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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 06 2012 at 18:02 | |
A Precursor doesn't make it part of it.
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wilmon91
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Posted: May 06 2012 at 18:19 | |
I only use the term New Age loosely....
I admire a little known artist called Jean Pierre Limborg who has done music , kind of like spiritual ambient electronic with world/ethnic ingredients and stuff. His first album is one of my favourite albums. Some of his later also has a bit of chill-out ingredients, just soft relaxing grooves, but very well produced. Many of those later albums are made for different series that the record label has issued, for example a "Feng Shui" series, were one of those albums are by Limborg, others are by other artists . I really like a lot of the stuff he's made, the sounds and production and atmosphere is very appealing.
It's interesting to look at his influences listed at myspace:
"brian eno, peter gabriel, magma, dead can dance, bartok, mahler, the who, hadouk trio, trilok gurtu, robert wyatt, soft machine, hildegard von bingen, king crimson, daniel lanois, sigur ros, les voix bulgares, jan garbarek, björk, van der graaf generator, richard strauss, morton feldman, webern, von magnet, josef zawinul, los neutrinos, steve reich, sufjan stevens, yvinek, goldfrapp, beck, bhimsen joshi, philip glass, kishori amonkar...and so many wonders in this world, worth to fight for..."
"Somewhere between Dead Can Dance and Eno, trip-hop and world, ambient and emotronic, Limborg is following his own path of audacious and generous musician. " I only found one track on youtube but there's more on his myspace http://www.myspace.com/limborg
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wilmon91
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Posted: May 06 2012 at 18:21 | |
1492 is great too! Edited by wilmon91 - May 06 2012 at 18:21 |
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wilmon91
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Posted: May 06 2012 at 18:33 | |
Moya Brennan – Two Horizons Nice album, I like this song
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Dean
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Posted: May 06 2012 at 18:55 | |
^ ah, Enya's big sister. Clannad and the Clannad clan (love them or loath them) have created some really nice music... ...and I think that is part of the problem with New Age for some people - it's too nice, even when it's complex and highly structured,or just well written and performed it comes over as "nice"... and once you hit that epithet you're kind of stuck in a limbo with nowhere to go and "nice" can never be "great". Shame because some great music has been produced under the banner of New Age. Edited by Dean - May 06 2012 at 18:56 |
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richardh
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Posted: May 07 2012 at 01:12 | |
However labels as we all know are meaningless. Oldifeld is into some new agey things very clearly. How many near breakdowns has he had? I guess he needs some calmess. The Songs Of Distant Earth and Tres Lunas offer that in spades. Would he go 'apesh*t' being called 'New Age' . No he wouldn't but I expect he would point out the wide ranging body of work he has every reason to be proud of and that his music goes further than just the narrow confines of one genre.
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octopus-4
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Posted: May 07 2012 at 01:21 | |
Thinking of Oldfield and newage Song Of Distant Earth is what has come immediately to my mind. The novel on which the concept is based is quite newage, too.
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Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half.
My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
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clarke2001
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Posted: May 07 2012 at 01:29 | |
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