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The genre of calm, tranquil music known as New Age emerged from several conflicting trends in popular music in the 1960s and 1970s. It originated on one level from the electronic music (some-times referred to as "space music") of the late 1960s. Itself a nascent musical form, electronic music was embraced by groups like Tangerine Dream, and ...
Brian Eno, known to mainstream listeners as record producer who has worked with U2 and David Bowie, is also a highly influential composer and founder of the ambient music genre, whose long, soothing passages marked by gradual transitions put it squarely under the New Age banner. Eno’s influence is heavy on Bowie’s “Heroes,” and “Moss ...
New age music is a genre that emerged in the 1970s and is characterized by its soothing and relaxing soundscapes. It often incorporates elements of world music, electronic music, and classical music. The music is intended to promote relaxation, meditation, and spiritual growth.
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 ...
This Category recognizes excellence in albums of New Age recordings. New Age music is generally ambient, exploratory and journey-like in nature, welcoming dissonance and consonance alike. It represents a widening Field in which various elements and influences from pop, jazz, classical, folk, downtempo, ambient, atmospheric, electronic, and avant-garde idioms may combine to serve the intention ...
Feb 28, 2024 · In 1976, jazz musician turned experimental artist, Steven Halpern, would release his first new age album Spectrum Suite, which like Scott’s Music for Zen Meditation, is now considered one of the very first definitive albums of the genre—released at a turning point when the many names of the new age music sound (space music, new age ambient ...
Oct 12, 2016 · Vintage new age music from the 1970s and 1980s continues its process of rediscovery, possibly without the baggage that originally surrounded it the first time around. ... (1987), in particular, is ...
