{"id":2595,"date":"2012-11-07T09:16:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2012-11-07T09:16:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:16:59","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-319-the-dawing-of-a-new-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/11\/07\/my-musical-evolution-part-319-the-dawing-of-a-new-age\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 319 New Age The Dawning Of A New Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ray<\/a>I can tell you precisely when I first heard\u00a0Deep Breakfast <\/em>by Ray Lynch.<\/em> It was in the wee hours of the\u00a0night\/morning after my wedding.\u00a0\u00a0Remember Keith? The guy that got me interested in U2? The guy that I camped out for U2 Tickets with. The guy who asked me who I was taking to the concert. The guy I told “The woman who will change my life.”\u00a0That same guy gave me Ray Lynch’s Deep Breakfast<\/em> as a wedding gift.<\/p>\n

After\u00a0our reception, the entire wedding party went to the midnight movies at Glenbrook Cinema\u00a0(which is no longer\u00a0there). After the movie, we were wiped out. I turned on the fibre optic flower music box that was also\u00a0a wedding gift and played Deep Breakfast.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>And by the flickering colored lights I listened to the soothing sounds of Ray Lynch <\/em>and\u00a0my new bride crying about how she could never go home again.<\/p>\n

While I thought Deep Breakfast <\/em>was nice to listen to that night. It wasn’t until a few days later in our new home that I really listened to it and became fully aware of this genre of music known as New Age.<\/em> Yes,\u00a0Tubular Bells<\/em>\u00a0is often classified as New Age <\/em>but there were no labels designating it as such when I bought it. It seemed as though New Age<\/em> just popped up all of a sudden and I was crazy about it.\u00a0New Age<\/em> took my love of instrumental music and mixed it in with my love of electronic music. Often times good guitar parts were mixed in as well.<\/p>\n

Even though Tubular Bells <\/em>was technically my first<\/em> New Age CD, I\u00a0believe that Ray Lynch <\/em> marks\u00a0the start of my New Age journey.\u00a0 It was Ray Lynch\u00a0that introduced me to the label New Age.<\/em>\u00a0 Wooden Nickel didn’t have a New Age section at that time so I spent a lot of money at Musicland<\/em> which had a small but growing New Age area.<\/p>\n

I can’t stress how significant this move to New Age <\/em> is to My Musical Evolution.<\/em>\u00a0 Since late 1988, almost a quarter of a century, New Age <\/em>has been the most played genre of my Eclectic Collection. <\/em> In my office most days, I listen to New Age all day long. It has that mind focusing power to mask out the sounds of the office and\u00a0 not distract me with lyrics or air drum solos. Any time that I have thinking to do New Age helps. On long drives New Age inspires me to recognize the natural beauty around me. If you are curious about New Age music, I highly recommend starting here with Ray Lynch<\/em> and Deep Breakfast<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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