Iasos, New Age music pioneer, dies aged 77

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here.McGowan also shared a message from Niño, who wrote: “Our Dearest Brother, Friend, Guide, Mentor, Inspiration, and Great Visionary of Celestial Paradise Music has transitioned from his Earth Body today, Saturday, January 6, 2024.“We invite you to please explore the vastness of Iasos.

He poured his heart and soul into his Music and fully intended for it to raise vibrations on Earth, that we all would live in higher harmonic realization of our unique potential, co-existing and co-creating together.”Iasos was born on Jaunary 9, 1947, in Greece, where he moved to New York with his family aged four.

After graduating from Cornell University in 1968 with a degree in cultural anthropology, he eventually settled in Marin County, California.There, he would compose his debut album ‘Inter-Dimensional Music Through Iasos’ (1975), which McGowan praised as “one of the most psychedelic, original works of music ever made.” He would also play flute on his friend Steven Halpern’s record ‘Spectrum Suite’ that same year.

Both albums would go on to establish New Age music as a genre.Iasos would continue to make nineteen more albums until his death, including recently released album ‘The Garden of Salathooslia’ (2023).He is also known for a study undertaken in 1989 at Plymouth State University, whereupon participants were asked to rate the music that sounded the closest to what they heard during their near-death experience.