the death and disembowelment of the new age (by zatoichi the blind swordsman)

new age is certainly a contested term (if not always a term of abuse and a slur). 

however if you include windham hill as descendants of fahey, then you have to admit that he helped kick off the new age. after all ackerman tried to study with robbie basho. fahey's feeling about this can probably best be deduced from the title of a later track of his  the death and disembowelment of the new age.

certainly later (self-released) basho falls into this category (but strangely).

the 'respectable' end of the genre is ambient but anything designed for meditation with dolphin and whale noises on it is probably out. (though when horsemouth was working supporting a massage therapist about 10 years ago they still had cassettes of it). 

birdsong is the modern equivalent of this marked by recent events. shocked by the collapse of the categories of work and social life many people took a walk, at some point they would return from shock to consciousness and hear the singing of birds. 

music often moves the spirit (but often it moves the spirit in a lustful desiring way). horsemouth notes that he has less interest in  this and more interested in numinously spiritual effects. 

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it is 150 years since the paris commune. we are moving into its time. on the 17th and 18th the new french government (installed after the defeat of the french  forces and the siege of paris in the franco-prussian war - ably described by zola in le debacle) will attempt to seize the cannons of the working class militias of paris from the parks where they were stored thus triggering the commune. 

meanwhile zatoichi defends the peasants from the exploitative and corrupt ruling class (despite his position in feudal society as yakuza or gangster). but it doesn't do him any good, he ends up walking down the road alone at the end. 

today work. tomorrow work. wednesday probably chickens. soon back to the wen. 

today is back to work day for the education sector. back to normal day. university courses with a practical content may re-open also. horsemouth isn't a fan. he thinks we should all be staying home (as much as possible).