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- From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
- Subject: Re: New Age vs Enya & Clannad
- Message-ID: <16112@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 18:34:51 GMT
- References: <10763@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
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- In article <10763@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> billrich@caspian.ext.vt.edu (Bill Richardson) writes:
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- |New Age is some of the most atrocious "music" I have heard, seeming to
- |begin from the false hypothesis that you can create something entirely
- |"new" without any influences.
-
- You haven't listened to too much new age music have you? Nor do you seem
- to know that the musicians creating this thing called "new age" music did
- not up with the name "new age". I'm not going to list a bunch of artists
- but there is a lot of music which is classified under some marketing types
- definition of new age music. The actual style is quite broad. Like any
- genre some of it's crap.
-
- |Enya on the other hand, has a very modern
- |sounding music, with a very "new" sound, but she is entirely true to her
- |folk roots, and does not make the pretentious claim of having created
- |something "new".
-
- To me Enya sounds new because her vocals almost sound as if they are sampled
- and are just being played on a keyboard. I also find her boring.
-
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