"New Age Music", search and destroy.

UK-centric ILX had some weird blind spots, see also Tom Petty

there was definitely a different more specific ethos going on

not that i'm disparaging this thread! i actually think the early posts in this thread is some of ilm'n at its finest

Pauline Anna Strom compilation on RVNG is fantastic

Björn J:Son Lindh - Transea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xRV0RoBSNE

i'm ticked that peter davison's "glide" (which is a good record) has all sorts of hipster newage cred (though the rest of his extensive discography is completely unknown) while douglas adams' "light rain" languishes in unheard obscurity

Traces from 1985 is nice

(davison album)

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!!