new age music
Articles about new age music:
Atlantis Rising/ Illumination 2
Atlantis Rising is the title song from a CD by San Francisco Bay area recording artist Michael Diamond with special guest Steven Halpern.
The song was composed by Steven Halpern on keyboards and includes Michael on guitar-synth and E-bow guitar. Read more…
Composer and sound designer Michael Whalen has released his latest album, The Tree Of Life.
You may download the recording as a free MP3 85 meg or full bandwidth 1.1 GB aiff.
Description:
The Tree Of Life is a continuous 61 minutes of music, inspired by two trips to see the redwoods of the Yosemite Valley in California. Some of the trees there are over 2000 years old.
Inspired by the space of where time is slow and bends over centuries, the sound of this project emerged.
Tracks:
- Part one: The seedling
- Part two: Heaven above the canopy
- Part three: Half Light *
- Part four: Immortal
- Part five: The gentle giant
- Part six: Speaking to trees
- Part seven: Shanti, Shanti, Shanti
Music composed, produced, recorded, mixed & performed by: Michael Whalen
Electronics, ambiences, piano, keyboards & programming: Michael Whalen
Vocals; Amanda Homi Read more…
Videographic Modulations for Meditation and Visualisation – music and visualizations by Jeffrey Siedler, from 1995.
via JeffreyPlaide:
Shortened from its original 21-minute version, this work is a visual and aural meditation.
The abstract images were intended to instill a calm, giving the mind a focus, much as would be accomplished by focusing on a mandala. The ambient music underlying the imagery was composed to create a relaxation of the body and is of a suitably unearthly surreal quality to bring about an aural complement to the animated visuals.
The images and music represent levels that transcend the world of appearances, the world of this reality. The images describe the harmonic patterns of the natural universe.
Created by analogue video synthesis, the imagery results in a complex cascade of dynamic modulating waveforms.
Greg Aranda’s Improvisation with Piano and Electronic Keyboard, Jan. 3rd, 2009 brought to mind the work of Steven Halpern.
Aranda’s video suffers from cheapcam syndrome and some interesting tuning, but it also captures a slice of the world of musicians that are creating new music, guerilla-style, and sharing it on the web.
via gragroon:
Greg Aranda : Piano & Casio CTK-650
Recorded live in Sunnyvale, CA, Jan. 3rd, 2009
Videography by Greg Aranda using Flip VideoUltra
©2009 by G.R. Aranda / Sea Goat Productions
Niladri Kumar’s Priority is an interesting new-age/space music track, and it’s got a really nice animated music video.
Kumar plays the Zitar, and electric sitar, and the DnB tabla is kind of cool, too.
