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This is a list of new-age music artists with articles on Wikipedia. New-age music is broadly defined as relaxing, even "meditative", music that is primarily instrumental. Unlike relaxing forms of classical music, new-age music makes greater use of electronica and non-Western instrumentation.
New-age is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism.It is used by listeners for yoga, massage, meditation, [1] and reading as a method of stress management [2] to bring about a state of ecstasy rather than trance, [3] [4] or to create a peaceful atmosphere in homes or other environments.
Kim Robertson is an American Celtic harp player. [1] She was born in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and classically trained on piano and orchestral harp. Her work encompasses over 20 album projects, several volumes of harp arrangements, instructional videos, and an international itinerary of concerts and retreats.
There he began exploring the idea of creating music entirely for the purpose of relaxation, which he called "anti-frantic alternative" music. [1] He began creating music that did not adhere to traditional Western tonality , but which instead consisted of static, minimalist pieces for electric piano inspired by Eastern music.
Recently in Siberia, music groups drawing on knowledge of shamanic culture have emerged. In the West, shamanism has served as an imagined background to music meant to alter a listener's state of mind. Korea and Tibet are two cultures where the music of shamanic rituals has interacted closely with other traditions.
Maxwell's own instrumental version, featuring an organ solo rather than his harp, which is heard in the introduction as well as in the coda of the song, reached #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964. Another of his songs, "Solfeggio," performed by Maxwell's orchestra and the Ray Charles Singers , gained unexpected fame as the theme for Ernie ...
Auriga (harp and piano) Sergiu Natra. Music For Violin and Harp; Music For Harp and Three Brass Instruments (trumpet, trombone, & French horn) Music for Nicanor (harp, flute, clarinet & string quartet) Commentaires sentimentaux (flute, viola and harp) Two Sacred Songs (soprano, violin, cello, harp & organ) Ancient Walls (trombone & harp)
The seeds of her first album, "Harpistry", were sown during her involvement with a mediaeval instrumental group, Arcana Mundi, a concept dreamed up by Craig Leon, who would later become her producer. Thornton signed a deal with EMI in 2002, and between trips abroad with Bryan Ferry, she sourced the material for her first album, with help from Leon.