New-age music

The term New Age as a term for a genre of music emerged in the late 1970s and is not clearly defined until now. Since this genre name was derived from the same esoteric movement, stands to " New Age music " is synonymous for " meditation music ", " spiritual music " and similar terms to use. First, however, any kind of melodic electronic music under the generic term "New Age" was summarized, sometimes you count the ambient music to it.

On the basis of these approaches, one can derive the following definitions as New Age music genre:

• New Age in the strict sense: Very melodic, easily digestible and meditative music, often with elements of world music such as use of exotic musical instruments or folk singing performances. In this sense New Age would be largely congruent with the music genre Ethno. Typical representatives of this New Age are music projects and artists such as Enigma, Enya, Era, Deep Forest, Deva Premal, Cusco as well as parts of the music of Delerium, Bradley Joseph, Kitaro, Gandalf, Mike Oldfield, Rick Wakeman, Peter Gabriel, David Darling, Jean Ven Robert Hal, David Arkenstone, Jean -Philippe Audin or the Paul Winter Consort.

• New Age in the broader sense: Any form of melodic electronic music. Accordingly, besides the above-listed artists and electronic pioneers such as Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis and Tangerine Dream would be to count the New Age, also all electronic artist whose music style was of one or more of these pioneers inspired. This new-age term is also often applied in practice; so the band Tangerine Dream in the 1990s received a Grammy nomination in the category "New Age".

• New Age in the broadest sense: Includes also experience less or no melodic, largely uncommercial music styles like Ambient; practically this means that the whole " not danceable " electronic music is synonymous with New Age set.

• Style of electronic music