New-age music

Now, what is the name of this kind of

music? Well, it's a New Age kind of Peruvian...

I don't know what to call it, David.

A lot of it is flute music, and it's just great stuff.

She is a two-time Grammy-nominated harpist, composer, and arranger.

she's created a crossover career between new age and classical but she's got much more than that going on as you will hear because she's performed with a who's who of iconic artists across a range of genres including listen to this jay-z beyonce sting alicia keys carrie underwood tony bennett and the who i couldn't believe that last one She performed for President Obama and for other heads of state.

She's been in movie soundtracks and on late-night TV, and she's toured throughout the U.S., Europe, South America, Israel, Japan, and the South Pacific.

What else can this lady possibly do that she hasn't done? And in the middle or thereabouts, we're going to do what I call a song fest.

All

right.

But you went from classical to this whole new age thing.

Tell me about that transition.

So look, coming back to Metal Machine.

So 1975, you say a new age.

Why 75? So this is a period of height of prog rock.

Glam rock is still sort of very vibrant, isn't it? The birth of disco.

Because in the book, you put in the machine into music, you mentioned two massive events in 1975 that appeared, Worlds Apart, that changed the world.

Was it changed the world? Was it Kraftwerk and also the personal computer that sort of appeared? So it's quite a significant year, 75 at this stage.

And it was a significant year for New Age music as well, if you're interested.

It was when two albums came out that became the cornerstone of New Age.

And on the flip side, this is at the same time.

I'm going to throw out that new age.

New age started changing, becoming something that was popular music.

And for me, that was also, I think it was 88 or 89, 88.

Anya came out with Orinoco Flow.

And she's such a nice person anyway.

Right.

Well, you remember Andar and the throat thing, right? That's something that, because of the world music, the dead can dance stuff, and the New Age music and all that, it kind of slid in there, because it's like, I've never heard anything like this before.

And I go into her h- into her house and, again, very different than I'd ever experienced.

She's got clinky, clanky New Age music going on.

She's got candles and incense and, you know, statues of fairies and angels all over the place.

And she invites me into this room, and it's like her living room, but there's no furniture in there except for this, like, cushion, and she invites me to sit on this cushion.

Right.

I started attracting the right people, the right teachers, saying the right things, and I happened to just become this just student.

I was just so hungry that I would, you know, go to churches, New Age churches, and, um, you know, go into the, to the, uh, back of, um, you know, bookstores, into, like, the woo woo section, and I would get all the books on, you know, on creating whatever, creating money or creating my body or, you know, anything that there was, and there wasn't a lot back then.

And I just became such, you know, so in, in tune with it and started meditating and, and I was applying these laws without even really knowing, knowing what the laws were.

Is that something that you think is still relevant?

I think that, um, my return-- First of all, I never really consciously made New Age music.

Mm.

That was a very controversial-

They're a songwriter and they're a musician known.

And she's known for her distinctive blend of Celtic influences, new age music and atmospheric pop.

Her music is characterized by layered vocals, lush synthesizers, which I love.

orchestral textures, and an ethereal, that's the second time we use that word, sound that creates a peaceful, almost dreamlike atmosphere.

She achieved worldwide recognition with songs such as Orinoco Flow, Only Time, and Caribbean Blue.

Unlike many traditional performers, Enya rarely tours or performs live, instead focusing heavily on the meticulous studio production that gives her recordings their signature sound.

Her combination of haunting melodies, soothing vocals, and timeless arrangements has made her one of the most distinctive and successful artists associated with contemporary Celtic and New Age music.

She mostly lives her days in her castle.

I'd love to hear more about some of their ideologies and what they were trying to infuse in music.

Well, it, it, I was, I was deeply involved in that from 1961 to 1966 at Fort Point, which is the extension of the Presidio into San Francisco Bay under the Golden Gate Bridge, and that's where they were doing, uh, frequency research and, uh, developing New Age music.

And, um, that, that at the time was the headquarters of electronic warfare of the United States Army.

That, that's what was there, and why it was a top-secret facility and all of that.

Yeah.

Well, and, and we're going to get into something, the exorcist here I have to talk about, but, um, You know, a lot of this, a lot of the fear of stuff in exorcism, like exorcists always talk about yoga and the new age.

And it's so,

I'm sorry I'm laughing, but like, it's so kind of ridiculous.

But I've thought

about this for years.

Like I've spent time being actually, I was, as a kid, I was like told like my grandmother was worried about me getting into new age music.

And I was like, grandma, that music sucks.

I mean I've never recorded the sessions but I've often wondered because every client is different, every client's emotional energy is different, their psychic energy is different and so it brings me to play different pitches and combine different harmonies and things like that for the client.

Now you have become, in fact, you've won awards in the New Age music

area.

Yes.

You moved from classical to jazz and into New Age music.

Right, that's right.

Which has certainly, to me, it just seems to have a healing component.

I always feel relaxed listening to that type of music.