Soft new-age music floated and hummed from the speakers.

Yet the comparatively low recording costs of most new-age music make it an attractive investment.

Obviously new-age music isn't the first quiet music to come along in Western civilization.

Current new-age music grows out of some salutary ideas that reached critical mass in the 1960's and 1970's.

But while new-age music draws on such experiments and innovations, it waters them down.

For many of those ultras, new-age music might be the perfect status accessory.

There's a creepy edge to most new-age music, an implicit message that if a listener takes notice, there'll be trouble.

"I think Indian music may be the oldest new-age music," she said, with a laugh.

The album also takes tangents into country and new-age music.

He said he no longer listened to new-age music.