NEW AGE/MEDITATION INSTRUMENTALS Forward

[tomaragon]

I got forwarded for the following listing.NEW AGE/MEDITATION INSTRUMENTALS are being sought after by a prominent Independent Record Label with major distribution, for a new Comp CD series. They are really trying to stay away from the "boring" New Age of the past and are looking to add influences of contemporary/alternative rock.Initiation

[djdeweese]

Great Work Tom! Very imaginative and certainly not traditional musak quality. Thanks for posting the link and I hope you get some distribution out of this forward--

[llama]

Congratulations Tom.......I wondered what this listing would sound like. Couldn't get my head around this one. But now I know....Great stuff as always Tom. Look forward to hearing that you got the deal.Derek

[jeffgreenleaf]

Great Job Tom and awesome guitar playin!

[ibanez468]

Tom Aragon,Congrats on your forward!! Sounds great man!! It's kinda' got that Phil Collins, "I Can Feel It In the Air" vibe to it!! Woulda' been a perfect match for a Miami Vice scene!! That's just what I hear & envision in my mind's eye!! I'm sure it'll be great for somethin' else though!! Love the guitar work!! Keep 'em comin' dude!!I-468

[allends]

InitiationWow Tom,This is such a great project I feel guilty for only singling out the smooth-but-passionate guitar chops. The vibe is exciting yet centering too. The overall result is out of this world!Congrats!-Allen

[tomaragon]

I too was baffled by this listing as the description seemed to sound somewhat like an oxymoron. I totally agree about the guitar work .............it is very tasty!But truth be told............ I didn't play it. . I did however compose and play everything else. Back in the late 90's in the days of MP3.com I had this song on my site without guitar on it. Just about the time I was thinking of adding guitar, a phenomenal guitarist by the name of Marc Pattison contacted me and we became friends over the Internet.Marc is a virtuoso guitarist somewhat in the vein of Joe Satriani and many other great guitarists. I sent him the MP3file and asked him to play whatever he thought would enhance the composition. I had a lot of his work and knew he was a pro through and through so I trusted his decision. Actually, when he sent back the track with his guitar work I was somewhat surprised at the great restraint he used.The vibe he used really complimented the track nicely.Marc is quite the shredder so I somewhat expected something more intense, but yet he played exactly what the tune called for.........nothing more and nothing less. I love what he played and it still holds up after all this time.The inspiration for the body of the tune was somewhat from Dead Can Dance and the ascending and descending lines at the end was a slight nod to the ending section of The Beatles' "I Am The Walrus".Thanks to all for all the kind comments!

[squids]

Well, this sho ain't yo daddy's new age and isn't that awesome? Hee!! Thanks for opening up that door a lil wider fo me. I've had some luck doing an aramaic thing and I'm going in to record more like it and I need to have an example of what I want emotionally......is there a way to download this somewhere? Do you have it on itunes? or cdbaby? This will show my producer where I'm going since my last world piece. I can remember the days when I'd get rejected for being too passionate in my new age/meditative stuff. Heh, guess that's over now.

[spaceeagle]

Top stuff tom

[tomaragon]

Squids:This track is really unlike any of my other stuff.As I recall it started out plunking out “one note at a time” little percussion parts until I created a long loop. The instrumentation of the rhythmic loop is obviously not indigenous to any one culture but that is what I was hearing in my head.Traditionalists would tell me “you can’t mix Tablas with Tympanis” and all of those no no’s, but I just played what I heard in my head and stuck with it.From there, I just sort of had a picture of the silhouettes of Druids in long hooded robes against a full moon in a slow procession to their destination of secret ceremony.Not sure where that image came from but that was what the inspiration for the tune was.It’s best listened to on headphones.Anyway, the track is available Here and it’s actually listed as Goth Rock over there.Thanks to All