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At its beginnings, new age music was closely related to the New Age movement of beliefs. Therefore, its' contents have been constantly associated with mystical matters clearly present within the cultural movement. Today, it has become associated more with general relaxation and is taken lightly by most listeners, although a strong mystical perspective is often presented through the packaging of the music and the venues of purchase. To be specific, the mysticism present is characteristic of the 21st Century New Age movement- it draws freely from religous traditions around the world with very little deference to the clarity of the traditions' histories. This also can be applied to the music structures, instruments, and timbres. Often composers will utilize traditional instruments (or synthesized versions of them) with little relation to the musical context of their origin. For many critics, ethnomusicologists, and the like, this is the major criticism of this musical style: its vapid and potentially hegemenous appropriation of musical material and instruments.
However, the musical structures can be understood in relation to many other forms of music that are taken much more seriously. Most New Age music falls under the category of the repetitive or the static. This relates to two takes on trance music, also influenced by the music of other cultures. The Indian influenced minimalism of Terry Riley, Tony Conrad, LaMonte Young which utilized drones beginning in the Early 1960s, and also the music of Ghana (West African) derived tonal minimalism of Steve Reich. However, a more apt direct connection is with the less formal and more popularised take of Brian Eno. Also connected is the resurgence of interest in Gregorian Chant during the 1960s.
The large percentage of music described as New Age music is instrumental, and electronic, although vocal arrangements are also common. In many cases, very few acoustic instruments are used and high-quality samples are used instead. Enya, who won a Grammy for her new age music, sings in a variety of languages, including Latin, in many of her works. Medwyn Goodall , not as widely known, relies mainly on electronic keyboard effects, and includes acoustic guitar as well. Although more rock than new age in genre the 1967 successful musical Hair with its opening song "Aquarius" and the memorable line "This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius" brought the "New Age" concept to the attention of a huge world wide audience. Arguably, this music has its roots in the 1970s with the works of such free-form jazz groups recording on the ECM record label such as Oregon , the Paul Winter Group, and other pre-ambient bands; as well as ambient musicAmbient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music and even noise. It is chiefly identifiable as having an overarchin performers such as Brian EnoBrian Peter George St. Jean le Baptiste de la Salle Eno usually given as Eno (born May 15, 1948), is an electronic musician, producer, and music theorist who started his musical career with Roxy Music. He then went on to produce a number of highly eclecti. It is often claimed that Mike OldfieldMichael Gordon Oldfield (born May 15, 1953 in Reading, England) is a multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends rock, ethnic and classical music. Oldfield's parents were Maureen and Raymond Oldfield. His sister Sally and brot's "Tubular Bells" was the first new age album.
Music labeled New Age often is intended to represent a vision of a better future, expresses an appreciation of goodness and beauty, even an anticipation, relevant to some event. Rarely does New Age music dwell on a problem with this world or its inhabitants and is generally apolitical; instead it offers a peaceful vision of a better world. Since most of the music is instrumental, rather than vocal, these interpretations are often left to the listener's imagination. Often the music is celestial, such as when the title names stars or deep space explorations. Ennio MorriconeEnnio Morricone (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer, especially noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores of more than 400 films, only 30 of them Westerns. It is, however, for his Westerns that he is best known, and his sparse styl wrote the entire score for the movie Mission to Mars , and while the credits flash we hear All the Friends, New Age orchestral style. In addition to the name "New Age" some composers and listeners refer to the music as "Space Music." An interesting connection to make here is with other composers interested in metaphors of space, but with contrasting aesthetics such as Karlheinz StockhausenKarlheinz Stockhausen (born August 22 1928) is a contemporary composer. Born in Burg Modrath, near Cologne (German: Koln , he studied at the Cologne Musikhochschule and University (1947-51), at Darmstadt in 1951 and with Olivier Messiaen in Paris (1951-53, Sun RaSun Ra ( May 22, 1914 (?) May 30, 1993) was an innovative and individual jazz composer, bandleader and piano and synthesizer player, who came to be known as much for preaching his bizarre "cosmic philosophy" as for his phenomenal musical compositions and, and even Parliament/Funkadelic . In all cases, notions of space are related to salvation in one way or another.
The titles of New Age music are often illuminating, because the words used by the artists attempt to convey their version of truth, in a few short words. On listening to the music, one may understand the idea within the title. Examples of titles: Bond of Union, Sweet Wilderness, Shepherd Moons, Animus Anima.
Other artists and record labels related to New Age music include Wyndam Hill and Tangerine DreamThis article is about the German band Tangerine Dream. Tangerine Dream is also the name of the Japanese band Do As Infinity's first single, released on September 29, 1999. For information regarding the Japanese band and their music, see: Do As Infinity Ta
The "Concordium" utopian community in Richmond, England promoted vegetarianism in the period 1842-48. They also published two magazines - "The Heatian" and "New Age". Is it any coincidence that throughout the 1980's this style of music achieved more sales in alternative medicine shops than in music stores?
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