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Horatiu Radulescu - Sensual Sky/Iubiri

The singing also reminds me of David Sylvian.

I've been digging the new Live in Toronto lately, what a great album, with the three drummers and Mel Collins. I like his bari on the newer tunes. Also checking out Gavin Harrison albums Drop and Circles. Canterbury vocals (some may think not) by the mysterious 05Ric. I like it.

The Harmonic Series: musical works in Just Intonation Ellen Fullman & Theresa Wong Greg Davis Michael Harrison R Keenan Lawler Pauline Oliveros Duane Pitre Zachary James Watkins Charles Curtis

John Luther Adams - the Wind in High Places a favorite since it came out 15 months ago.

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still sad news, it's a shame they can't get it together,

Sort of like being in Weather Report, it pays the bills.

Bit of twang going on there.

Alarm Will Sound performs Aphex

Messiaen Edition, disks 1 & 2

good move!

Essential

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I sent an envelope priority mail to Pittsburgh to arrive by Valentines Day and it took them a week. I think it missed the holiday by five days. Assholes.

Heitor Villa-Lobos - the Complete String Quartets, discs 5 & 6

Horatiu Radulescu - Piano Sonatas & String Quartet

Heitor Villa-Lobos - the Complete String Quartets, disc 4

Horatiu Radulescu - Lao Tzu Sonatas

Horatiu Radulescu - String Quartet 4, Opus 33

I never met him, although I sure know plenty of people that knew him. He certainly seems to have been influential as university professor. I heard him once, playing behind large curtains (sheets!) at the old Knitting Factory. His use of distortion on a violin or viola obscured the just intonation/pure tuning that I was so interested in. From a string qt came an amplified wall of grind. I started a similar thread elsewhere on this forum about six hours before this one was started. Every couple of years I listen to Four Violins, checking to see if my reaction has changed. Great idea for any music.

Philip Glass and Nico Muhly - Music for 2 Violins: Philip Glass and Nico Muhly .

"Tony Conrad, an experimental filmmaker, avant-garde musician and university educator who in the 1960s was a central figure in a flowering Lower Manhattan art movement, died on Saturday at a hospice in Cheektowaga, N.Y., near Buffalo. He was 76. Mr. Conrad’s gallerist, Carol Greene of the Greene Naftali gallery in Manhattan, confirmed his death. She said he had been treated for prostate cancer. Mr. Conrad was relentless and rigorous in expanding the parameters of the fields in which he worked. His early musical compositions like “Four Violins” (1964) were high-volume sustained drones. His first film, “The Flicker” (1965), created a pulsating stroboscopic effect with alternating black and white frames. It was preceded by a stern warning that the film could induce epileptic seizures in certain spectators and that audience members remained in the theater at their own risk." "Upon moving to New York after graduating from Harvard in the early 1960s, Mr. Conrad became a catalytic figure in the Lower East Side art scene. He performed as a violinist with the composer La Monte Young’s Theater of Eternal Music, also known as the Dream Syndicate. He assembled the soundtrack for Jack Smith’s underground movie “Flaming Creatures” (in which he also appeared). And, along with John Cale — a fellow member of the Dream Syndicate — he provided backup for a band called the Primitives, which featured Lou Reed on vocals. Mr. Reed and Mr. Cale went on to found the band the Velvet Underground, and though Mr. Conrad was never a member of it, he did contribute to it inadvertently: The group’s name was taken from the title of a lurid paperback on popular sexology that Mr. Conrad had found on the street and left in the Ludlow Street apartment he shared with Mr. Cale." more here

Lull - Dreamt About Dreaming

electronic music: Lull - Cold Summer Lull - Continue