Freddie Hubbard & Ilhan Mimaroglu - Sing Me a Song of Songmy (1971)

Early electronic music pioneer Ilhan Mimaroglu (of Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center) collaborates here with Freddie Hubbard (who was initiated into free jazz by Ornette Coleman in 1960). Also featuring, musicians Junior Cook, Kenny Barron, Art Booth, Louis Hayes and Arif Mardin. To describe the album in a single word: A Tempest.

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Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (1976)

1998 recording of Reich's minimalist masterpiece, Music for 18 Musicians (1974-1976)

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John Cage - Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake (1979)

Well, what to say about this? A masterpiece, and it is not at all an exaggeration. Mastermind of John Cage, madcap text of James Joyce and the lure of Uilleann pipes blossom into a (rather much green) clover dream. Here are the liner notes by John Cage himself, which explains it all.

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La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela & The Theatre of Eternal Music - Dream House 78' 17" (1974)

The Theatre of Eternal Music was a musical group founded back in the 60's featuring musicians such as Tony Conrad, John Cale, Angus MacLise, Jon Hassell and occasionally Terry Riley. On this record we are privileged to hear Jon Hassell (trumpet) and Garrett List (trombone) together with La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela. The influence of Pandit Pran Nath is quite obvious on the first track.

01 13 I 73 5:35-6:14:03 PM NYC From Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery

02 Drift Study 14 VII 73 9:27:27-10:06:41 PM NYC

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Luc Ferrari - Interrupteur-Tautologos 3 (1970)

01 - Interrupteur (For Ten Instruments, 1967) Pt.1
02 - Interrupteur (For Ten Instruments, 1967) Pt.2
03 - Interrupteur (For Ten Instruments, 1967) Pt.3
04 - Interrupteur (For Ten Instruments, 1967) Pt.4
05 - Tautologos 3 (For Eleven Instrumentalists And Magnetic Tape, 1970) Pt.1
06 - Tautologos 3 (For Eleven Instrumentalists And Magnetic Tape, 1970) Pt.2
07 - Tautologos 3 (For Eleven Instrumentalists And Magnetic Tape, 1970) Pt.3
08 - Tautologos 3 (For Eleven Instrumentalists And Magnetic Tape, 1970) Pt.4
09 - Tautologos 3 (For Eleven Instrumentalists And Magnetic Tape, 1970) Pt.5

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