"New Age is the term commonly used to designate a broad movement. It is characterised by the individual exploring of spirituality and the grafting of metaphysical beliefs onto traditional religious affiliations. The memorable line 'This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius' brought the New Age concept to the attention of a huge worldwide audience.

Most music described as of New Age genre is instrumental and electronic using keyboard synthesizers. Music labeled New Age often has a vision of a better future, expresses an appreciation of goodness, beauty, and a peaceful vision of a better world.

When I created Peace, Earth, and Guitars, I did not realize that what I was marrying was the world of New age music and its above mentioned charactaristics with classical guitar and its charactaristics of purity of sound and technical level of proficiency. It was a fresh new sound for classical guitar music and the tens of thounsands of copies of both recordings are proof of its universal appeal." - Darren Curtis Skanson