Do they still make New Age Music?
Yes, they do - and it is just as great as it was back in 1987…
Country music scares off hibernating bear
The Charleston Gazette brings us this fascination story:
Everyone’s a critic.
Take, for instance, the bear that decided to hibernate in the crawl space of a cabin located on the grounds of Boulder Community Hospital. After the bear was discovered by a maintenance worker, hospital officials decided the potential liability was so great they couldn’t let the bruin remain on the property.
So they scared it off. They put a boom box in the crawl space, tuned it to a country music station and cranked up the volume. The next day, the bear was gone.
And ending with:
Maybe the bear found New Age music more restful. Or maybe it just got tired of hearing about drinkin’, cheatin’ and pickup trucks.
Is new age music only for senior people?
I found this post and it made me think:
I love new age music Im 19 years old my friend told me that his grandmother listen to new age music and that I am weird..
isn’t new age music…a fresh new sound. please explain
And then Greg answered:
I have a friend who is 25, and she fronts a new age band.
Age doesn’t matter when it comes to listening to music.
And Wiprincess ended it all by saying:
no you’re not weird i’m younger than you and listen 2 some music that old people listen 2
Well, then it is all OK then… 
Enya’s New Image
Not long ago many people thought this of Enya’s music:
Listening to Enya, for the average straight male, is a surefire shortcut to mockery by one’s friends and colleagues.
But things have changed.
Recently we could tell you that General Petraeus “came out” as an Enya Fan. Today we can inform you about another very masculine person who is both a fan and a colleague of Enya; her technical advisor and engineer Daniel Polley recently won the Irish Formula Vee Leinster Trophy Race at Mondello Park Racing Circuit – and that with Enya’s name and logo on the car!
So if you are an average straight male, don’t be afraid to tell people that you enjoy listening to Enya!
The most masculine of her songs – to use such a descriptions – are perhaps The Celts, Storms in Africa and Wild Child.
Picture source: Enya.com
That AWFUL Snare Drum & High Hat
I pass the below tweet on to our artist friends without further comments
A sure sign of the end times?
We always enjoy reading new age music reviews in regular media. As you know, “serious” music critics do not much like being associated with the genre. This comment in the Columbus’ News & Entertainment Weekly paper put a smile upon our faces:
A sure sign of the end times: I’ve been listening (gulp) to (gulp, gulp) a little bit of (deep gagging sound here), uh, New Age music.
And more:
Sacred Drum Visions by David and Steve Gordon is high on my early a.m. playlist. I put it on when I am oozing from the dead, transfusing coffee straight into my system, trying to get into humanoid-boogie-machine mood in order to deal with my day of High Street retail.
They mine the Native American Indian thing with a gooey sonic gauze of mournful, fuzzy flute wavering over mellow, meandering drums with some sort of mildly humming keyboard in the mix. Sounds exciting, eh?
Read the review here (scroll down).
April Fool’s Joke II
We told you about the Tubular.net April Fool’s joke. Before we move on, we just have to mention Jillian Aversa’s nice joke too:
I want to share my most recent musical project with you! Andy (“zircon”) and I consider this our best video game arrangement to date. It was a challenge to achieve the perfect balance between the game’s source material and our own original material, but we think the end result was a success.
You can listen to the end result here.
April Fools’ Day joke from Tubular.net
Mike Oldfield fanpage Tubular.net published the news that there would be a special Hergest Ridge 2010 edition out (much like the “high quality but not that popular” Tubular Bells 2003 edition) – and not only the planed re-release of the good, old Hergest Ridge.
In connection with the April Fools’ joke, a funny looking web page was published – which contains the The Hergest Ridge Supreme pizza!
When animals make New Age music
It is true. They can. Connecticut newspaper TheDay.com has this interesting comment:
The first time I ever heard whale music — which became sorta popular at the dawn of the New Age phenomenon — I literally thought it was a joke. But, no. People literally recorded the mournful cries of whales and either released them as “solo” works or put gentle, peace-inducing backing tracks comprised of lush strings or oboes or flutes or even the sound of incense sticks smoldering into a microphone.
