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New Age Music is more punk than you think

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BT Fasmer
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In February CBC Radio’s Shadrach Kabango made a great interview with Patrick McCarthy, project manager for Light in the Attic Records regarding the compilation I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age In America, 1950-1990. Listen to the interview below.

Here is a short presentation:

There is perhaps no style of music more mocked and loathed than New Age. The smooth synths, the wind chimes, the pan flutes — New Age has become synonymous with affluence and pampered indulgence.

Maybe it doesn’t help that the biggest star in the genre, Yanni, has the word “yawn” right in his name.

But New Age wasn’t always associated with yogis and sentimental yuppies. Back in the 70s, New Age embodied a DIY ethos every bit as non-conformist as punk rock.

Today Patrick McCarthy, project manager for Light in the Attic Records, joins Shad to remind us of the genre’s radical roots. Over the past few years, his label has been reissuing forgotten New Age classics.

Source: CBC.ca