I've been casually thinking about New Age music lately?

Oh Really? Yeah. How many name-dropped krautrockers went on to new age-y careers? Popol Vuh? Ash Ra Tempel? & new to me (as above) - Deuter?



What does that have to do w/ Vangelis? I'm not sure, but I love this video. For a video for a song from a movie about athletics, Vangelis is chilling w/ a grand piano - Smoking & Drinking & looking generally unfit. He can barely take a break from smoking his cigarrete to play his pap.

First pass similarities? Ala krauters, and others), Vangelis is a post-prog rocker (via Aphrodite's Child) turned new age mystic musician.



And maybe in the end new age music isn't All Bad? At least the visuals are sometimes good. Is it not possible (a la some fusion (though I've never bought into it re:fusion) or even I don't know, some Mainstream Pop) that the Sound result is divergent from the Sound agenda?

In the end, also, what is Popol Vuh, if not, essentially, and actually, equivalent to Vangelis? Or if Can is not, essentially, and even actually, equivalent to King Crimson? (in many ways if not clearly NOT ALL) Tangerine Dream and whatever?

Does this diminish Popol Vuh, Klaus Schulze, Cluster? or lift up (unknown to me) new agey 70's musics?

(don't even get me started on the Ash Ra -> techno -> futuristic mysticism apparent in many dance musics lineage. or is this what punk/rock is totally reacting too? overt & also implicit mysticism w/r/t music? misplaced mysticism either outside or inside aspects of music making/listening?)