aworks listening log :: #terryriley #johncagelistening #lysandre #sfauthenticism

1. Paul Hillier - In C
2. Christian Fong,Glenn Freeman, Karen Krummel - Three2 / Twenty-Three / Six / Twenty-Six
3. Simone Mancuso - John Cage: Works for percussion #2013
4. Simone Mancuso - La parola al legno
5. Bernard Herrmann / Elmer Bernstein - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
6. The Barton Workshop, James Fulkerson - John Cage: Fourteen, Seven, Ten, Three²
7. Tom Middleton - Lifetracks
8. Christopher Owens - Lysandre #2013

• These mostly opened up my ears. 1 is Terry Riley, 2/3/4/6 are John Cage
• The Tom Middleton album is mostly boring expect for the take on Philip Glass, "Sea of Glass."
• I liked Christopher Owens' former group, Girls, but in a description of one of the tracks from his solo album: "Despite...lush acoustic palette, embellishments like the easy-listening flutes, wandering harmonica, and a meaty electric guitar pattern end up being distracting, since Owens doesn’t follow through with fully developing the song and how all the parts go together." San Francisco music, at its most authentic...