The 10 Best New Age CDs of 1999
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Heart of the World
Youngblood, Mary
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Silver Wave
August 10, 1999
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Flutist Mary Youngblood's CD brims with feminine beauty and Native American spirituality. With airy flute, hand drums, percussion, guitar, and the gorgeous vocals of ...
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House Made of Dawn
Coyote Oldman
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Hearts of Space
August 17, 1999
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There are dozens of Native American-flute groups out there, but there's no one like Coyote Oldman. That's a group, not a person, named for the Native American mythological figure Oldman Coyote. But these coyotes aren't tricksters; they're sonic magicians. ...
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Light Fantastic
Roach, Steve
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Hearts of Space
September 21, 1999
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The high priest and wizard king of the ostensibly New Age corner of the ambient movement, Steve Roach is an American ...
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Inside Monument Valley
Horn, Paul
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Canyon Records
February 16, 1999
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The sublimity of Inside Monument Valley isn't in the lovely flute music created by jazz musician Paul Horn and Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai, or in the informative, clear liner notes and crisp photos, but rather in the exquisite interplay between Arizona's Monument Valley (the birds, insects, rain, ...
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You Are Here
Uman
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Six Degrees
May 18, 1999
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Uman (pronounced "yoo-mahn") make music for both traveling and digging into one's surroundings, be it "Somewhere on Earth," "In the Garden of Mist," "The Way to Peace," or "On the Other Side." With ...
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Afterglow
Hoppe, Michael
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Hearts of Space
June 22, 1999
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Under the skilled and intuitive guidance of musician and composer ...
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The Raga Guide: Survey of 74 Hindustani Ragas
Various Artists - International - South Asia
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Nimbus Records
March 2, 2004
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These four CDs tucked into a meaty, comprehensive book portray and explain the different histories, tonalities, and rhythms of 74 of Hindu's most common ragas. The raga, a musical form of ancient Hindustani prayer and poetry, has been the cornerstone of In...
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A Wish
El Din, Hamza
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Gemini Sun Records
May 25, 1999
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Sudan's Hamza El Din is a master of the oud (a fretless forerunner of the lute), and the man who first introduced Americans to the instrument in the '60s. On this, his first album in three years, his playing is as wonderful and mesmerizing as ever--you can...
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Bali
Jalan Jalan
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Pacific Moon [Alleg]
July 27, 1999
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In Japan and China, New Age music is often produced with the same attitude they've applied to robotic manufacturing--and it sounds like it. The artists are faceless and the music is generic. But a label called Pacific Moon may be changing that. Jalan Jalan...
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Aguas da Amazonia
Philip Glass
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Philips
August 3, 1999
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Uakti's Aguas de Amazona is a splendid suite of liquid light manifesting itself in nine riverlike tunes that splash, wend, trickle, and gush toward the fantastical changeling closer, "Metamorphosis." A Brazilian ensemble, Uakti (pronounced wah-keh-chee) weave a chordal interplay of strings, woodwinds, and homemade percussion pieces that create complex ...
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