The "good New Age" music

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.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 yeah sure

 

 

the above link refers to Ommadawn as being a pre-cursor to the New Age musical movement. I guess Oldfield doesn't take much notice of his official press releases then?

 

I don't know . There were a few artists who jumped on the New Age bandwagon in the eighties . Tangerine Dream - Underwater Sunlight and Vangelis - Soil Festivities (but don't tell Moshkito he might come after me with a big knife) even Rick Wakeman with his 'Airs Trilogy'. Oldfield more or less invented it with Hergest Ridge so I think he will have a wry smile. The producer of Tubular Bells , Tom Newman also got involved before Oldfield re-employed him for TB2 in the early nineties. It was a very interesting little genre that developed well beyond just whale sounds and the sound of a stream. Many creative people got involved so I doubt that Oldfield would throw a fit somehow.