Marcome has written a wonderful post about the term new age music.

She writes:

I often feel the new age label repulses people. It seems to mean, massage, yoga, meditation music, esoteric, new age era but not in a good sense. As if new age music was only meant to make you fall asleep!

It surely is a relaxing music at times but can’t it also be a good companion in the encounter of our true nature? A mean to connect with our inner world while dancing, walking, hiking?

I think this is spot on. It illustrates both the strong and weak aspects of new age music. The discussion about the new age music term is without a doubt the most important in our genre. It is in this discussion the lines between jazz, pop, dance, classical, new age ect. ect. are drawn.

Read the whole blog post here. It is very good!