Registered: Mar 2008
Location: frolicking w/ minstrels, online.
New Age Music
Anyone a fan? I'm no believer in healing crystals or astrology, but the tunes these guys make are pretty solid.
Currently listening through Enigma's monumental MCMXC a.D. I also have some stuff from Tangerine Dream, & Wang Xu-dong's Acupuncture For Mind is what got me into the stuff in the first place.
Any albums I should check out?
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Jan-05-2010 04:05
PETRAN
Like Antennas To Heaven
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Volos, Greece
All albums by Amethystium (the best in my opinion), Mythos, Deep Forest, Cusco, Mike Oldfield, some albums by Vangelis such as "Direct" and "Voices" etc., Delirium (also i used to like them less), Adiemus (for a more symphonic/choral less synth-driven account), Era (for a more medieval account!)
Jan-05-2010 04:29
SYSTEM-J
IDKFA.
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
The closest I get these days is the Ultimae ambient/psy chill stuff that leans in that direction. Full-on new age is pretty sickening stuff.
Originally posted by PETRAN
All albums by Amethystium (the best in my opinion), Mythos, Deep Forest, Cusco, Mike Oldfield, some albums by Vangelis such as "Direct" and "Voices" etc., Delirium (also i used to like them less), Adiemus (for a more symphonic/choral less synth-driven account), Era (for a more medieval account!)
I'll always put forth that Enya's first album -The Celts- is vastly underrated, though that's almost 4AD darkwave in tone than New Age.
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Jan-05-2010 22:46
PETRAN
Like Antennas To Heaven
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Volos, Greece
quote:
Originally posted by Sykonee
I'll always put forth that Enya's first album -The Celts- is vastly underrated, though that's almost 4AD darkwave in tone than New Age.
4AD FTW! Legendary dark ethereal stuff Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Clan Of Xymox etc. etc. I still listen to this stuff from time to time. More awesome (experimental and arty) than the majority of new age IMO.
And yes Vangelis is not New Age though some of his end-of-80s/90s albums like the ones i mentioned sound very new-agey. Listen to "Direct" and you will find a lot of similarities with Enigma's first albums and "Voices" coming out after the "Columbus" soundtrack is like a sweet spiritual version of that soundtrack. Vangelis was generally an electronic pioneer and some of his 70s and 80s works (like "Spiral" as one mentioned) were probably groundbreaking.