The "good New Age" music

 

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..."

 

 

I only found one track on youtube but there's more on his myspace  http://www.myspace.com/limborg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.