Yanni Does Not Want To Be Known As A ‘New Age’ Artist [VIDEO EXCLUSIVE]

Yanni, who dropped his 17th studio album this year, Sensuous Chill, doesn’t want to be thought of as a “new age” artist.

Yanni On New Age

Over the years, Yanni has amassed a dedicated following with his impressive output of experimental instrumental music. Without a clear genre befitting the music that the Greek composer and producer creates, many have slapped on the label of “new age.” Yanni, for one, doesn’t think that the label means anything.

“Nobody knows what New Age is! What is New Age?” he asked in an exclusive interview with uInterview.

Answering his own question, Yanni went on to hypothesize about how the term came into being – and how it came to be applied to him and his music.

“There are a bunch of people in Los Angeles, in some small little room, executives from record companies, and they’re all scratching their heads going, ‘What do you want to do with this guy named Yanni? You know, he plays classical music, he plays jazz, he plays this, he’s played that, he plays electronic music, he’s doing this, he’s doing that. What do we categorize him as?’” Yanni mused. “And I can see this one little guy in the back going, ‘Why don’t we call him New Age?’ And everybody went, ‘That sounds really good!’”

What’s the problem with that? “New Age becomes Old Age really fast,” explained Yanni.

Yanni’s Sensuous Chill, which was inspired by his desire for an album that allows the listener to be lost in it from start to finish, features 17 unique tracks. But Yanni likes to think of it as one long, sweeping track.

“Once they all come together as one the whole album becomes a track,” Yanni told uInterview of Sensuous Chill. “There’s a beginning a middle and an end. And it flows, like a song.”