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- Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
- Subject: Re: New Age vs Enya & Clannad
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.135241.16653@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 13:52:40 EST
- References: <10763@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <16112@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
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- Organization: Cornell University
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- In article <16112@auspex-gw.auspex.com>,
- johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
- > In article <10763@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> billrich@caspian.ext.vt.edu (Bill Richardson) writes:
- >
- > |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.
- >
- > --
- > +==========================================================================+
- > | John Fereira | Auspex Systems | "Ask me about my vow of silence." |
- > | johnf@auspex.com | Santa Clara CA | |
- > +==========================================================================+
- What could sound more boring than typical new age music? Boopsie, in the
- Doonesbury strip, called it "air pudding", with which I totally agree. Ugh.
-
- Ilana Reisner
-