Go to the Jade Warrior home pageHi! This mailing list was set up to serve as a focus for discussions concerning the British musical group Jade Warrior. Please read on.
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I've been enjoying Jade Warrior's music since I first heard "Floating World" on my college radio station back in the early 1970s. Their music has always been interesting and challenging, and well ahead of its time. Jade Warrior is still (as of late 1993) making excellent music.
They have been a seriously under-recognized and under-appreciated group, due in part to the poor support from their record companies. Most of their albums have been very difficult to find and buy (even when first released) and most been out of print in the U.S. for years.
With the release of the "Elements" two-CD anthology by Island Records in September 1995, there seems to be an opportunity for Jade Warrior's music to be introduced to a wider audience. There seems to be some possibility that other Jade Warrior albums (specifically, the three early albums on Vertigo) will be remastered and re-released.
I would like to encourage fans of progressive, world, and "new age" music, who are not familiar with the music of Jade Warrior, to give them a listen. Those of you who are fans of their music: pass the word along to other people! If you're a DJ, please consider giving airplay to some tracks from Elements or Distant Echoes.
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