And more:
Think about this in light of the latest killer whale/human tragedy at amusement parks. Maybe the whale’s music was a sort of primitive Siren’s Song — designed to lull us into trust and comfort so they could turn on us and shred us like sides of mutton tossed into a hay thresher!
Or perhaps killer whales have their own music distinct from the New Agey peace-shrieks of the other whales. And the killer whale music sounds like Norwegian Satan Metal, only with a slight, effervescent bubbly tone because, after all, it’s underwater.
As a Norwegian I can only say; this is very likely. Very likely indeed. I will make sure to check iTunes often for this new Satan Metal/whale music crossover.
Read the whole article here.
Listening to Enya just might be OK!
This review in newspaper Joongang Daily of Enya’s new Best of album brought a smile to our faces here .nu.
Listening to Enya, for the average straight male, is a surefire shortcut to mockery by one’s friends and colleagues. But this isn’t deserved – at least not as deserved as it would be with most other New Age music.
And more:
Though Enya may be one of the biggest influences on that genre in the last 30 years, her primary goal isn’t simply to provide a soundtrack for yoga sessions full of bland, vanilla synth drones 30 minutes long. Enya makes actual music, and her Celtic sound is as intriguing as her imitators aren’t.
Hehehe.
The “- at least not as deserved as it would be with most other New Age music” is simply hysterical!
Newsflash everybody; Enya just might be OK! :)
It is in the bass
What is the difference between new age music and club music? Well, according to review of q-JAYS earphones on webpage asiaone.com it is in the bass. Here is a quote:
Despite the q-JAYS’ dedicated woofer, I have heard stronger bass on other earphones. But for those earphones, in extreme cases, the balance of the music mix is upset and even new age music end up sounding like club music.
There is some truth to this of course. Add a strong bass line, and a new age track is ready for Cafe del Mar
Read the whole review here.
New Age Music in Bloom
The webpage Know your mobile has reviewed the iTunes application Bloom – which is a software synth for your iPhone.
What kind of music can you make with it you might ask. Well:
The simple interface, part developed by Brian Eno, is a blank screen on which you create bubbles by tapping the display. As you tap, a note rings out, and fades as the bubble expands and becomes transparent. These taps build up, repeat and mutate to give you a bizarre, new-age music, of sorts.
For all your artists out there – now you can create music when you are out and about. We here at .nu promise that we will not label your music as bizarre
Read the review of Bloom here.
Enigma music at 2009 MTV Movie Awards
When Austrian fashion reporter Brüno made his scandalous entrance at yesterday’s MTV Movie Awards, landing at Eminem’s lap, it was with Enigma’s Sadness Part 1 playing in the background.
It is not the first nor the last time this Enigma hit will be used in such a manner.
Click the picture to see the video.
Nothing stays good for long
I love the humor page TheOnion.com. Among their fine articles is this: Today’s New Age Music Is Crap by Doug Wortham from 1999. It is a great parody on, well, everything. Doug Wortham writes:
I went to Falling Water Books & Music right after work Tuesday, because I’d heard the new David Lanz CD was finally out. So I shelled out my $15.99, and raced home to listen. And you know what? It f***king blew. I’m not kidding. David Lanz has let us all down.
And even more:
Believe me, I wish it were only The Lanz. But it’s all of them. The golden age of New Age music has come and gone.
Read it here.
The Cheapest Summer Vacation
The Huffington Post is perhaps not the most serious news source out there, I’ll agree to that. But in this time of financial crisis, they recommend an ultra cheap spa vacation:
There’s nothing like a trip to a spa to soothe and restore an achy psyche. Well, almost nothing. You can get the same benefits for virtually nothing by taking a short trip through your local car wash. Like spas, car washes offer aqua therapy, exfoliation, massage, buffing, and sauna all at one destination. Some even offer waxing. Just put some new age music on your iPod and you’re good to go.
Conclusion: the car wash cleans the car, New Age Music cleans the soul.
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