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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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