http://www.marcome.com/blog/new-age-living-with-integrity/ New Age Music World and Blog of Canadian Singer Artist Marcome Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:03:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.marcome.com/blog/new-age-living-with-integrity/comment-page-1/#comment-689 marcome Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:59:20 +0000 http://www.marcome.com/blog/?p=2823#comment-689 Dear Nigel, I appreciate your point of view! I feel that each musical genre, be it, heavy metal, trip hop, jazz, dance etc.. deserves to be seen in a proper way. Integrity as you say is a common thread in all our life. But once again, how can one evaluate the integrity of others? One could say that Death Metal (to take a drastic example) is not music. As a mastering engineer, I can say that music is music and everyone is allowed to like their own. I used to like punk music, at the time, it defined my values. Nowadays, I'm into ambient, classic, jazz and all sorts of pop musics. Most of what I like is not mainstream music. Does it make it better or worse? I feel like getting out of judging tastes, it's insurmountable!! The most important thing is to learn to appreciate differences I guess! Love and more music to you! Marcomé Dear Nigel, I appreciate your point of view! I feel that each musical genre, be it, heavy metal, trip hop, jazz, dance etc.. deserves to be seen in a proper way. Integrity as you say is a common thread in all our life. But once again, how can one evaluate the integrity of others? One could say that Death Metal (to take a drastic example) is not music. As a mastering engineer, I can say that music is music and everyone is allowed to like their own. I used to like punk music, at the time, it defined my values. Nowadays, I’m into ambient, classic, jazz and all sorts of pop musics. Most of what I like is not mainstream music. Does it make it better or worse? I feel like getting out of judging tastes, it’s insurmountable!! The most important thing is to learn to appreciate differences I guess! Love and more music to you! Marcomé

]]> http://www.marcome.com/blog/new-age-living-with-integrity/comment-page-1/#comment-688 nigel savage Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:57:52 +0000 http://www.marcome.com/blog/?p=2823#comment-688 Whatever the future will say of the artist known as Marcome, it will not be that she lacked conviction or courage. It is good to see you attempt this brave work of defining "New Age Music". From my reading you seem to be attempting to rescues it from the domain of vacuous anthropomorphisms. I have always recoiled in horror from the term “New age”. I have always seen it as the “Old Age” coming around again in the cycle of civilizations. It always seems to me that whether it is New Age spirituality or music, it borrows heavily on the work and understandings of ancient cultural movements. Movements such as Tibetan Buddhism or pre classical musical forms like modal polyphony, chant or indigenous tribal percussion. I like your definition of integrity. To me there is always a strongly personal element to integrity. I see it as an essential humanistic quality. Like all qualities, it is too elusive to precisely define. Something more fully understood in empathy. I can definitely feel or should I say hear the integrity in your music. Long may you shine. Whatever the future will say of the artist known as Marcome, it will not be that she lacked conviction or courage. It is good to see you attempt this brave work of defining “New Age Music”. From my reading you seem to be attempting to rescues it from the domain of vacuous anthropomorphisms.
I have always recoiled in horror from the term “New age”. I have always seen it as the “Old Age” coming around again in the cycle of civilizations. It always seems to me that whether it is New Age spirituality or music, it borrows heavily on the work and understandings of ancient cultural movements. Movements such as Tibetan Buddhism or pre classical musical forms like modal polyphony, chant or indigenous tribal percussion.
I like your definition of integrity. To me there is always a strongly personal element to integrity. I see it as an essential humanistic quality. Like all qualities, it is too elusive to precisely define. Something more fully understood in empathy. I can definitely feel or should I say hear the integrity in your music. Long may you shine.

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