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Holy Beefheart
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band “The Host, the Ghost, the Most Holy-O” on Ice Cream for Crow. 1982.
Pipes fried for Christ
Amps for Christ “Reversed Pipes” on Electrosphere 1999. That sound and tuning is so good.
Morton Feldman’s Madame Press
“Madame Press Died Last Week at 90” is a weird and beautiful work by Feldman, here performed by John Adams conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Re-orchestrating a chord.
Horse Lords’ “Against Gravity”
Unusual tunings, rhythms, and fun with it. Listen for the Shepard-Risset glissando on “Against Gravity.” A nod to James Tenney’s “For Ann: Rising”? The Common Task by Horse Lords
Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake
“Season in the Sun” on The Newest Sound Around. Stark and warm, austere and tuneful, the new sound in 1962 and today.
“Bassackwards” by Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile’s “Bassackwards” from Bottle It In. Strange song, one of those songs where only one thing happens.
Nick Storring’s Magic
“My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell” brings so many sounds, genres, moods together. It’s a lovely trip. My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell by Nick Storring