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The New Age Music Guide: Profiles and Recordings of 500 Top New Age Musicians

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This book was published in 1989 at the crest of the "New Age" movement in music; of course, within a few years after this, sales of New Age Music dropped (significantly, at about the time that most "New Age" labels started getting more into "smooth jazz" and lost the original "spiritual/inspirational" focus of the music), so this book now inevitably seems more like "nostalgia" than "cutting edge."

Still, there is a lot of music from that period and earlier that still sounds excellent! And this book is still an excellent reference for New Age Music prior to 1989.

500 artists are profiled, who are listed alphabetically. Lists of artists are also provided, subdivided into categories such as "East/West" (e.g., Kitaro), "Meditation Music" (e.g., Aeoliah), "Space Music" (e.g., Constance Demby), "World Music" (e.g., Cusco), etc. Representative albums by each artists are listed, along with a brief (usually one single-column paragraph) description.

Reading through the book, you'll probably (like me) find that there were a lot of artists that you MISSED, and might want to go "catch up" on.