Will Oldham + Bill Callahan
(1993) The Sundowners - Goat Songs / 192k
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Sea Note Records
Will Oldham + David Pajo
(2002) The Continental Op - Slitch Music / 256k
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Drag City Records
Will Oldham + Mick Turner
(2000) Marquis de Tren & Bonny Billy - Get on Jolly / 192k
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Palace Records
Will Oldham + Mick Turner
(2001) Marquis de Tren & Bonny Billy - Get the Fuck on Jolly Live / 192k
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Palace Records
Conceptually inspired by Satie, Stockhausen, Cage and others, Brian Eno has reached the touchstone of what would become a pillar in experimental music with Discreet Music. The idea of ambience preceding music per se has been intensely explored by Satie, and taken to extreme with Cage: the concept of form has been perverted throughout his work in aspects such as length, source, harmony and reproductivity.
Eno, allied to Gavin Bryars (and spiritually assisted by Robert Fripp), released Discreet Music in 1975. The process of tapelooping was heavily explored by both Fripp and Eno in previous collaborations. This technique analogically scrutinized the possibilities of pitch and length variations in overdub, with discrete (separate) groups of patterns discreetly (restrainedly) intertwined. Eventually, the announced intention of achieving pictorical sensations was later baptized of Ambient Music.
Albeit being endlessly remembered by the thirty minute plus self-titled track, which effectively landmarked Eno's goals by the use of the referred techniques and concepts, the undervalued ageless second half of the album reached the acme of minimal placidity. While the former is inevitably dated through processes of semiotics, the latter, 3 variations of Pachelbel's Canon performed by Gavin Bryars' ensemble, remains undeniably influential as observed in several ambient and contemporary classical acts.
Bryars' first solo attempt was recorded in 75 and released the year after by Eno's Obscure label. It gathers much of what he's performed in Discreet Music, in an excellent debut release, disconsidered the exaggerated use of sampled voice in the closing track.
(1975) Brian Eno - Discreet Music / V0
EG Records
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(1976) Gavin Bryars - Sinking of the Titanic/Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet / 320k
Obscure Records
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(part 1 / part 2)
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John Cage (performers: Arditti Quartet)
The Complete String Quartets
(1989) Vol. 1, (1992) Vol. 2 / 320k
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John Cage (performers: Dennis Russell Davies and Margaret Leng Tan)
John Cage (performer: Frances-Marie Uitti)
"The title of this EP couldn't be more appropriate, clocking in at less than 10 minutes; ... For fans of ebullient and exciting noise rock, this release will show you where the contemporary Japanese noise bands (e.g., The Boredoms) got their inspiration." (AMG)
(1981) A Taste of DNA / 320k
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