Explore a psychedelic cyber-occult world and break free from Western rationalism through the music of Henry Kawahara. We’re all quite familiar with Kankyō Ongaku by now. The Japanese […]
New Age
When Stephen Hill launched Hearts of Space on KPFA in 1973, American radio was dominated by FM rock, Top 40 hooks, and easy listening formats. Hill’s program moved in the […]
A new compilation of spiritual and home-recorded music from the 1970s to 1990s, unearthed by Zully Adler, shimmers with quiet intensity. We talk to him about Goaty Tapes, […]
Explore a fan-made website dedicated to Windham Hill’s classic ‘A Winter’s Solstice’ series. Like the equally anomalous ECM label before it, Windham Hill is a label with its […]
Get lost in a great online portal for New Age music. For more than a decade, the cassette hub Sounds of the Dawn has explored the infinite well […]
DFA’s Infinity Machine aka The Juan MacLean and Gee Dee share five meditative healing songs. Infinity Machine is a new project from Juan MacLean – as in the […]
In the mid-1970s, Palo Alto and vicinity was becoming a home computing hub. In Cupertino, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak had partnered to begin building the first Apple […]
The musician and visionary, a founder of the genre, died Saturday. The best path for understanding the music and philosophies of the artist known as Iasos is to […]
An introduction to aural therapy with two artists exploring the healing qualities of sound. Have you noticed that days without music tend to be the low-energy days? If […]
Summer is fast approaching – here’s more music to go along with your sunny days. Hello friends! Hope you’re well… We have some exciting news incoming that we’ll […]
Hidden gems, one trackers, and undervalued full listens from the world of bargain bin New Age. Considered one of the most “uncool” genres of the past few decades, […]
Extensive interviews and performances with the new age icon explaining the origins of his inter-dimensional music. Here is Iasos, the legendary and peculiar new age figure from the […]
Although some of its artists also used electronics, the American label Windham Hill pioneered new acoustic music to such an extent that during its peak years the label […]
Record Stories is a series dedicated to shining a light on the weird and wonderful stories, characters, and places behind the world of record collecting. Ryan Rousseau has […]
