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What's the Antidote for Modern Life?

In our harried and hectic 21st century lives,environment  rather  than  intruding upon it.
New Age music just might be the right
antidote for all the craziness that seems toIn the mid 20th Century, historians say, the
surround us every day. New age music offers aNew Age genre was blown wide open by a
magical blend of sounds that reach deep intocomposer named John Cage who experimented
the psyche and transport listeners to awith a wide range of sounds from countries
blissful state of harmony and contentment.around the world. Cage even challenged the
New Age music is also known by many othernotion that music could not be a recording of
names including ambient, contemporarysilence. In the 1960s, the New Age floodgates
instrumental, experimental, spacerock, moodopened when American composers with classical
music and chillout. Not everyone agrees onbackgrounds started to explore the idea of
exactly what New Age music encompasses. Onerepetition whether with orchestras, electric
group of fans claims that New Age is aninstruments or non-Western instrumental
offshoot of electronic music that includesarrangements. The invention of the analog
melodic non-dance pieces. Artists in thissynthesizer led to the development of many
tradition include Enya, Yanni and Vangelis,other types of compositions by this school of
who are all hugely popular. Others considercomposers who came to be known as
New Age as an outgrowth of electronic musicminimalists. In the 1990s, some historians
used primarily for relaxation in Easternnote that the term "New Age music," for
practices like yoga and meditation. There isbetter or worse, was co-opted by self-help
an entire industry of recording companiesgurus who thought that it could lead to
that produce cassettes and CDs to teach andself-realization and new levels of
compliment these practices. Another point ofconsciousness. In the new millennium,
view is that New Age is purely melodic withhistorians say that New Age music belongs to
long,  soothing  tracks.a whole new group of listeners known as the
'rave'  generation.
The history of New Age music is also open to
interpretation. Some music historians say itWhatever your perception of the origins or
can be traced back to a British musicianpurposes of New Age music, it's clear that
named Brian Eno who coined the term "ambientthere is a prominent place for it in today's
music." regarding his 1978 album, "Ambient 1:culture. Yes, we're caught up in a harried
Music for Airports,". In the sleeve notes,existence, but we always find time to take a
Eno explained that it was music "designed tochill pill with this soothing genre of music.
induce calm and a place to think." He
explained that depending on the listener, itListen to free New Age Music MP3's at Where
could be used as background music or bedoes your favorite top New Age songs rank?
actively listened to. According to theseVisit EZ-tracks to check out top country
historians, New Age music's prime source ismusic  charts.
two 19th Century classical avant-garde
composers--Claude Debussy and Erik Satie-whoWant a soothing ringtone for you cell phone?
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