David Naegele

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Gender: Male

Country: United States

Description: A native of Minnesota, David Naegele displayed a deep love for music at an early age, quickly developing a prodigious talent for the classical and romantic keyboard repertoire. While David considers himself a classical pianist, he loves the sensual, floating and unstructured qualities of New Age music and has co-produced and performed on several new Age music albums. David Naegele worked at Valley of the Sun Publishing from fall of 1980 until 1991 and was the in-house music producer from 1980 through spring of 1983 when Robert Slap took over those duties. Primarily a classical pianist, his first production was a collection of mellow piano pieces called 'Classical Meditations' (AM104)in November 1980. In 1981, he produced both 'Upper Astral Suite'(AM105) and 'Manifestations'(AM106) followed by 2 more titles under his name: 'Pentatonic Suite'(AM107) and 'Reveries' (AM108). In the winter of 1982, he got together with his friend and neighbor David Storrs and collaborated on the Upper Astral title 'Crystal Cave(Back To Atlantis)'(AM109) and another title under his name called 'Dreams of Atlantis' (AM110). In October of 1982, David Storrs and he collaborated on 2 Upper Astral titles: 'Skybirds' (AM111) and 'Entrance to the Secret Lagoon' (AM113); and a title under his name called 'Temple In The Forest' (AM112). Around February of 1983, David Storrs (musician, composer and producer) went on a tremendous creative binge and produced 6 titles in the span of about a week, including: 'Dawning of the New Age' (AM114), 'Journeys Out of Body' (AM115) and 'Dreamscapes' (AM116) under Naegele's (even though he says he didn't contribute more than equipment, concepts and ad copy); and then 'Celestial Odysseys' (AM117) under the name of Galactic Odyssey; and then 2 more Upper Astral titles called 'Higher-Self Rendezvous' (AM118) and 'Journey to the Edge of the Universe' (AM119). After that, Naegele turned over my duties to Robert Slap at Valley of the Sun and the only other Upper Astral title after Slap took over production duties was called 'Astral Massage' (AM140). When it came time to transfer all the early cassette titles to the new CD technology in 1987, only one title had master tapes in good enough quality for digital transfer to CD and that was 'Temple In The Forest' . Of course Valley of the Sun went on with many other titles from David Storrs, Robert Slap, Robin Miller, Karl Schaffner, Robert Martin and others. Naegele has said of those years: "I have not had any personal contact with VOS since I left in 1991, but I must admit those were some of the best years of life. " Less In Groups: Celestial Odysseys, Upper Astral