Music Blog Spotlight: New Age Vibe
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I pride myself on having pretty eclectic music tastes, but I have to admit there are a few holes in my musical knowledge. One area I’m not so cluey about is new age stuff. If I’m honest, I know a few Enya songs and that’s about it.
Luckily for the music channel, we seem to have an expert on everything and that includes New Age tunes. Shankar Dhanasekaran writes New Age Vibe, a guide to new age sounds. He writes personal entries about the music he’s passionate about, and includes plenty of videos so you can hear the music for yourself.
Visit New Age Vibe and you’ll soon learn there’s more to new age music than Enya.
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monica williams
Jan 3, 2009 at 2:17 am
Great Writing! Would you consider doing a review for a New Age Album? Here is some info about it. You can also hear the title track ‘Ascension’ at our myspace http://www.myspace.com/bayareacontemporarymusic
If you are interested I can email you the tracks.
Thanks- Have a Great Holiday!
Monica Willliams
Phoenix Rising
ABOUT THIS CD …
We are living in a time of stress and struggle. There is still hunger, hatred, and sickness in a world that is also filled with such beauty, generosity, and harmony. ASCAP award-winning composer Wendy Loomis and Eastman School of Music alumna Monica Williams decided to create a CD that had the power to help people relax, de-stress, and energize with positive vibrations of gratitude for this life. While Wendy was in the middle of a yoga class, she had a vision of the CD being organized around the 7 chakras. For those of you unfamiliar, the 7 chakras are energy centers that run up the human body from the base of the spine, to the sexual center, the stomach, the heart, the throat, the 3rd eye between the eyebrows, and the crown of the head. Many people have developed systems that associate colors and tones with each chakra. Monica and Wendy decided not to be quite so literal in their interpretation, but rather incorporate the idea of energy rising from our most earthly, primal instincts up toward our higher, nobler, spiritual realm – the eternal quest to ascend toward the Higher Power. And ASCENSION was born.
7 is a lucky and inspiring number that is threaded through ASCENSION: there are 7 tones in a scale, the compositions are in 7 different key signatures, the music is played on 7 primary instruments, Monica was born in ’77, and this is the 7th CD of Wendy’s music.
With the exception of ‘Seed’ and ‘Nourishment’ which were improvisations, the themes for this CD were composed by Wendy Loomis. Monica and Wendy arranged the flute and piano sounds in a weave with instruments from around the world played by a group of very talented women: Jennifer Lim on guzheng (China); Debra Podjed on tabla (India) and goat hooves (Bolivia); Jessica Styler on hang drum (Switzerland); Suellen Primost on cello (Italy); Irina Mikhailova on voice (born in Russia); and Karen Segal on guitar (Spain/the Middle East).
If you are interested please contact me at monicaw14@hotmail.com
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