"New Age Music", search and destroy.

^^^ excellent record and oddly cocteaus-esque in places

this thread has my name on it. i love the LITA comp and i love claire hamill!

the more I think about it the weirder it is that the Wilburn Burchette track is on this, it seems very incongruous to me in both sound and ideology. on the other hand, if LITA is gonna reissue his 3 LPs, I am all for it.

the guy kinda freaks me out tbh, I feel like he may have transcended this reality

I like the Wilburn Burchette comp track better than either of the two albums I have by him (though I will admit I haven't listened to those albums in years)

wonder if he still lives in spring valley california

i hadn't heard michael stearns before this, his track is beeeyutiful

Several 'chillwave' acts and artists like Chairlift, Grimes and Julianna Barwick sound too close to Enya for it to be accidental.

I love Michael Stearns. 'Ancient Leaves', 'Morning/Jewel' & 'Planetary Unfolding' are pretty definitive space music records, came out very earl, incredibly influential. 'Lyra Sound Constellation' is a collaboration with instrument builder George Landry, if you like bowed metal drones that lean towards heartier cosmic dissonances then you definitely want to hear that one: http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=512399

& of course best known for the soundtracks to 'Chronos' & 'Baraka' and 'Samara'.

The Wilburn Burchette track had me running to the internet to hear more, but had no luck. Mutant Sounds had three of his records, links all dead. RIP Mutant Sounds.

Had the tattered mp3's of Geoffrey Chandler's 'Starscapes' on again last night. That would have been a good candidate for inclusion on this compilation, it really needs a reissue.

xp after the last five years very few people would be embarrassed about having Enya for an influence

I wasn't saying they should feel embarrassed, I actually like their music. Just asking if they could apply as 'new age' artists since I would choose some tracks from there.

Otherwise, another vote for Ash Ra Tempel.

On the nu-flamenco new-age side of things Ottmar Liebert, Johannes Linstead and Armik actually wrote some very popular songs (at least in latinamerica and the mediterranean) which are well worth a listen. Liebert's Barcelona Nights and Santa Fe are practically 'stairway to heaven' for guitarists over here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTrhxVwz0_g

how about some destroys?

i'l throw out andreas vollenweider ...

my best friend used to love vollenweider. I've never dared to listen to him.

vollenweider is great, but maybe not as "new age music" per se

vollenweider is not great, beardo revaluation be damned

so saccharine, so not transcendent.

http://www.discogs.com/Andreas-Vollenweider-The-Trilogy/master/82258

^^ this was my dip into vollenweider and i didn't enjoy it

am i looking in the wrong place?

I had a friend who LOVED Vollenweider in the 80s but back then I was the kind of dickhead who couldn't get past the dude's hair

now I'll even listen to Kitaro, I straight do not give a fuck, new age for life

if you're looking for balearic windham hill-style pop-classical harp jams from the 1980s he's kinda the only game in town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwgUNwA6vz0

too cheesy to be new age, but definitely more palatable than your metheny-types

LOL aero my best friend who loved vollenweider in the 80s is a mutual friend of yours and mine but I don't think you knew him til later...

yeah that trilogy thing has pretty much all of the good stuff but i could not imagine listening to even one of those albums in one sitting. it sounds great in the context of an early-era cafe del mar mixtape, it fits perfectly with that whole vibe in small doses

the only person I know of who I know loves A.W. is a woman so idk who this friend is! mysteries!

I am now floating along on the Quintessential Kitaro collection on Spotify...ahhh....whole room feels like a massage studio

too cheesy to be new age

i'm inclined to say destroy kitaro but i actually love his work with the far east family band

he has a bunch of proggy looking late 70s things that look like they might be good

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1786734

I am making a huuuge spotify playlist for this thread called Sternherzen, will link it when ready

xpost aero he draws comics and his last name rhymes with Sklart. Pls tease him abt andreas sometime.

ha oh word

gahh i love those first two vollenweider albums.

tell me what there is to love about them, maybe i will give it another shot

I actually really like his harp sound, so if that just puts you off, I can understand. I also like the lush atmospbere, the plainness of the synths, the melodies.

cheesy, yeah. "New age of earth"/klaus schulze/TD/most 'kosmiche' is pretty cheesy too, imo, but i have wack taste in general.

i agree with psychgwple that a little goes a long way, however. 1 lp (or side) at a time is enough.

i love love love ash ra / td / schulze/

Those don't sound cheesy to me though. Wonder if I could narrow down what I mean when I say cheesy?

