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At 12:59 PM 11/21/96, Alan R. Lockett wrote:

quoted 15 lines On Wed, 20 Nov 1996 11:51:24 -0500 Zenon M. Feszczak wryly lamented:

>On Wed, 20 Nov 1996 11:51:24 -0500 Zenon M. Feszczak wryly lamented: > >> WARNING: Book stores, despite their alleged intellectually exacting >> approach, are dangerously prone to confuse all sorts of instrumental and >> otherwise valid sonic art forms with crystal mysticism nominally named >> "New Age". That is: Eno will in fact have to share a room with Yanni. > >Still, marginally more taxonomically efficient than Tower in Southern CA >who have the likes of Woob and O Yuki Conjugate helpfully filed under the >legend "ROCK/SOUL". > >Ho hum. > >alan/beyondthebristolsound >

I prefer to see *our* music mixed in the rest of popular music, rather than ghetto-ized with the crystals 'n' beads pseudo-worldbeat crap. Global Communications next to Garbage makes much more sense. We're talking about a form of pop music here, with intentions of selling to the general public, not just to people who want to somehow show they're down with the Navajos. Mixing it in with New Age just muddies the waters. It's not quite Rock, Pop or Soul, but it is most definitely not New Age, either. -Phil [----------] [---] [-----] [-----] [-----] [----------] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [----------] [----------] [---] [---] [----------] [----------] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [--------] [-----] [-----] [---] [-----] [----------] Home is where the stereo is!