Ancient Journeys: A Vision of the New World is an album by German

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 cross-cultural

Cross-cultural

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 new age

New Age music

New Age music is music of various styles intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism. It is used by listeners for yoga, massage, meditation, and reading as a method of stress management or to create a peaceful atmosphere in their home or other environments, and is often...

 band Cusco

Cusco (band)

The following note applies to many of the individual album pages as well, though they are not individually tagged:Cusco is a German andean new age band named after the Peruvian city of Cusco, which at one time was the capital city of the ancient Incan Empire...

, released in 2000. Released three years after the previous album, this one peaked at #2 on the Billboard Top New Age Albums chart.

This album continues somewhat in the flavor of Apurimac III

Apurimac III

Apurimac III: Nature - Spirit - Pride is an album by the German cross-cultural new age band Cusco, released in 1997. The album peaked at #7 on the Billboard Top New Age Albums chart....

, but is dedicated to ancient journeys of adventure and discovery. The musical concepts reflect on ancient rhythms and melodies, and depict ancient kingdoms, sea voyages, conquests and land explorations that cross continents.

Track listing

1. "Da Gama" (featuring Ottmar Liebert
   Ottmar Liebert
   Ottmar Liebert is a German-born composer and guitarist, born to a Chinese-German father and a Hungarian mother. As a child, he spent most of his time traveling Europe and Asia with his family...
   
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2. "Conquistadores"
3. "Land of the Midnight Sun"
4. "Tigris & Euphrates"
5. "Byzantium"
6. "The Journeys of Marco Polo"
7. "The Horsemen of Bulgar"
8. "Kublai Khan"
9. "The Crusades"

Album credits

• Kristian Schultze
  Kristian Schultze
  Kristian Schultze was one half of the German New Age band Cusco. Schultze has partnered up with Michael Holm and the two have produced numerous new age albums...
  
   – Arranger, keyboard
  Musical keyboard
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  , percussion
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• Manuel Lopez – Acoustic guitar
• Dan Selene – Executive producer
• Michael Holm
  Michael Holm
  Michael Holm is a German singer, musician, songwriter and producer.He is primarily known as a Schlager singer. Although his first appearance in the hit parade was in 1962 , he had his first big hit in 1969...
  
   – Arranger, producer, percussion, keyboard
• Johan Daansen – Guitar
  Guitar
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• David Donnelly – Digital mixing
• Debra Holland – Percussion
• Ottmar Liebert – Guitar
• Klaus Strazicky – Mixing
• Cusco – Main performer
• Matt Marshall – Executive producer
• Biboul Darouiche – Percussion