birds, vinyl, drone and graceful degradations

- alio die & saffron wood - corteggiando le messi - hic sunt leones, 2006
verging of many types of music: classical, (world & new age), drone and especially the non-music (his trademark water sounds, birds and nature sounds), with elements just barely at the threshold of visibility

- asher: intervals - the land of, 2008
the three asher related releases on this list are all sublime, quiet, ghostly, melodic & "music quite a bit in the background, like satie and his elevator music. i like the way the tunes sound from my kitchen, traversing 2 rooms. the little melodies are pretty how they come and go in the fuzz" m swiezynski

- asher + ubeboet - cell memory - wind measure recordings, 2008

- william barklow - voices of the loon - north american loon fund, 1980
the best of the bird releases i have listed here

- christopher bissonnette - in between words - kranky, 2008
"using orchestral sound sources as well as recording his own sounds to manipulate and process, bissonnette has crafted a symphony of six movements, with melodies as ghostly apparitions that fade in and out of view"

- donald j. borror - songs of eastern birds - dover publications, 1970
academic faculties of zoology and entomology, the ohio state university
genre: non-music

- a broken consort - three songs - sustain release, 2008
edition 1 of 1, the sounds of invisible birds overhead, black landscapes, and broken consorts

- taylor deupree - northern - 12k, 2008
re-release. as the deputy managing director of all international monetary business for this blog states: "these are some real jazzy tunes"

- morton feldman - the viola in my life - ecm, 2008

- fennesz/jeck/matthews - amoroso - touch, 2008
release is an homage to arvo pärt

- joe grimm - brain cloud - spekk, 2008
the first track is very beautiful

- philip jeck: sand - touch, 2008

- ali akbar khan - the classical music of ali akbar khan - prestige, 1964
- ali akbar khan - the soul of indian music - prestige, 1965

- laboratory of ornithology at cornell university: an anthology of over 200 american bird songs - olympic records corporation, 1980
found these bird recordings on closetcurios2.blogspot.com

- lau nau - nukkuu - fonal, 2008

- stephan mathieu - radioland - die schachtel, 2008
"exclusively based on real-time processed shortwave radio signals, radioland takes the listener on a carpet ride across endless, majestic shimmering landscapes" the best of his discs yet

- willie nelson - country willie - united artists records, 1965

- paavoharju: laulu laakson kukista - fonal, 2008
finnish bird drone/folk, a couple of nice tracks, and some fine melodies

- vidna obmana & asmus tietchens: motives for recycling - soleilmoon, 1999

- mathieu ruhlmann + celer - mesoscaphe - spekk, 2008
"dedicated to the 1969 voyage of the ben franklin, a naturally propelled submarine, sometimes less memorably referred to as the grumman/piccard px-15, designed for the exploration of the gulf stream's currents"

- sangeet trio (vishwa mohan bhatt, tarun bhattacharya, renu mojumdar): inde du nord, sangeet trio en concert - ocora radio france, 1995
recorded in théâtre de la ville, paris, found all these acora discs on differentwaters.blogspot.com, thank you kindly

- colin andrew sheffield: first thus - elevator bath, 2005
some stunning transforming of prerecorded music *
other elevator bath recordings including:
rick reed - dark skies at noon
ilya monosov - architecture on air and other works
josh ronsen + john grzinich + rick reed - frequency curtain

- frank sinatra - romantic songs from the early years - columbia
- frank sinatra - a swingin' affair! - capital, 1956
- frank sinatra - sinatra sings of love and other things - capital

- jerry and norma stillwell: bird songs of dooryard, field and forest - ficker recording, 1961

- svarte greiner - til seters - a room forever, 2008
2 tracks from erik skodvin, surely very heavy, and sublime, with an lp image not unlike the lush drones, (but on paper too glossy)

- tape - milieu plus - häpna, 2003/2008
- tape - opera plus - häpna, 2003/2008
- tape - luminarium - häpna, 2008

- john tavener, arvo pärt, henryk mikołaj górecki - tavener, pärt, górecki - emi, 1996

- giancarlo toniutti, andrew chalk - tahta tarla - pans'urlo panseri, 1993
acquired on a recommendation from john grzinich, and it is visually the most beautiful record i have, and some really stunning sounds as well

- v.a. - graceful degradation: variations - sourdine, 2008
with tracks by steinbrüchel, kenneth kirschner, heribert friedl, john hudak, steve roden, jason kahn and ubeboet. beautiful tracks and packaging with a subtle vellum abstraction, first release on asher's label

images by jon wozencraft

(this list benefits from my new record player, near 3 years without one)