Maybe an analog vs digital thing? Also the attempt to replicate an "atmosphere", or "setting" (like, a cave) is sillier than just some abstract cosmic riffing. Don't get me wrong, i love it all (not klaus so much, though).

Anybody know about the Palace Of Lights label? http://www.discogs.com/label/Palace+Of+Lights
I have a K. Leimur album that is pretty cool. A couple tracks are like minimal soft focus proto-ambient house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUxV6_ewLR0

Ok i haven't listened to it in awhile, i misremembered there being a fat 4x4 kick here. Still dope, though.

^ feeling this, also feeling the claire hamill from above. k. leimer has like 9 albums on spotify

I haven't heard much Emerald Web but I absolutely love their song "Refraction" on Dream Chimney's excellent "New Visions" mix. It is basically instrumental synth pop, though, and I imagine most of their stuff is less beat driven.

i checked out claire hamill's voices and it is gooooorgeous. tracks like 'tides' are definitely proto-grimes etc.

if ashra are suitable material for this kind of thread then i've also been digging correlations lately, 'oasis' has the most blissful vibes of anything ever.

Yeah, "oasis" is wonderful.

picked up the emerald web yesterday, wasn't feeling it so much. not really "weird" enough i guess.

sadly i'm not really feeling this one yet, either

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0192/7084/products/laraaji_two_sides_1024x1024.jpg?v=1383003823

the second disc turns out to be the entirety of this bargain bin trip-hop "classic", will teach me to look more closely at track listings

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/39184833/The+Way+Out+Is+the+Way+In+audio_activelaraajithe_way_out.jpg

I listen to this comp p much every day now

Biggest revelation to me on the LITA comp so far is Aeoliah, which is currently touching many of my Popol Vuh buttons

man I started reading that daughter's remembrance of her mom (the "Waterfall" track) out loud to my wife the other night and totally choked up, that is some deep & beautiful imagery there.

Aeoliah is one of the early standouts for me as well. love the picture too, the guy looks like an awesomely manic nutjob (in the best possible way).

aeoliah looks like if george michael were the leader of a suicide cult, writing hymns to himself on his zither and boffing teenage girls.

due to this thread, i have dug this out of the archive ..

http://www.discogs.com/Charly-McLion-The-Nature-Of-The-Universe/release/41604

i think the cover says it all really.

gorgeous stuff for a hangover session.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_uQ679Lm3rs/TfQtLWTy4TI/AAAAAAAAFbY/lKL-39Javsc/s1600/Henry%2BWolff%2B%2526%2BNancy%2BHennings%2B%25E2%2580%2593%2BTibetan%2BBells%2BII%2B-.jpg

Part of me felt hennings/wolff were missing from IATC. The four records in that series are great. (The one with Mickey Hart is ok too, I should listen to it again, and the last of the four where they get more into electronic processing threw me at first but i love it now). Their sound is a lot more intense and sharp than a lot of the other stuff on the compilation (active meditation music as opposed to restful) so it might have been difficult to find a spot for them that didn't wreck the flow.

xp title looks like "tibetan bullshit"

isn't the thing abt Hennings/Wolf that Antilles (that's the one I have) doesn't qualify as "private press"? it's outside the remit of the comp.

I misremembered the first one as being indie, but even that one was Island, so you're absolutely right.

ok starting to better understand the emerald web reissue. it's kind of all over the place, but i like it. i really like the incongruous chillwave-y track ("ars nova") and i like songs like "dragons gate" that do the stiff and chilly john carpenter electro thing. and the exotica tracks are good too. still getting into the second half.