Just a question for Mr Townsend, out of curiosity:
According to the (very reliable) Wikipedia, "Devin is influenced by New Age music", which is beautifully evident on Ki and Infinity, but what I'd like to know is are there any particular New Age bands/projects you take influence from?

Ravi Shankar and Paul Horn are the only ones I know of...
Cheers!

[The Dev]

Sure, here's the ones I listened to most when I was a teen:

Emerald Web: Valley Of The Birds
Emerald Web: Sound Trek
Kitaro: Ki
Synchestra (self titled)
Paul Horn: Traveller
Deuter: Land Of Enchantment

And in the same line, but not the same style:

Trevor Horn: The Dark Crystal soundtrack
Mark Isham: Never Cry Wolf soundtrack
Enya: Watermark

did you ever listen to warren zevon? i wouldn't call him new age but he was one of the funnier 'classic' artists so

Sure, here's the ones I listened to most when I was a teen:

Emerald Web: Valley Of The Birds
Emerald Web: Sound Trek
Kitaro: Ki
Synchestra (self titled)
Paul Horn: Traveller
Deuter: Land Of Enchantment

And in the same line, but not the same style:

Trevor Horn: The Dark Crystal soundtrack
Mark Isham: Never Cry Wolf soundtrack
Enya: Watermark

Odd fact: that was your 666th post...haha

Odd fact: that was your 666th post...haha

What is this, the Slipknot forums?

Odd fact: that was your 666th post...haha

What is this, the Slipknot forums?

Only since you showed up.

Sure, here's the ones I listened to most when I was a teen:

Emerald Web: Valley Of The Birds
Emerald Web: Sound Trek
Kitaro: Ki
Synchestra (self titled)
Paul Horn: Traveller
Deuter: Land Of Enchantment

And in the same line, but not the same style:

Trevor Horn: The Dark Crystal soundtrack
Mark Isham: Never Cry Wolf soundtrack
Enya: Watermark

Holy shit, I thought I was the only one that ever heard of Kitaro!! You should check out Marcome....beautiful voice (not sure the language she sings in), lots of fresh and crisp sounding keys....but mellow. LOVE IT. "Seven seas", I believe its called.

And Enigma. GOD, ENIGMA!!!! They rule!!!

BTW -

Marty Friedman did an awesome album in the early '90 w/ Kitaro. It is called Scenes. There is no shred, no distortion, no drums, etc ... it is all melodic and clean tones. There are drums on a couple pieces if I remember correctly. It is is only worthwhile solo album IMO.
He did that between Rust In Piece and Countdown To Extinction.

It aged a little [duh!] but it is worth check out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSM4Tfb4rco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNOlU9LwZrY

Sure, here's the ones I listened to most when I was a teen:

Emerald Web: Valley Of The Birds
Emerald Web: Sound Trek
Kitaro: Ki
Synchestra (self titled)
Paul Horn: Traveller
Deuter: Land Of Enchantment

And in the same line, but not the same style:

Trevor Horn: The Dark Crystal soundtrack
Mark Isham: Never Cry Wolf soundtrack
Enya: Watermark

Thanks so much! I'll definitely give these a go.

Holy shit, I thought I was the only one that ever heard of Kitaro!!

Dude, I know Kitaro from that Silk Road documentary music. It just quite recently came from the TV (again), I watched it a little and was thinking "whoa... What's this music!?"... The watched the ending credits and saw it was someone called "Kitaro"... Now I run to the name again... Guess I should listen to some of his stuff.

Dev have you heard Mark Ishams soundtrack to the film Crash? very moving, one of my fav soundtracks.

[The Dev]

Shit...HE did Crash?!? Thats a monumental movie. (not the car one, the other one with Sandra Bullock) the soundtrack MADE that...

On the subject of soundtracks, Joe Hisaishi is an amazing composer. Makes me cry.

Back on track though, do the bands you mentioned influence all of your music, or just the more ambient songs?

Check out some Moebius/Roedelius and Eno's early work.

Shit...HE did Crash?!? Thats a monumental movie. (not the car one, the other one with Sandra Bullock) the soundtrack MADE that...

Yeh it's all I've heard from him, gonna check out his other stuff.