New Earth Records is an independent record label

Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

 focusing primarily on New Age Music

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...

 and World Music

World music

World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...

. It was founded in 1990

1990 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1990.-Events:*January 21 – MTV's Unplugged premieres on cable television with British band Squeeze...

 in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, Germany

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, by European entrepreneurs Bhikkhu Schober and Waduda Paradiso under the auspices of the spiritual teacher known as Osho

Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)

Osho , born Chandra Mohan Jain , and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who garnered an international following.A professor of philosophy, he travelled...

. Initially called Tao Music--a name chosen by Osho himself, the company was intended to market and distribute Osho's meditation instruction recordings. However, Schober and Paradiso opted to change the name to New Earth to avoid a trademark dispute with a company with a similar name in Germany.

During the early nineties, New Earth began to expand its scope, signing a number of recording artists who produce eastern-influenced, meditative music. Among the first were Prem Joshua

Prem Joshua

Prem Joshua is a German musician, active since 1991.Born in Germany, Joshua learned the flute at the age of five and played the flute and the saxophone for various local bands. At the age of 18, he traveled overland to India studying the indigenous folk music of countries along the way...

, Al Gromer Khan

Al Gromer Khan

Al Gromer Khan is a German-born sitar player and composer whose music spans the multiple genres of ambient, New Age, world and electronica.- Early influences :...

, Miten

Andy Desmond aka Miten

Andy Desmond aka Miten is a British musician born in Woking, Surrey, August 1947.He founded the folk/rock duo Gothic Horizon with musical partner Richard Garrett in the 60s...

, Hariprasad Chaurasia

Hariprasad Chaurasia

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is an Indian classical instrumentalist. He is a player of the bansuri, the North Indian bamboo flute. Chaurasia is a classicist who has made a conscious effort to reach out and expand the audience for classical music.-Early life:Hariprasad Chaurasia was born in...

 and James Asher

James Asher

James Asher is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and record producer, focusing on world music, trance music and New Age music.-Biography:Born in a suburb of London in the early 1950s, Asher began to study the violin at the age of seven...

.

In 1995, the unprecedented success of the European release of James Asher's, Feet In The Soil, spurred the independent label to move to Boulder, Colorado

Boulder, Colorado

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, United States

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, (according to the New Earth catalog, the album has sold over 200,000 copies and has "defined world beat as a genre." )

In 1999, New Earth moved its creative offices to Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe, New Mexico

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.

Today, New Earth's catalog is dominated by music intended to accompany various alternative healing practices such as Reiki

Reiki

is a spiritual practice developed in 1922 by Japanese Buddhist Mikao Usui. The teaching was continued and adapted by various teachers. It uses a technique commonly called palm healing as a form of complementary and alternative medicine and is sometimes classified as oriental medicine by some...

, massage

Massage

Massage is the manipulation of superficial and deeper layers of muscle and connective tissue to enhance function, aid in the healing process, and promote relaxation and well-being. The word comes from the French massage "friction of kneading", or from Arabic massa meaning "to touch, feel or handle"...

, meditation

Meditation

Meditation is any form of a family of practices in which practitioners train their minds or self-induce a mode of consciousness to realize some benefit....

, and Yoga

Yoga

Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on Supersoul...

. New Earth's slogan, "Visionary music to enhance well being," suggests a cultivated focus on the LOHAS

LOHAS

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 market segment.

New Earth's most prominent artists include Deuter

Deuter

Deuter is a German New Age instrumentalist and recording artist known for his meditative style that blends Eastern and Western musical styles.- Biography :...

, Rasa, Lisa Lynne

Lisa Lynne

Lisa Lynne is a Celtic harpist and composer and New Age recording artist residing in Los Angeles, California.Lisa Lynne is a self-proclaimed multi-instrumentalist who has "spent the last eighteen years pursuing her passion for the Celtic harp."...

, Manose, Terry Oldfield

Terry Oldfield

Terence "Terry" Oldfield is an English composer. He is brother to well-known music composers and performers Sally and Mike Oldfield.- Early life :...

, Chinmaya Dunster

Chinmaya Dunster

Chinmaya Dunster is an English-born Sarod player whose compositions incorporate elements of Celtic and Hindustani music. He is an active environmentalist and performs concerts to foster awareness for saving ecosystems and wildlife.- Biography :...

, and James Asher

James Asher

James Asher is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and record producer, focusing on world music, trance music and New Age music.-Biography:Born in a suburb of London in the early 1950s, Asher began to study the violin at the age of seven...

.

In 2010 New Earth Records licensed the album Beyond: Buddhist and Christian Prayers, which features Tina Turner

Tina Turner

Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...

, Dechen Shak-Dagsay

Dechen Shak-Dagsay

Dechen Shak-Dagsay is a contemporary singer of traditional Tibetan Buddhist mantras. She is the daughter of the Dagsay Tulku. Born in Kathmandu, Nepal in 1959, Dechen and her family moved to Switzerland in 1963, where she has resided ever since....

, and Regula Curti. The album, endorsed by the Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word далай meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word bla-ma meaning "teacher"...

