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Carol Wright's
New Age Writing and Music Reviews

I know some want to know if I'll review their album or do an interview.

List of feature articles about New Age music, alternative medicine, etc. (For editors to order samples of my "not posted" feature articles.)

Music articles

You Gotta Hear This! My 25 (more or less) Gateway New Age Albums

CD Packaging Design: The Perfectly Painted Square Wheel. Does your CD design really work? Look already! Don't buckle to your designer's good ideas. READ THIS ARTICLE!

Concert and PR Photography: The Good, the Bad, and the Extraordinary

My interviews with New Age musicians

Suzanne Ciani, New Age composer/pianist and electronic music pioneer in a New Age Voice interview for June, 2000.

Jonn Serrie, Space music composer, in an interview for barnes & noble.com

David Lanz, New Age pianist for April, 2000 cover story of New Age Voice.

John Tesh. Revealing interview of this New Age superstar for barnesandnoble.com

George Winston, 1999 Grammy nominee for Plains. Interview from New Age Voice, Feb. 2000. Read also my shorter bn.com interview.

Wendy Carlos (electronic music, composer of Switched-On Bach, Clockwork Orange) about her restoration of her four Switched-On Baroque albums in the Switched-On Boxed Set. (Interview is on her website.) Read also my barnesandnoble.com interview and review.

Phil Coulter, a superstar in Ireland, new interview on barnesandnoble.com for his Highland Cathedral album.

Robin Spielberg, pianist, bn.com interview

Stephanie Sante, spacemusic composer of Into Light, a bn.com Artist to Watch feature.

Paul Winter (Soprano sax, leader of pioneering Paul Winter Consort), 1999 Grammy winner for Best New Age Recording for Celtic Solstice

Tim Wheater, Fluting the World

Eileen Ivers (Riverdance fiddler) Crossing Bridges, Fraying Bows

Tingstad and Rumbel The Truth, the Beauty, and the Passion

Laurel MacDonald (Canadian vocalist extraordinaire) Singing at the Creed of Sound

Medwyn Goodall  Multi-instrumental Millennium Man

R. Carlos Nakai  (Native American flute), 1999 Grammy nominee, bn.com interview

Steve Roach  (Spacemusic), Light Fantastic, bn.com interview

Uman  (French brother/sister duo), You Are Here, bn.com "Artist to Watch"

Clara Ponty (pianist), The Embrace, bn.com interview

Music reviews...not nearly all my reviews. Some day, I'll catch up.

Spiritual, Meditation, Relaxation, Healing

World Music, World Fusion, Native American

Celtic, Traditional and Celtic Fusion

Instrumentals: Ensemble, Piano, Flute, Harp, Guitar

Electronic (melodic / avant garde), Space Music, Ambient Groove, Minimal Ambient

New Age Vocals, Chanting (Eastern, Gregorian, World)

Trance, Trance Dance, Drone

Classical Crossover

New Age music resource lists, radio programs, and links

Syndicated New Age radio programs

Local New Age radio programs

"Best of" New Age music lists

New Age music sites

Online music subscription lists

Music Education

Just intonation vs. equal temperament, 12-tone

Moogs and other synthesizers

Articles and resources about the New Age and indie music biz

Books and resources about the music business, trade assns., trade journals, etc.

CD Cover Design: A Tirade, with tips for good CD cover design and typography

So you want to record a Christmas album? Watch the timing!

Will I review...? Will I interview...? Will I get you a record deal? and other policies

Honorary Society of Wise-Asses...

Where Wendy Carlos titles her own interview...

Where musician Paul Adams asks "Where's the nude babes?"...and we deliver...

Where John Tesh declines to be one...

CW's art, masks, designs, photos, Orcas Island, weird stuff

Orcas Photo Album contents page (friends, Orcas photos, ferry photos, "Nunsense")

My theatre masks and works in clay

Making the large Orcas Island Summer Solstice Sun puppet

Design of RAMTHA cover, "The Great White Book."

Information about Orcas Island

Orcas Island's The Living Room,a gallery and performance salon

Portraits of cast/crew of "Nunsense"

Casual snapshots of my friends

Whose names I don't remember...(Page about Smart Drugs)

DRIB: Don't read if busy

Priceless stories (not mine) worth sharing and emailing along. Really funny this time...REALLY! Includes Kurt Vonnegut sunscreen speech (not), Bill Gates "11 Rules of Life," Tech Support for Husband 1.01, and other gems. Also, links from there to my inspiration page and the lyrics to Phil Coulter's moving hymn "Our Island Barque." Read my interview with him on the barnesandnoble.com website.