von Baron Music - Debut Album Pangaea - New Age Music CD - Streaming New Age Music

Y ou might say that von Baron Music began many years ago when von Baron was growing up in the Midwestern United States. Classical, Jazz, and New Age music could always be heard drifting from the speakers of this New Age music composer's family stereos. As a teenager, von Baron listened hungrily to his mother’s cassette tapes of Andreas Vollenweider the New Age harpist and his father’s Jazz records by Herbie Hancock, Bob James, and Sergio Mendez. von Baron started playing drums a little later than most, at the age of fifteen but had already been beating on pots and pans and breakdancing for several years. Rhythm was in his blood as we now see many years later in his debut album Pangaea.

v on Baron spent three years studying drums, percussion and music at both the University of Missouri at Kansas City, Missouri and then at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied Classical, Jazz, and Brazilian music extensively, three styles of music that form the foundation for his New Age music today. von Baron went on to attend the University of Washington in Seattle Washington and complete his undergraduate studies in Cultural Anthropology instead of music because of life changing experiences during a three and a half month backpacking trip through Europe in the early nineties. von Baron has said of his adventure, “It changed the way I thought about people and our planet forever. I discovered that even though our world may seem big, all of us are in fact connected no matter what language we speak.”

von Baron also traveled to Brazil where he learned about Brazilian percussion firsthand from musicians in Salvador, Bahia and experienced the beauty of Brazil’s spirit that comes from it’s people, music and dance. He recalls, “I remember seven year old children that could play drums better than me and some kids would even sit in the back of the bus singing and beating out rhythms to their favorite Samba Reggae bands on the seats, walls, windows and anything else they could find that sounded like a drum”.

In early 2000, von Baron moved to Honolulu, Hawaii and has enjoyed a very rewarding career in music performing and recording with local, national and international artists of many genres. Over the years, von Baron has worked with artists and groups including, The Honolulu Jazz Quartet, John Valentine ,Shelly Berg, Don Ho, the Honolulu Symphony, Mihana Souza, Show Brazil! and many others.

After twenty enjoyable years of performing as a sideman, von Baron has released his first album of inspiring and refreshing New Age music. In his debut album PANGAEA, recorded under his own label von Baron Music, LLC, von Baron is drawing on musical influences from places around the world including Brazil, the U.S., Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. This album makes for a both exhilarating and satisfying musical journey unifying New Age music and World Music into a genre von Baron refers to as “World Age Music.” The von Baron debut album Pangaea is filled with lush harmonies, soaring melodies, and pulsating rhythms that speak from the heart in the universal language that we all understand, music. von Baron has one purpose in the creation of this New Age music CD, and that is to bring our world closer together through tolerance and understanding for a lasting peace not only in the world but also within ourselves. To begin streaming von Baron's New Age music online, please visit The Music page.

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