drowned by voices

arthur de eriomém - drowned by voices (japanese traditional music for four
shakuhachi discovered by riley kelly lee and ralph samuelson)

image - tarrl lightowler
title from david toop's sinister resonance

through the alley, behind the market place, this is the way to the past

david lynch - inland empire - 2006 *

classic drone series
sound, sound design, music in film

opening drone, vinyl surface sounds & vinyl section from 1 hour 12 minutes
(w/ minor edits)

polish streets

cast out this wicked dream
(see : thomas köner & jürgen reble tabula smaragdina from kaamos
and work by keith berry)


sound design - david lynch
sound mixer, supervisor, re-recording mixer - dean hurley, ronald eng
music - marek zebrowski, krzysztof penderecki (als jakob erwachte)

related recordings:

jürgen reble & thomas köner - materia obscura sonic acts


- william basinski / works
- keith berry / works
- black swan - in 8 movements - ethereal symphony/experimedia - 2010
- ákos garai - til ødslig horisont - trente oiseaux - 2005
- john hudak / works
- philip jeck / works
- basil kirchin - worlds within worlds - emi columbia - 1971
- basil kirchin - worlds within worlds - island records - 1974
- thomas köner / works
- jean-françois laporte - soundmatters - 23five - 2007
- lustmord / works
- machinefabriek - marijn - lampse - 2006
- stephan mathieu / works
- nurse with wound - salt marie celeste - united dairies - 2003
- nurse with wound - soliloquy for lilith - united dairies - 2003
- dj olive - buoy - room40 - 2004
- dj olive - sleep - room40 - 2006
- dj olive - triage - room40 - 2008
- yui onodera - suisei - and/oar - 2007
- adam pacione / works
- akira rabelais / works
- steve roden / works
- simon scott / works
- colin andrew sheffield / works
- stars of the lid / works

devoted to supreme simplification (or bent, by light)

(best of 2010)
music enjoyed by the staff at the memory offices
(red entries most-listened to)

- chris abrahams - play scar - room40
- alva noto - for 2 - line
- amm - sounding music - matchless recordings
- amm - uncovered correspondence - matchless recordings
- thomas ankersmit - hangar performance - touch radio, recorded by john grzinich
- antony and the johnsons - swanlights - secretly canadian
- antony and the johnsons - thank you for your love - rough trade
(with william basinski)

- j.s. bach / teodoro anzellotti - the goldberg variations - winter & winter
- jan bang - ...and poppies from kandahar - samadhisound
- barn owl - the conjurer - root strata
- barn owl - ancestral star - thrill jockey
- thomas bel - lumières, ombres, voix et visages
- keith berry - the cartesian plane - elevator bath (lp)
- black swan - in 8 movements - ethereal symphony/experimedia
- olivia block & kyle bruckmann - teem - and/oar
- peter brötzmann & paal nilssen-love - woodcuts - smalltown superjazzz
- micael t. bullock and andrew lafkas - ceremonies to breathe upon - winds measure recordings

- john cage / terry jennings / john tilbury / sebastian lexer - lost daylight - another timbre
- john cage - violin & piano (andreas seidel, steffen schleiermacher) - mdg
- jefre cantu-ledesma - love is a stream - type
- celer - dwell in possibility - blackest rainbow
- celer - pockets of wheat - soundscaping records
- celer - weavings of a rapid disenchantment - basses frequences
- andrew chalk - the cable house - faraway press (cd version)
- andrew chalk & daisuke suzuki - in faxfleet clouds uplifted autumn gave passage to kind nature - faraway press (cd)
- andrew chalk - ghost of nakhodka - siren records
- marsfield (andrew chalk) - three sunsets over marsfield (parts one and two) - faraway press (lp)
- andrew chalk (marsfield) - the towering sky - faraway press
- richard chartier - a field for mixing - room40
- richard chartier & asmus tietchens - fabrication 2 - auf abwegen
- joe colley - disasters of self - c.i.p.
- clare cooper/chris abrahams/christof kurzmann/tobias delius/clayton thomas/werner dafeldecker/tony buck - hammeriver - mikroton recordings
- françois couturier - un jour si blanc - ecm
- the cure - disintegration (deluxe edition) universal

