In the early 1980s, a Canadian pianist named Misa Jones wrote a collection of music. The music collected there has picturesque titles, such as After the Rainbow, Beyond Dreams, Sunshine Valley and Butterflies in Space. He wrote a biography of himself in the preface, saying that he wanted to be a music painter. Then slowly, he found his own music language. At this time, he no longer pursues what image to describe with music, but expresses his feelings, the feeling that snowflakes fall and touch the ground in the quiet night; The breeze blows through the dry smell of sedge; The feeling of wrinkles caused by lightning in the distant sky; The feeling of the lake beating against the coast in the evening ...
Micha Jones's music is very quiet, and most of it is repeated in one sound pattern; Harmony is simple, with few complex dissonance, which seems to be more common in the style of changing forms and modes; The melody is simple and easy to understand; The tone color is not strong and sometimes there is no melody. Listen, listen, you will forget that this is Michael Jones' music, not the whisper of leaves.
The pianist met the manager of a music publishing company in 1983, and the publisher always wanted to introduce a new kind of music suitable for people to listen to in their leisure time. The two hit it off, and soon Misa's works gradually spread in the United States. At first, this kind of music was not so eye-catching, and the owners of various record stores didn't know where to put it. It is like light music, which has no profound truth, but it has the style and style of classical music. It is popular, but it shows a detached state of mind; Easy to pop, but not as mediocre and turbulent as ordinary pop music. Some record stores had to list it under the so-called latest arrival counter, which gradually became a climate, and some publications of Hong Kong and Taiwan were also translated into music of "new era" or "new century".