aworks five-star links and tracks :: november 28, 2008

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• String Quartet 8 - Prayer. Gloria Coates. After yesterday's Duke Ellington -- the aural equivalent of turkey and dressing -- today it's time for the more tart cranberry salad of Gloria Coates. This is a simple track sans glissando. lala
• Varaha, Avatàra. Giacinto Scelsi. Werner Bärtschi. Dense piano music. Here's a lala stream of an alternate recording.
• When you are a child the last thing you want is for a parent (for instance) to enter the fort, bringing with them, inevitably, the stigma of the mundane. :: some childhood insight via Andrew Sullivan.