cue Tom Lehrer joke here). I've seen him live twice, and didn't regret it either time -- he spends more time playing interpretations of Randy Newman, Frank Zappa, the Doors, etc., than doing his own stuff. Pretty good guitarist and harmonica player in his own right as well. Easily the humblest platinum-selling artist around, and though he's a bit eccentric, there's nothing terribly New-Agey about the fellow.
At least early on, WH was a fascinating business -- they completely owned its market, and it got record stores to create "Windham Hill" sections, a remarkable accomplishment for any label, let alone a relatively small Bay Area indie. But the market got polluted with lots of Narada knockoff shit, and today Windham Hill drinks its own Kool-Aid, releasing junk like Lullaby that repurposes the mid-'80, Shadowfax-sick back catalog. There's some amusingly angry agitation against the label on its own Web site (www.windham.com), with old fans demanding the re-issues of the (good) old records, which the label or its BMG parent has refused to do.
― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Damn. RIP
― groovypanda, Monday, 14 December 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05hJWn4c--A
I have been really enjoying the new Clarissa Connelly album, it has very strong Enya energy.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 12:17 (three years ago) link
I'm no expert on New Age but I've been known to enjoy "The Mummers Dance" and "Tubular Bells" from time to time.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 13:06 (three years ago) link
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.
― sleeve, Friday, 27 August 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link
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
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
This is lovely. Thanks for the heads up.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
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.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 6 February 2023 23:02 (one year ago) link
https://iasos.com/detalist/rol-dvd/#glimpse
I'm into https://vimeo.com/178121678
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Saturday, 29 April 2023 23:14 (one year ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 15:44 (nine months ago) link
listening now in fact, thank you and RIP
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 15:49 (nine months ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 18:55 (nine months ago) link
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!!
― the late great, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 20:31 (nine months ago) link