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aworks top ten :: today's listening #perchance #modularsynth

1. William Tyler - Man of Oran. Deseret Canyon
2. Jon Hopkins - Open Eye Signal. Immunity
3. Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld - And Still They Move. Never Were the Way She Was
4. The Modern Jazz Quartet - Bags' Groove. The Modern Jazz Quartet (Bonus Track Version)
5. Judd Greenstein / Now Ensemble - City Boy. Dreamfall
6. Gloria Coates / Susan Allen - Perchance to Dream. Postcard from Heaven. Not quite typical harp music.
7. Steve Flato - I'll Never Be Able to Afford a Modular Synth. Poverty Electronics.  The artist "is concerned with impurity, taking processes and concepts and freely interchanging them without the process necessarily dictating form."
8. William Tyler - The Sleeping Prophet. Deseret Canyon
9. Ornette Coleman - Ramblin'. Change of the Century.
10. Steve Gunn - Water Wheel. 2015-01-11 Rough Trade, Brooklyn, NY

aworks top ten :: today's listening #possibility #difficulty #railroad

1. Aidan Baker - Doors as Possible. Souvenirs of the Eternal Present EP
2. David Lang - The Difficulty of Crossing a Field. A new and interesting recording from Cantaloupe Music. 
3. Modern Jazz Quartet - Bag's Groove (Live). The Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige & Pablo Recordings
4. Steve Gunn - Dive for the Pearl. Melodies for a Savage Fix
5. Steve Gunn - Topeka AM. Melodies for a Savage Fix
6. Atheus - Deploy. Occult Symphony (Unmixed)
7. Steely Dan - Do It Again. Can't Buy a Thrill
8. Charles Ives / Stephen Drury - The Celestial Railroad. Faith, The Loss of Faith, And The Return of Faith. The album is a mis-mash of Ives, Liszt, Beethoven and Stockhausen.
9. Rolling Stones - Stray Cat Blues. Live at University of Leeds / 1971. Earlier this year, I read a Brian Jones biography and was repulsed by how he was treated by Jagger, Richards and others. But I'm past it and back to listening.
10. Modern Jazz Quartet - Gershwin Medley: Soon / For You, For Me, Forever More / Love Walked In / Our Love Is Here to Stay