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New Age music
Apropos of nothing, I was playing a New Age disc yesterday as a respite from all the Christmas Music. Paul Horn, flutist. I think the Twins were probably 8-10 when New Age peaked and of course they would have been starting to get into the Beatles and similar sounds. Horn had a song which received frequent airplay: “Earth Song”. It’s on YT but sometimes hard to find. He loved recording in huge spaces and I think (but am not 100% positive) that he did an album which was officially, or un-, titled ‘Songs from the Cistern Chapel’. this was not something next to a house to catch rainwater. Picture a giant hatbox on the ground, not up on stilts, maybe 80 feet high and 300 across, a municipal water supply. One was disused and he set up in it. He said he loved the ‘decay’. For those not entirely certain, we have ‘attack’ and ‘decay’. Think striking a piano key and then letting the sound fade, like the Twins’ handheld metal chime thing. He said the decay in that place was like three hours. You could blow a note and eat lunch waiting for it to end. So an interesting sound for the sometimes unassuming flute. Be nice if some New Age would return a little bit.
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Hi Peter
I’ve always enjoyed New Age music since the early 90s. This genre evokes so much beauty and tenderness for me. George Winston is one of my favourites with his piano. He not only did new age renditions of classic songs, but also wrote his own music and was very good. I have a few of his albums on CD. His version of Walking In The Air was my absolute favourite version of that song, until Mona and Lisa did theirs that blew me away even more eclipsing George’s version. Other New Age groups I enjoyed in the past were Enya, Lorenna Mckinnit, Sarah Brightman. I really got into Engima, with the Gregorian feel to their music.
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Jung, I love this version from well, you know who…
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=monalisa+twins+walking+in+air&mid=131B12D0151F0F62A441131B12D0151F0F62A441&FORM=VIRE
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(Jung, could not get this to reply to your specific comment) You mentioned Loreena. She is a favorite of mine here near Detroit and has been ever since first introduced by Jurgen Goethe on CBC Stereo, a station I’m sure you can get in Vancouver. Sadly, Jurgen is gone but the CBC programming remains topnotch. Loreena has a song on her album ‘The book of Secrets’, called ‘Dante’s Prayer’. Beautiful, beautiful song and yes, New Age-y in its atmosphere. I have long admired it and found a use for it in my writings. A fanfiction based on a now-ended webcomic. In my fiction two principals say vows at their friends’ wedding. My main characters had had a civil ceremony on paper but wanted something more, hence vows among friends and acquaintances. The location was most special: the villa overlooking Lake Como (in real life) which was used in Star Wars for the wedding of Anakin and Padme at the end of the second movie. ‘Dante’s Prayer’ ended the saying of vows, Loreena’s voice carrying out over Como’s waters. Loreena still performs these days but mostly as a trio instead of larger groups using a multitude of sometimes esoteric instruments. Of course, I can well picture Mona and Lisa singing that specific song with their harmonies.
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