Enigma - Return to innocence

I want to dedicate this song to you all. Turn up the volume if you can. I hope you like it. Many people scorn at New Age music, probably because it was most proeminent in the 80s, where many of the "sins" of popular music were created, according to some people. (Well, according to the Wikipedia, the roots come from the 70s in fact, with Brian Eno, but when I think of it, I remember the 80s and early 90s).

The bottom line is New Age as a movement it's all about a return to the spiritual values and spiritual exploration by the individual, which is way the music is often associated with meditation and valuing the beautiful things in life. It has a message of hope for the future (also in these lyrics, if you pay attention). Regardless of all this yada-yada, it is the music that is powerful. The other day I was listening to this song and felt connected to something far greater than the artists behind it. There is a "voice" in this song coming from the core of something, from the earth, from what unites us all as individuals. Maybe it's something like the collective unconscious. I felt really moved and euforic in a way. And perhaps this is why I'm more and more into World music, or whatever they want to call it. I used to be a rock person, not too long ago, but my preferences have been shifting to things that are more raw, more traditional (not that rock isn't traditional and has its roots strongly defined in the Blues, etc.). But what makes me happy now is more tribal, folklore, with instruments that aren't electric, that are simpler, with people that sing with all their lungs in languages I sometimes don't understand and yet they make me FEEL a lot of things.

I wouldn't include New Age in this category of World Music but this video is one of my favourites ever. It's beautiful, very clever, full of archetypes even. And mixing the magical with the rural, unicorns and pears.