Marc Ribot - Scelsi Morning (2003)

«Marc Ribot's first entry in Tzadik's Modern Composer series allows him to further expand on an already wildly eclectic body of work.»

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Anduin - Forever Waiting (2008)

I'm really sorry for suspending this blog for such a long time, but there are times that music listeners like me feel hopeless because of not facing a good album which makes them think that everyone should listen. Anduin made me wish to return to this blog because Forever Waiting worths definitely sharing here.

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Ruth White - Flowers of Evil (1969)

«To me, Baudelaire's poems are of such unique power that they always seem to rise above the level of the personal and sometimes existential nature of their content. In this composition, I have attempted to parallel the transcendental qualities of the poetry through electronic means.» – Ruth White

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Tim Hecker - Dropped Pianos (2011)

The album that I'm stuck with nowadays.

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Moondog - Self Titled (1969)

«Within a moment's time the final grain of sand will drop.
Upend your hour-glass, old man, or the universe will stop.»
—Moondog

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Ingram Marshall - Evensongs (1996)

«The string quartet, 'Evensongs', is really a collection of pieces, hymnodic meditations, concerning the crepuscular.» —Ingram Marshall

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Annette Peacock - I Have No Feelings (1986)

«Nothing ever was, anyway.»

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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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John Adams - Road Movies (2004)

«What's your road, man? — holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.» Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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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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Ben Woods - A Collection of Thoughts (2008)

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John Luther Adams - The Light That Fills the World (2002)

«Brilliant, crystalline waves of sound...
Adams' music is never less than spellbinding.» – Sequenza 21

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Hakim Bey - T.A.Z. (1994)

«The TAZ (Temporary Autonomous Zone) is like an uprising which does not engage directly with the state, a guerrilla operation which liberates an area (of land, of time, of imagination) and then dissolves itself, to re-form elsewhere / elsewhen, before the state can crush it.» - Hakim Bey

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Noveller - Desert Fires (2010)

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Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (2008)

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Inca Ore - Birthday of Bless You (2008)

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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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Amber Asylum - Frozen in Amber (1996)

Weeping string instruments in an echoing chamber, a dimly lit Lovecraftian chamber. It is the kind of music Erich Zann would make, or possibly did.

1. Volcano Suite
2. Riviera
3. Black Waltz
4. Heckle and Jeckle
5. Journey to the Sleepy Water
6. Je suis le chat, la lune
7. Aurora
8. Ave Maria
9. Romantic Theme

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David Lynch & Marek Zebrowski - Polish Night Music (2008)

David Lynch and Marek Zebrowski ventures into Warsaw cityscape to discover what a Polish night might sound like.

1. Night - City Back Street (13:29)
2. Night - Interiors (26:46)
3. Night - A Woman On A Dark Street Corner (18:51)
4. Night - A Landscape With Factory (17:41)

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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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