New Age Children

The name of Era's third studio release, The Mass, was a departure from the eponymous titles of their previous albums. "The Mass" was also the name of the album's lead single, a track which differed from Era's previous songs in a significant way: rather than forming the choral backdrop themselves, Era used a sample of 'O Fortuna' (from Carl Orff's famous 'Carmina Burana'). The actual tune is a more upbeat version of "Divano", from Era 2, but the inclusion of the samples is a great idea. Though the track ends slightly abruptly, it remains one of the most wonderfully evocative songs of the New Age genre…

Trance 'n' Dance is the third album by Mind Over Matter. The album includes a magnificent "Children of the Midnight" (22-minute piece in four parts), a joint venture with Peter Mergener ("Spacelab"), a track featuring the recorded voice of the great Indian leader and spiritualist Mahatma Gandhi ("Mahatma"), another bonus track from the first album ("The silence") and a track that would become the ultimate encore during MoM-concerts, "Jack the Bear". Aggi Fiegler sang this Floydian track that featured voices from two freaked-out Canadians that Klaus met on a trip to Thailand in the mid-1980s.

On this highly personal album, part of "The Rick Wakeman New Age Collection," Wakeman turns the interpretive skills he once applied to Henry VIII's six wives to a subject much closer to home: his own family. His parents, his wife Nina, his children, and his pets all get their musical portraits painted as keyboard instrumentals…

Trance 'n' Dance is the third album by Mind Over Matter. The album includes a magnificent "Children of the Midnight" (22-minute piece in four parts), a joint venture with Peter Mergener ("Spacelab"), a track featuring the recorded voice of the great Indian leader and spiritualist Mahatma Gandhi ("Mahatma"), another bonus track from the first album ("The silence") and a track that would become the ultimate encore during MoM-concerts, "Jack the Bear". Aggi Fiegler sang this Floydian track that featured voices from two freaked-out Canadians that Klaus met on a trip to Thailand in the mid-1980s.