Grammy Award for Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album

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Grammy Award for Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album
Awarded forQuality albums in the
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Formerly calledGrammy Award for Best New Age Album (1992–2022); others
First awarded1987
Currently held byWhite Sun, Mystic Mirror (2023)
Websitegrammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album is presented to recording artists for quality albums in the

National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".[2]

Originally called the Grammy Award for Best New Age Recording, the honor was first presented to Swiss musician

engineers, and/or mixers associated with the nominated work in addition to the recording artists.[5] As of 2023, the category will be known as Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album.[6]

While "new-age" music can be difficult to define, journalist

52nd Grammy Awards, the award is presented for instrumental or vocal new-age albums "containing at least 51% playing time of newly recorded material", with seasonal recordings not being eligible.[8] The addition of the award category reflected a "coming of age" of the music genre, though some musicians classified as new age dislike the term "new age" and some of its negative connotations.[7]

Multiple wins

As of 2015,

1995 for Prayer for the Wild Things as a solo artist. Irish musician Enya has received four awards. Kitarō holds the record for the most nominations, with sixteen (with only one win, in 2001). All five volumes of Kitarō's Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai
series were nominated for Best New Age Album.

Pianist Peter Kater held the record for most nominations without a win, with 12, until he finally won his first Grammy (for Dancing on Water) in 2018. He also holds the record from the most consecutive nominations, with 11, having been nominated every year between 2007 and 2018.

Native American flutist

42nd Grammy Awards he was nominated alongside Paul Horn
for Inside Monument Valley and for his own album Inner Voices.

Recipients

1988 award recipient Yusef Lateef
in 2007
A line of people performing various instruments outdoors; monochromatic flags of various colors are seen in the background
Members of the four-time award-winning band Paul Winter Consort performing in 2005
A man wearing a patterned dress shirt, performing a wind instrument while standing behind a microphone
Paul Winter of the Paul Winter Consort, a two-time award winner as a solo artist, performing at the Clearwater Festival in 2007
1999 award-winning band Clannad at the 2007 Meteor Awards
2001 award winner and frequent nominee Kitarō
2004 award recipient Pat Metheny
performing in 2008
2009 award recipient Jack DeJohnette
performing in 2006
Year[I] Performing artist(s) Work Nominees Ref.
1987
Andreas Vollenweider Down to the Moon
[3]
[7]
1988
Yusef Lateef Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony
[9]
1989
Shadowfax Folksongs for a Nuclear Village [10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
1990
Peter Gabriel
Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ
[14]
1991
Mark Isham Mark Isham [15]
1992
Chip Davis Fresh Aire 7 [16]
1993
Enya Shepherd Moons [17]
1994
Paul Winter Consort Spanish Angel
1995
Paul Winter Prayer for the Wild Things [18]
1996
George Winston Forest [19]
1997
Enya The Memory of Trees
[20]
1998
Michael Hedges Oracle
[21]
1999
Clannad Landmarks
[22]
2000
Paul Winter Celtic Solstice
[23]
2001
Kitarō Thinking of You
[24]
[25]
2002
Enya A Day Without Rain
[26]
2003
Tingstad and Rumbel Acoustic Garden
[27]
2004
Pat Metheny One Quiet Night [28]
2005
William Ackerman Returning [29]
[30]
2006
Paul Winter Consort Silver Solstice
[31]
2007
Enya Amarantine
[32]
2008
Paul Winter Consort
Crestone
[33]
2009
Jack DeJohnette Peace Time
[34]
2010
David Darling Prayer for Compassion
[35]
2011
Paul Winter Consort Miho: Journey to the Mountain
[36]
2012
Pat Metheny What's It All About
2013
Omar Akram Echoes of Love
[37]
2014
Laura Sullivan Love's River
[38]
2015
Ricky Kej and Wouter Kellerman Winds of Samsara
[39]
2016
Paul Avgerinos Grace
2017 White Sun White Sun II [40]
2018 Peter Kater Dancing on Water
[41]
2019 Opium Moon Opium Moon
[42]
2020 Peter Kater Wings [43]
2021
Jim "Kimo" West
More Guitar Stories
[44]
2022 Stewart Copeland & Ricky Kej Divine Tides
[45]
2023 White Sun Mystic Mirror
[46]
2024 Carla Patullo ft. Tonality & The Scorchio Quartet So She Howls

^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

See also

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