Not that it was a hit but...Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Musick from 1979? Or is that proto-ambient?
Not that it was a hit but...Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Musick from 1979? Or is that proto-ambient?
New Age was an overused term in the 80s and 90s. A lot of instrumental music got lumped in there regardless of genre. People like Tangerine Dream and Vangelis and various light jazz artists had to endure the label. Proper New Age music is mostly awful stuff associated the larger New Age movement - so crystals, meditation, healing all and all that crap. People like Steve Halpern being one of the mainstays, though admittedly some of his stuff is not awful.
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I think Erik Satie sometimes is supposed to be a forebearer of new age.
This was pretty popular when it was released.
Eroc from Grobschnitt released Wolkenreise in 1978, but may not have been a single until 1980
"Always ready with the ray of sunshine"
Clannad - Theme from Harry's Game. Top ten hit in 1982...
Andreas Wollenweider - he annoyed me a whole decade
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How could you guys forget Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells ?
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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No, apparently it was on an ep in 83 before it was released on another album(their first full length) in 84.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_B...e_Art_of_Noise
Also, weren't the band Sky kind of new agey for the time period? Not that familiar with them but what littled I did hear sounded sort of light.
Because we are now on page 2, some people seem to be missing the OP, so here are the salient points of it again:
When did we first hear.....
.....modern (1980s) New Age music leeching through into pop chart hits?
And I know there are loads of musicians who have been creating modern New Age music since the 70s, but they aren't household names to pop music fans and they haven't had hits in the pop charts.
As with "prog" it's all In the definition, and it's clear this varies wildly from person to person.
New Age to me was the Wyndham Hill instrumental pap that had no redeeming interest for me at all. I liked the Enya crossover hit that Peter leads with, and even bought the album back then, but little else crossed my path, apart from some of Jon Anderson's more ethereal (read dull) meanderings such as Angels Embrace.
The 70's with Hillage's Rainbow Dome Musick (mentioned earlier) was a different axis I think. This aligns with Time Blake (Song For a New Age), and was born of their hippy era mind set. I had lots of time for this though.
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There might be differences between UK and the continent and the US. Have you heard about Swiss Andreas Wollenweider? - he did hit charts several times both in Germany and USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Vollenweider
Lots of him on the tube... definetely New Age hits, definetely in the eighties.
TBH, I don't see much difference between ambient and new age.... Not enough to start making a set of ProgArchives-like definitions...
Strictly as when the terms appeared in time, Ambient came to in the 70's (coined from Eno's albums), and New Age was coined in the mid-80's, but it's like a "son of ambient" (IMHO and YMMV)
And RDM sounds close enough to "post-ambient-and-proto-new-age", just like Tim Blake's early albums do as well.
Absofuckinglutely. But then again, we've also got some later Ashra music that prefigure "new age" ... or Popol Vuh's mid-70's music ala Hosianna-Selispreisung stuff.
Then we might even include early Krautrock works in there too (see just above), but Virgin-era Tangerine Dream or classic K Schulze albums.
Didn't Dead Can Dance mid-90's album get also tagged as New Age as well??
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
I first heard of 'New Age' in the late 1980's on the VH1 program 'New Visions'. I was flipping thru the channels and Kitaro's song 'Cloud' was on. It really struck a cord with me. I have about 20 or so CD's of his. New Visions played New Age, Smooth Jazz, Electronic music. I was hooked and ended up watching it weekly and was my introduction to many artists.
For what its worth, Kitaro has been nominated for 16 Grammy Awards so within some circles he is well known.
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Paul Winter Consort?
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