, is designed to take the listener 'beyond religious differences.'

Discography

• Al Gromer Khan
  Al Gromer Khan
  Al Gromer Khan is a German-born sitar player and composer whose music spans the multiple genres of ambient, New Age, world and electronica.- Early influences :...
  
   - Future Lounge
• Al Gromer Khan - Kamasutra Experience
• Al Gromer Khan - Sitar Secrets
• Al Gromer Khan - Space Hotel
• Al Gromer Khan - Sufi
• Al Gromer Khan - Tantra Drums
• Al Gromer Khan - Tantra Electronica
• Anuvida & Nik Tyndall - Reiki
  Reiki
  is a spiritual practice developed in 1922 by Japanese Buddhist Mikao Usui. The teaching was continued and adapted by various teachers. It uses a technique commonly called palm healing as a form of complementary and alternative medicine and is sometimes classified as oriental medicine by some...
  
   Essence
• Anuvida & Nik Tyndall Reiki Healing Hands
• Ashik - Gypsy Soul
• Bhakta - Open Transmission
• Chinmaya Dunster - Buddha Moon
• Chinmaya Dunster - Celtic Ragas
• Chinmaya Dunster - Feng Shui – The Eightfold Path
• Chinmaya Dunster - Fragrance of the East
• Chinmaya Dunster - Karma Circles
• Chinmaya Dunster - Land of the Buddhas
• Chinmaya Dunster - Sacred Temples of India
• Chinmaya Dunster - Yoga: On Sacred Ground
• Chinmaya Dunster & Niladri Kumar
  Niladri Kumar
  Niladri Kumar is an Indian classical and fusion musician. He performed on the sitar from a young age and toured and released albums as an adult. He created a unique instrument, a modified sitar, which he named zitar.-Early life:...
  
   - Yoga Lounge
• Cybertribe - Dharma Café
• Cybertribe - Eons of Dignity
• Cybertribe - Immoratality
• Cybertribe - Sacred Memories of the Future
• Cybertribe - Time Travel
• Deben Bhattacharya
  Deben Bhattacharya
  Deben Bhattacharya was a Bengali radio producer, record producer, ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, documentary filmmaker, photographer, translator, poet, writer, broadcaster, lecturer, and folk music consultant...
  
   - Dervish Ceremonies
• Deben Bhattacharya - Temple Music from Tibet
• Deben Bhattacharya - Zingari
• Dechen Shak Dagsay - Dewa Che
• Dechen Shak-Dagsay - Shi De: A Time for Peace
• Deuter - Atmospheres
• Deuter
  Deuter
  Deuter is a German New Age instrumentalist and recording artist known for his meditative style that blends Eastern and Western musical styles.- Biography :...
  
   - Buddha Nature
• Deuter - Celebration of Light
• Deuter - Earth Blue
• Deuter - East of the Full Moon
• Deuter - Eternity
• Deuter - Koyasan: Reiki Sound Healing
• Deuter - Like the Wind in the Trees
• Deuter - Mystery of Light
• Deuter - Nada Himalaya
• Deuter - Reiki Hands of Light
• Deuter - Sea & Silence
• Deuter - Spiritual Healing
• Deuter - Sun Spirit
• Deuter - Tibet: Nada Himalaya 2
• Deuter - Wind & Mountain
• Deuter & Annette Cantor - Garden of the Gods
• Galactic Agents - Human Contact
• Ganga Giri - Tribe Vibe
• Hans Christian
  Hans Christian
  Hans Christian is a German-born musician and producer now based in the U.S. in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Christian is a multi-instrumentalist usually associated with Indian world music, ethnic fusion, chamber jazz, and sometimes New Age music, but who also plays classical music...
  
   - Light & Spirit
• Hariprasad Chaurasia
  Hariprasad Chaurasia
  Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is an Indian classical instrumentalist. He is a player of the bansuri, the North Indian bamboo flute. Chaurasia is a classicist who has made a conscious effort to reach out and expand the audience for classical music.-Early life:Hariprasad Chaurasia was born in...
  
   - Meditative Romance
• James Asher
  James Asher
  James Asher is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and record producer, focusing on world music, trance music and New Age music.-Biography:Born in a suburb of London in the early 1950s, Asher began to study the violin at the age of seven...
  
   - Colors of Trance
• James Asher - Drums on Fire
• James Asher - Feet in the Soil
• James Asher - Feet in the Soil 2
• James Asher - Kali Thunder
• James Asher - Lotus Path
• James Asher - Shaman Drums
• James Asher - Tigers of the Raj
• Kamal
  Kamal
  A kamal is a celestial navigation device that determines latitude. The invention of the kamal allowed for the earliest known latitude sailing, and was thus the earliest step towards the use of quantitative methods in navigation. It originated with Arab navigators of the late 9th century, and was...
  
