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aworks pick only ten :: week of april 30, 2011 /aging contemporaries/

I'm relatively satisifed with my playlist of the best of this week's listening. It doesn't include two items that were completely puzzling (John Cage/Sun Ra and Terry Riley & Son) but I like what I picked, even if it has a feel of aging contemporaries:

1. Song of the Path Guides. Eliane Radigue (and Robert Ashley)
2. Act II Scene XI from Four Walls. John Cage
3. Appalachian Grove I. Laurie Spiegel
4. Krautrock. Faust
5. Servo. Brian Jonestown Massacre
6. Lizard Point. Brian Eno
7. Duet for Contrabass and Bassoon. Muhal Richard Abrams
8. Psyche Rock. Pierre Henry
9. A Crimson Grail Part 3. Rhys Chatham
10. Excerpt from Stain. Maryanne Amacher

aworks pick only ten :: week of april 23, 2011 /up to but not including/

Best of last week:

I generally can't get enough of early Philip Glass, up to but not including Einstein on the Beach...Duet for Contrabass and Piano by Muhal Richard Abrams is the most "outside" music of the week, although last night I did listen to Throbbing Gristle...Alexandra Silocea plays Prokofiev piano sonatas...That Chick Corea/Return to Forever album still sounds good to me even if most of the world considers it grandiose jazz fusion...James Farm is a mildly interesting new jazz album with saxophonist Joshua Redman and others...I really need to see Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry again.

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