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Brad White & Pierre Grill
With "Voyage" (1994) White
and Grill established their
exotic, signature palette of
panpipes, flutes, recorders
and keyboard.
Chris Spheeris
Spheeris applies the folk
guitar music of his Greek
heritage toward popular,
keyboard-based New Age
compositions. Being of rel...
Constance Demby
She is one of New Age's
most innovative
instrumentalists, and her
1986 album is considered
the most important in the...
David Arkenstone
Inspired by the musical uses
of computers in the late
'80s, he composes
acoustic/electronic hybrids
for TV and stereo. Arkens...
David Lanz
Lanz is celebrated for New
Age solo piano works like
1988's "Cristofori's Dream,"
full of lucid, reflective
melodies. "Cristofori's Dre...
Deep Forest
They scored their first
commercial success in 1993
with a fusion of indigenous
chants with Dance Pop
electronics. True appreci...
Enigma
Launched by the early
Ambient House crossover
hit "Sadeness" (1990),
Enigma turned to slick, New
Age-flavored Dance Pop. E...
EnyaA former member of
Clannad, Ireland's Eithne Ni
Bhraonain is the voice
behind Enya's angelic new
age/Celtic sound. Enya, th...
Gary Lamb
Lamb's R&B influences lend a
warm, energetic, childlike
feel to the sophistication of
his later (1990-) piano
compositions. After growi...
George Winston
Winston's "rural folk piano"
excursions made him one of
the earliest (1982) icons of
Contemporary
Instrumental/New Age. Wi...
Jean-Michel Jarre
Debuting in 1976 with
Oxygene, Jarre
revolutionized electronic
music, becoming the first
popular artist in the genre...
Jim Brickman
Brickman's grasp of tidy pop
songcraft makes his new
age piano pieces heard
everywhere from "Sesame
Street" to Windham Hill. Al...
Kitaro
Inspired by Klaus Schulze in
1972, this Japanese
composer focused on lush,
gentle electronics that
paved the way for New A...
Ottmar Liebert
Liebert's fluid Flamenco
guitar lines are often
backed by tasteful tropical
rhythms. This reclusive but
accessible '90s guitarist p...
Patrick O'Hearn
Though a top pop/jazz
bassist, it was O'Hearn's
sonically innovative solo
synthwork (1985-) that
made his name. Early in his...
Paul Winter
Winter started out as a jazz
musician. Then he got more
interested in world music
and the environment. The
result? New age! Winter h...
Ray Lynch
Lynch's classical guitar
training made his '80s trilogy
of contemporary electronic
LPs uncommonly resonant
and influential. Inspired b...
Stevan Pasero
With his first recordings in
1986, Pasero launched his
career as both guitarist and
Contemporary Instrumental
producer. Pasero served a...
Steven Halpern
Halpern and his Sound Rx
releases (1975-) explore
"anti-frantic alternatives"
and definitive New Age
keyboard styles. Halpern...
Tangerine Dream
Fusing surreal Berlin-school
rock and electronics, TD
were the greatest influence
on progressive sounds of
the '80s and '90s Founder...
The Paul Haslem Consort
Haslem's exquisite dulcimer
performances also
incorporate his craft as a
twenty-first century
troubadour and storytelle...
Tim Story
Vangelis
Already a most
accomplished
new-electronic composer,
Vangelis won an Oscar in
1982 for his "Chariots of Fi...
Wayne Gratz
William Ackerman
As a best-selling guitarist,
producer for George
Winston, and president of
Windham Hill, Ackerman is a
new age paragon. "Windh...
Yanni
This self-taught but
sensational '90s keyboardist
infuses florid passion into a
hybrid of popular and
classical styles. Despite no...
New Age Music
New age music is a category for music that tends to be spiritual and contemplative in nature. It is as much a functional category as a stylistic one. New age music is music for reflection, contemplation, stretching, resting, reading and thinking. Unlike "lite" or "easy listening" music, new age music is composed specifically for these meditative tasks.
New age music tends to avoid heavy rhythms, harsh sounds, complex harmonies, and virtuosic display. The focus of new age music is not on the musician or composer, but on creating music that will meet your psychological needs.
New age music grew out of experimentation by a variety of composers in the 60's and 70's. Jazz and rock musicians reacted to the free-form virtuosic music that was popular at the time, and explored more meditative styles of music.
Steve Roach Structures From SilenceThe most important artist of early new age music is probably Stephen Halpern. Halpern began to make music that was intended specifically for meditation and reflection in the early seventies. He couldn't find a record company that was interested in his music, so he published it himself, and marketed through "new age" stores. These were yoga gyms, health food stores, and places that sold world clothing, incense, and spiritual items. Halpern's music is based around a very long pulse; his phrases tend to be about the length of a slow breath, making his music very relaxing.
Because new age music covers a lot of stylistic territory, both electronic and acoustic musicians have created music that could be called "new age". A lot of new age music is unexceptional; it works as background music because it waters down music, stripping away anything thoughtful or challenging. The best new age music, on the other hand, has expanded the range of musical style. Halpern's work, for example, challenges many assumptions listeners often have about music.
Many other artists have created music that falls into the new age category. Brian Eno's ambient music, especially Ambient 2, is very contemplative. Many electronic musicians have created new age music, including John Serrie, Kitaro, Aeoliah, Steve Roach and Michael Stearns. Some of the music of Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, and Klaus Schulze could be considered new age, also. Paul Horn has created acoustic new age music for 30 years[/LEFT][/LEFT].
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New Age music is a style of music originally associated with some New Age beliefs. It has its basis in the
work of various 1960s European and American electronic and acoustic musicians, and is generally characterised as being primarily instrumental and repetitively melodic in nature. Recordings of naturally occurring sounds are sometimes used as an introduction to a track or throughout the piece.
Partly due to some artists' open affiliation with various New Age beliefs, other artists and bands have specifically stated that they do not consider their own music to be New Age - although their work may be labelled that way by record labels, music retailers, or radio broadcasters.
New Age music is largely typified by modal and consonant harmonies, usually in conjunction with patches of sound effects or nature samples. New Age music includes both electronic and instrumental forms, frequently relying on sustained pads or long sequencer-based runs; and acoustic forms, featuring instruments such as flutes, piano, acoustic guitar and a wide variety of non-western acoustic instruments. In many cases, high-quality samples are used instead of natural acoustic instruments. Vocal arrangements were initially rare in New Age music but as it has evolved vocals have become more common, especially vocals featuring Sanskrit, Tibetan or Native American-influenced chants, or lyrics based on mythology such as Celtic legends. Very long songs, up to 20 minutes and more, are frequent and generally expected. Some of these characteristics could equally be said to describe the closely related genres of ambient music and space music.
During the 1980s, the term "New Age music" was introduced more widely to the public by radio stations and then by music retailers and some record companies, as a marketing tag applied to a variety of non-mainstream instrumental music styles. Radio stations in major markets (such as "the Wave" in Los Angeles) defined themselves as "New Age", while playing some New Age music and using nature sounds in their station-id's, yet those stations also heavily featured styles musically and philosophically unrelated to New Age music, for example, Smooth Jazz.
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