   - Mystery Road
• Kamal - Mystic India
• Kamal - Quiet Earth
• Kamal - Reiki Whale Dreaming
• Kamal - Reiki Whale Meditation
• Kamal - Reiki Whale Song
• Kamal - Zen Mama
• Kavi - Breath of Fire
• Kavi - Unconditional Love
• Klaus Wiese
  Klaus Wiese
  Klaus Wiese was a veteran e-musician, minimalist, and multi-instrumentalist. A master of the tibetan singing bowl, he created an extensive series of album releases using them...
  
   - Qalandar Black Rose
• Lisa Lynne
  Lisa Lynne
  Lisa Lynne is a Celtic harpist and composer and New Age recording artist residing in Los Angeles, California.Lisa Lynne is a self-proclaimed multi-instrumentalist who has "spent the last eighteen years pursuing her passion for the Celtic harp."...
  
   - Hopes & Dreams
• Lisa Lynne - Love & Peace
• Lisa Lynne - Maiden’s Prayer
• Lisa Lynne - Two Worlds One
• Manose Singh - Yoga Ragas
• Music From the World Of Osho
  Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
  Osho , born Chandra Mohan Jain , and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who garnered an international following.A professor of philosophy, he travelled...
  
   - Garden of the Gods
• Music From the World Of Osho - In Wonder
• Music From the World Of Osho - Music for Osho
  Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
  Osho , born Chandra Mohan Jain , and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who garnered an international following.A professor of philosophy, he travelled...
  
   Zen Tarot
• Music From the World Of Osho - Sutras of the Heart
• Nadama - Heart to Heart
• Namasté - Magical Healing Mantras
• Osho
  Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
  Osho , born Chandra Mohan Jain , and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who garnered an international following.A professor of philosophy, he travelled...
  
   - Chakra Breathing Meditaion
• Osho - Chakra Sounds Meditation
• Osho - Dynamic Meditation
• Osho - Gourishankar Mediation
• Osho - Intimacy
• Osho - Kundalini Meditation
• Osho - Mandala Meditation
• Osho - Nadabrahma Meditation (1992-01-01)
• Osho - Nataraj Meditation
• Osho - No Dimensions Meditation
• Osho - The Bliss of Aloneness
• Osho - The Golden Future
• Osho - The Master Key
• Osho - Whirling Meditation
• Padma Previ - Divine Visions
• Padma Previ - Goddess Chants
• Parijat - Buddha Garden
• Parijat - Reiki Healing Waves
• Prem Joshua
  Prem Joshua
  Prem Joshua is a German musician, active since 1991.Born in Germany, Joshua learned the flute at the age of five and played the flute and the saxophone for various local bands. At the age of 18, he traveled overland to India studying the indigenous folk music of countries along the way...
  
   - Desert Visions
• Prem Joshua - Hamsafar
• Prem Joshua - Secret of the Wind
• Ranga - Radiant Awakening
• Rasa - Saffron Blue
• Rasa - Shelter
• Rasa - Temple of Love
• Reuben Romero - Christmas in Santa Fe
• Reuben Romero - Native Brotherhood
• Subhira - Cani Sacred Rainforest
• Terry Oldfield - A Time for Peace
• Terry Oldfield - Across the Universe
• Terry Oldfield - Celtic Spirit
• Terry Oldfield & Soraya Saraswati - Chakra Clearing & Healing Sounds
• Terry Oldfield
  Terry Oldfield
  Terence "Terry" Oldfield is an English composer. He is brother to well-known music composers and performers Sally and Mike Oldfield.- Early life :...
  
   De Profundis: Out of the Depths 2
• Terry Oldfield - In the Presence of Light
• Terry Oldfield & Soraya Saraswati - Mandala: Circle of Chant
• Terry Oldfield - Out of the Depths
• Terry Oldfield - Reiki Harmony
• Terry Oldfield - Spirit of Africa
• Terry Oldfield - Spirit of Australia: Waking the Spirit
• Terry Oldfield - Spirit of India
• Terry Oldfield - Spirit of the Rainforest
• Terry Oldfield - Spirit of the World
• Terry Oldfield - Tears for Tibet
• Terry Oldfield - Turning Point
• Terry Oldfield - Yoga Harmony
• Terry Oldfield - Yoga Nidra
• Tina Turner - Beyond
• Turiya Hanover
  Turiya Hanover
  Turiya Hanover, otherwise Wibke, Prinzessin von Hannover, née van Gunsteren , is an Australian spiritualist, and a married-in member of the Royal Family of Hanover. She has published some new-age music....
  
   - Awakening of the Heart
• Turiya Hanover - Forgiveness Meditation
• Turiya Hanover - Healing the Body
• Tya - Tribal Sutras
• Ustad Usman Khan - Journey in Dream
• Various Artists - Essence of Wellbeing
• Various Artists - Essential Touch
• Various Artists - Fast Forward
• Various Artists - Inner Balance
• Various Artists - Journey Into Light
• Various Artists - Meditation Yoga
• Various Artists - Mystic India
• Various Artists - Prana Yoga
• Various Artists - One World Party
• Various Artists - Reiki Wellness
• Various Artists - Shambala
• Various Artists - Spa Lounge
• Various Artists - Spirit Lounge
• Various Artists - Trance Yoga
• Waterbone - Orion Prophecy