Rootsucker Records
Let's do some research. Today's question is: What is the difference between New Age and Ambient. Wiki delivers an answer quite fast and states that "the difference between new age music and ambient or minimal music is not always obvious". Any music can be new age as long as it is close to sound, minimal, ambient or esoteric. Provided the artist has a background related to the New Age movement (which is "a non-rational answer to postmodern relativism, where history ends, all is relative, each truth is one of many as well as each God is one from many").
So, you guys and girls are still here?
What I meant to say with the first remarks is that sometimes it's hard to put labels onto music, and that's why sometimes I refure to do that. Like with Rob Byrd's "Bells of tomorrow". The CD contains some really very nice guitar ambient. Nicely stretched sounds, great sustain and dynamics, very well mixed with additional found footage and sounds. In no way it is strict new age; But you must wonder why I'ld mention the term in the first place?
The press info on the website holds this next line: "Byrd is honored and pleased that a number of Reiki Masters, yoga teachers, and massage therapists have picked up on the healing patterns in the music and use it to accompany their treatments". And forgive me, but that makes me itch a bit at the wrong places. There is so much good ambient being produced in the world, and just because basically most therapists are too lazy or narrowminded to search for good music ... Ah well, you all know where I'm going here, I'll step away from my soapbox.
"Bells of tomorrow" is a good album, period. The atmosphere which is created in the first tracks is stable and continuous over the whole CD. The tension is there, allthough it doesn't change too much. Maybe that is the secret for becoming a good CD for yoga and massages?
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