I love articles that try to redefine music genres. As you know, the perception of a genre is much more static than music itself. Excellent webpage Popmatters.com has a comprehensive introduction of the music of famous soul artist Maxwell – who recently released the album BLACKsummers’night. I quote from the article about his album Embrya (1998):

So even though his first album showed promise, he was still on a short hook with me and his second album  Embrya seemed amorphous and it appeared that instead of delving deeper into soul music, Maxwell was starting a vacuous one man genre that could easily be called neo new age music.      

This is not meant as a positive description, I get that. But as a new age music fan I find that Embrya is a very chilled album, with beautiful ambient qualities and a world class vocal. Sample it here.

Here is the complete article.