Meredith L Young-Sowers's 'Agartha: Personal Meditation Music' releases a wave of nostalgia and reflection on electronic music's trajectory over the past decade, entwining healing and vibrational sound as cultural phenomena.
The revival of new age music, including reissues like Mort Garson's 'Mother Earth's Plantasia', indicates a collective yearning for immersive and therapeutic sound experiences, resonating deeply within the electronic music community.
Agartha's association with Pauline Oliveros and Éliane Radigue challenges critics, inviting dialogues on the exploitation within self-help movements, while also accentuating the sentimental value found in holistic sound experiences.
This cultural reawakening, including the recent focus on ASMR, reflects a pre-pandemic longing for sound as a medium of comfort and community, blending various genres into a therapeutic mosaic.
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