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Well, here's some lovely ditties I would like to recommend:
-Evan Parker/Sainkho Namchilak "Mars Song." This piece of plastic that spins will either kill off your head or change your listening habits for years to come. Evan Parker is one of my favorite reeds players and Sainkho is an amazing japanese vocalist who like Yamasuka Eye of the Boredoms is not a singer but practitioner of the warping of vocal chords. It's a duo recording of pure sound, never noise in that boring way you hear in hip record shops, but truely aurally exploratory. It was recorded live in Canada and is certainly an interesting listening experience.
-Peter Kowald "Duos" FMP records. Peter Kowald is probably my favorite stand up bass player. He sounds very little like anyone out there, sometimes combining vocal drones with a virtuostic flourish of spinning notes. He can transform an ordinary instrument to a demonic growl of scraping filaments and tape loops. "Duos" is a cd of, yes, duos. It's a document of the various collaborations between Japanese, European, and American musicians, and is a fascinating CD. Most of the peices are improvised on the spot, yet some were formulated with specific ideas in mind like the Peter Brotzmann(reeds), and Diamanda Galas(vocals) duos. It is never boring and I would recommend picking up if you are at all interested in the avant garde jazz of Europe.
-764-Hero. This band is the perfect median between Built To Spill and Modest Mouse. Melodic, beautiful, and rocking. Certainly no avant garde in this one, but amazing none the less.
-ISO "S/T" CD on Alcohol. An amazing "noise" project that doesn't sound like a detuned radio broadcasting a spaceshuttle take off. It combines turntables, sine waves, sampling, and whatever other sound oddities to make a tremendous shiny fucker of a cd. Members of the seminal Ground Zero project like Otomo Yoshishide, and others are involved. If you are at all interested in out there sound recordings pick this up. It can and will be called classic. I can't describe what it sounds like but take my word that it doesn't sound like anything else out there. Challenging music but oh so worth while.
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