monochrome music

listening, new and not new - studies in abstraction

new -

- aix em klemm - s/t - kranky - 2000
collaboration between bobby donne of labradford and adam wiltzie of stars of the lid
- asher - instability - leerraum [ ] - 2008
....leaves blowing through a snowy landscape, not quite visible....
- johann sebastian bach / john holloway - the sonatas and partitas for violin solo - ecm - 2006
- aidan baker - book of nods - beta-lactam ring records - 2008
- anouar brahem & jan garbarek - madar - ecm - 1992/2000
- john cage / the barton workshop - the fives (x) - megadisc - 2002
- john cage / the barton workshop - eight-two-one4 - megadisc - 2005
- john cage - seven - quartets I-VIII - neos - 2008
- celer - nacreous clouds - and/oar - 2008
"nacreous clouds", are found in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000–25,000 metres (50,000–80,000 ft). due to their high altitude and the curvature of the surface of the earth, these clouds will receive sunlight from below the horizon and reflect it to the ground, shining brightly well before dawn or after dusk"
- celer - discourses of the withered - infraction - 2008
- celer - the everything and the nothing - infraction - 2008
- don cherry - where is brooklyn? - blue note - 1966
with henry grimes, edward blackwell, and pharoah sanders
- don cherry - complete communion - blue note - 1966
with henry grimes, edward blackwell, and leandro 'gato' barbieri
- ry cooder & ronu majumdar - bansuri & john hassell - hollow bamboo - water lily acoustics - 2000
- marilyn crispell - storyteller - ecm - 2004
with mark helias and paul motian
- marilyn crispell - vignettes - ecm - 2008
- holger czukay & rolf cammers - canaxis - spoon records - 1982
recorded in 1968 and released originally in 1969
"a new landscape is painted out of darkness by progressive strokes of the dawn"
- miles davis - miles in tokyo - sony - recorded 1964
- miles davis & john coltrane - miles davis & john coltrane - the complete columbia recordings 1955-1961 - sony - 2000
includes albums circle in the round, 'round about midnight, milestones, kind of blue, someday my prince will come, miles & monk at newport, and jazz at the plaza
- thomas demenga, thomas larcher, teodoro anzellotti - chonguri - ecm - 2006
- toumani diabaté - kaira - hannibal - 1988
debut recording - improvisations on the kora, a 21-stringed west african harp
- toumani diabaté & ali farka toure - in the heart of the moon - nonesuch - 2005
- toumani diabaté - the mandé variations - nonesuch - 2008
- the dowland project - romaria - ecm - 2008
- michael jon fink - i hear it in the rain - cold blue music - 2001
- michael jon fink - i hear it in the rain live at redcat (radio)
- vincent gallo - buffalo 66 - will records - 1998
- vincent gallo - recordings of music for film - warp records/beat records - 2002
- jan garbarek - dis - ecm - 1976/2000
- jan garbarek & the hilliard ensemble - officium - ecm - 1994
- djivan gasparyan - i will not be sad in this world - all saints 1993/2005
- vittorio ghielmi - short tales for a viol - winter & winter - 2004
- bernhard günter - lone looper - klangstaub - ?
- françoise hardy - françoise hardy - vol. 1 (1962-1968) - bmg - 2000
- jon hassell - aka darbari java (magic realism) - editions eg - 1983
jon hassell—trumpet, keyboards, treatments, abdou mboup—drums, daniel lanois—treatments
- andrew hill - judgement - bluenote - 1964
- andrew hill - andrew! - bluenote - 1964
- andrew hill - pax - bluenote - 1965 (released 1975)
- andrew hill - change - bluenote - 1966
- andrew hill - mosaic (ms-016) - 2005
blue note sessions (mostly unreleased) recorded between 1967 and '70, with charles tolliver, bennie maupin, ron carter, cecil mcbee, sam rivers and others
- vikki jackman - whispering pages - faraway press - 2008
- garth knox, agnes vesterman - d'amore - ecm - 2008
garth knox, from the arditti string quartet
- hamre knut & steve tibbets - a - hannibal - 1999
- kraftwerk - kraftwerk 1 - crown - 1971/2006
- kraftwerk - kraftwerk 2 - crown - 1972/2006
- david lang - elevated - cantaloupe - 2005
- sinikka langeland - starflowers - ecm - 2007
with arve henriksen
- barbara lewis - hello stranger - the best of barbara lewis - rhino - 1994
- charles lloyd - the water is wide - ecm - 2000
with billy higgins, etc., not without interest
- pablo márquez - luys de narvaez: musica del delphin - ecm - 2007
guitar playing of pieces from one of the great sixteenth-century masters of spanish music
- dean martin - dino italian love songs - capital - 1962
- christopher mcfall - the city of almost - sourdine - 2008
- jason kahn & asher - vista - and/oar - 2008
- basil kirchin - charcoal sketches. states of mind - trunk records - 2004
includes evan parker
- the necks - sex - fish of milk - 1989
- the necks - chemist - fish of milk/rer megacorp - 2006
- the necks - townsville - phantom sound & vision - 2007
- ernst reijseger - i love you so much it hurts - winter & winter - 2002
- ernst reijseger - requiem for a dying planet, sounds for two films by werner herzog: the wild blue yonder - the white diamond - winter & winter - 2006
- max richter - 24 postcards in full colour - fat cat - 2008
- sam rivers - the complete blue note sam rivers sessions - mosaic - 1996
contains the albums fuschia swing song, contours, a new conception, and dimensions & extensions
- jordi savall - invocation a la nuit - aliavox - 2008
- janek schaefer - extended play [triptych for the child survivors of war and conflict] - line - 2008
- v. sjöberg new jazz ensemble - do nothing 'til you hear from me - ideal - 2008
- stagecoach soundtrack - mark56 records - 1977
- bobo stenson & jan garbarek - witchi-tai-to - ecm - 1974/2000
- bobo stenson - reflections - ecm - 1993/2000
- bobo stenson - war orphans - ecm - 1998
- bobo stenson - serenity - ecm - 2000
- talk talk - spirit of eden - capitol - 1998
- wolfgang voigt - gas - raster-noton - 2008
- anthony williams - life time - bluenote - 1964
- anthony williams - spring - bluenote - 1965
- buster williams - pinnacle - muse - 1975
classic from the american jazz bassist
- larry young - unity - blue note - 1965
with larry young (organ), elvin jones, woody shaw and joe henderson
- larry young - lawrence of newark - castle music - 1973/2002
- joe zawinul - zawinul - atlantic - 1971
with joe zawinul (piano), herbie hancock, woody shaw and others
- give me love: songs of the brokenhearted - baghdad, 1925-1929 - honest jon's - 2008 (via n. granahan)
- a cleansing ascension - elevator bath - 2008
includes some stunning tracks, including keith berry, adam pacione, colin andrew sheffield, matt shoemaker and others, a truly great compilation disc *
- may 6, 2001 - and/oar - 2006
based on recordings by kenneth kirschner


