From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: New Age vs Enya & Clannad
Date: 30 Dec 92 22:18:39 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Dec30.135241.16653@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> wd5j@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>In article <16112@auspex-gw.auspex.com>,
|johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes: 
|> In article <10763@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> billrich@caspian.ext.vt.edu (Bill Richardson) writes:
|>  
|> |New Age is some of the most atrocious "music" I have heard, seeming to  
|> |begin from the false hypothesis that you can create something entirely  
|> |"new" without any influences.
|> 
|> You haven't listened to too much new age music have you?  Nor do you seem
|> to know that the musicians creating this thing called "new age" music did
|> not up with the name "new age".  I'm not going to list a bunch of artists
|> but there is a lot of music which is classified under some marketing types
|> definition of new age music.  The actual style is quite broad.  Like any 
|> genre some of it's crap.  
|> 
|> |Enya on the other hand, has a very modern  
|> |sounding music, with a very "new" sound, but she is entirely true to her  
|> |folk roots, and does not make the pretentious claim of having created  
|> |something "new".  
|> 
|> To me Enya sounds new because her vocals almost sound as if they are sampled
|> and are just being played on a keyboard.  I also find her boring.   
|> 
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|> | John Fereira        | Auspex Systems | "Ask me about my vow of silence." |
|> | johnf@auspex.com    | Santa Clara CA |                                   |
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|What could sound more boring than typical new age music?  Boopsie, in the
|Doonesbury strip, called it "air pudding", with which I totally agree. Ugh.
 
So now we've gone from "new age" music to "typical" new age music.  Since
I don't know what you mean by "typical" newage music I'll just use what
I have found in the newage bins at various stores and come up with some
things I haven't found boring at all.

David Lanz, "Skyline Firedance" - Lanz is newage in every sense of the
word, even to the point of the preppy sweater over the shoulders look.  
Powerful solo piano work.  

Joaquin Lievano "One Mind",  Zazen "Mystery School" - an electric guitarist
with speed *and* emotion.

Peter Seiler "Passage" - features Michael Lorenz on some pretty raunchy and
innovative guitar work.

David Arkenstone - his music takes you on a journey if you take the time
to really listen to it.

Vangelis, Jarre, Jade Warrior "Way of the Sun" - instrumental stuff that
always holds my interest.

Roberto Perera - combines jazz improvization, salsa and world beat sounds
in a contempory fusion all on a paraguayan harp.

There's many more if you choose not to dismiss an entire genre.

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| John Fereira        | Auspex Systems | "Ask me about my vow of silence." |
| johnf@auspex.com    | Santa Clara CA |                                   |
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