not new -

- alio die & saffron wood - corteggiando le messi - hic sunt leones - 2006
- arild andersen group - electra - ecm - 2005
with arve henriksen
- bjork - volta - one little indian - 2007
with toumani diabaté and antony
- anouar brahem - conte de l'incroyable amour - ecm - 1992
- john cage / teodoro anzellotti - 3 compositions by john cage - winter & winter - 2003
- john cage - early music - edition wandelweiser - 2007
- michael cashmore - sleep england - durtro / jnana - 2006
- ornette coleman - chappaqua suite - sony - 1965
- ry cooder, vishwa mohan bhatt - a meeting by the river - water lily acoustics - 1993
- françois couturier - nostalghia - song for tarkovsky - ecm - 2006
- cage part scelsi - annum per annum - new albion records - 1995
- lawrence english - kiri no oto - touch - 2008
- brian eno - apollo and atmospheres - e.g. records - 1983
- ákos garai - til ødslig horisont - trente oiseaux - 2005
- djivan gasparyan - ask me no questions - trad. crossroads - 1994
- bernhard günter - time, dreaming itself - trente oiseaux - 2000
"time, and the notion of slowness"
- bernhard günter - crossing the river (night music) - trente oiseaux - 2001
"ceci est la couleur de mes rèves" juan miró
- gurdjieff - gurdjieff, tsabropoulos: chants, hymns and dances - ecm - 2004
- frode haltli - passing images - ecm - 2007
with arve henriksen
- freddie hubbard - blue spirits - blue note - 1965
- koen holtkamp - make haste - a room forever - 2008
- jason lescalleet - the pilgrim - glistening examples - 2006
- booker little - out front - candid - 1961
with eric dolphy, julian priester, ron carter and max roach, etc.
- rolf lislevand - nuove musiche - ecm - 2006
- jimmy lyons - other afternoons - byg records - 1970
- jimmy lyons - jimmy lyons box set - ayler records - 2003
- francisco lópez - addy en el país de las frutas y los chunches - alien8 recordings - 2003
- stephan mathieu - frequencylib - ritornell - 2001
track - gutnacht
- stephan mathieu - the sad mac - headz - 2004
- stephan mathieu and janek schaefer - hidden name - cronica - 2006
- charles mingus - tijuana moods - rca - 1957
- steve peters - here•ings: a sonic geohistory - la alameda press, pianíssimo - 2002
has a permanent place in the 5-disc cd player
- akira rabelais - spellewauerynsherde - samadhisound - 2004
- ernst reijseger - colla parte - winter & winter - 1997
- the ronettes - the best of the ronettes - abkco - 1992
- joel ryan - on air - psi - 2005
variations on the music of evan parker
- jordi savall - les voix humaines - aliavox - 1998
- giacinto scelsi - natura renovatur - ecm - 2006
- stefano scodanibbio - voyage that never ends - new albion - 1998
- stefano scodanibbio - geografia amorosa - col legno - 2000
- archie shepp - fire music - impulse - 1965
- wayne shorter - speak no evil - blue note - 1964
- supersilent - supersilent 6 - rune grammofon - 2006
- valentin silvestrov arvo pärt galina ustvolskaya - misterioso - ecm - 2006
- tape - rideau - häpna - 2005
- (the user) - abandon - asphodel - 2003
a composition written for the abandoned silo #5 grain elevator in the port of montréal's quai des ecluses