- yannick dauby - overflows - sonoris
- deerhunter - halcyon digest - 4ad
- taylor deupree - snow (dusk, dawn) - 12k
- taylor deupree - shoals - 12k (cd + 7")
- dreams of tall buildings feat arve henriksen - drowning the heart sounds - museum

- max eastley - installation recordings - paradigm discs
- eleh - location momentum - touch
- eleh - repose - important
- lawrence english + minamo - a path less traveled - room40
- lawrence english - incongruous harmonies - touch (7")

- roberto fabbriciani / robin hayward - nella basilica - another timbre
- morton feldman - music for piano and strings by morton feldman: for john cage & piano and string quartet (the smith quartet with john tilbury) - matchless
- fennesz / daniell / buck - knoxville - thrill jockey
- food - quiet inlet - ecm
- ben frost - by the throat - bedroom community (lp version)
- the fun years - god was like, no - barge recordings

- jan garbarek / the halliard ensemble - officium ovum - ecm

- tim hecker - apondalifa - room40
- catherine christer hennix - the electric harpsichord - die schachtel
- koen holtkamp - gravity/bees - thrill jockey
- m. holterbach & julia eckhardt - do-undo (in g maze) - helen scarsdale agency

- rafael anton irisarri - the north bend - room40

- philip jeck - an ark for the listener - touch
- rolf julius - music for the ears: small music no. 1 - western vinyl

- thomas köner - nunatak/teimo/permafrost - type (lp reissues)
- lethe - catastrophe point #7 & #8 - invisible birds
- kiyoharu kuwayama & masayoshi urabe - from the abolition port - songs from under the floorboards

- francisco lópez - machines - elevator bath
- lovesliescrushing - crwth (chorus redux) - line

- machinefabriek - daas - cold spring
- aaron martin - worried about the fire - experimedia
- christopher mcfall - the body as i left it - sourdine
- olivier messiaen - visions de l'amen (sarah rothenberg & marilyn nonken) - bridge
- stephan micus - bold as light - ecm
- jon mueller - the whole - type

- toshimaru nakamura - egrets - samadhisound
- joanna newsom - have one on me - drag city
- phill niblock - sound delta - touch
- bj nilsen - the invisible city - touch
- bj nilsen & stillupsteypa - space finale - editions mego (lp)

- organum - sorow - siren records
- ben owen - frying pan light ship, hudson river, new york, ny - winds measure recordings

- charlemagne palestine - strumming music: for piano, harpsichord and string ensemble - sub rosa
- arvo pärt - symphony no. 4 - ecm
- benoît pioulard - lasted - kranky
- piiptsjilling - wurdskrieme - experimedia

- akira rabelais - caduceus - samadhisound
- marc ribot - silent movies - pi recordings
- max richter - infra - fat cat
- steve roden - une pierre, des arcs et des oreilles
- rv paintings - samoa highway - helen scarsdale agency (lp)

- conrad schnitzler - zug - m=minimal
- simon scott - nivalis - secret furry hole
- simon scott - traba - immune (lp)
- seaworthy + matt rösner - two lakes - 12k
- trygve seim / andreas utnem - purcor - ecm
- colin andrew sheffield - slowly - mystery sea
- matt shoemaker - isolated agent / stranding behavior - elevator bath (lp)
- matt shoemaker - soundtrack for dislocation - elevator bath
- richard skelton (clouwbeck) - from which the river rises - sustain-release
- solo andata - ritual - desire path recordings
- kim doo soo - evening river - p.s.f. records
- steinbrüchel - a\b\d\d - binemusic
- supersilent - supersilent 10 - rune grammofon
- supersilent - supersilent 11 - rune grammofon (lp)
- swans - my father will guide me up a rope to the sky - young gods (lp + 2 cd)

- tape & bill wells - fugue - immune
- scott tuma - dandelion - digitalis - 2010 (lp)

- various - shutter island (music from the motion picture) - rhino records
- violence and the sacred performing as viosac - dawning luminosity - vats

- chris watson - a journey south - touch
- stian westerhus - pitch black star spangled - rune grammofon (lp)
- simon whetham - beneath the swinging bridge - mystery sea
- jana winderen - energy field - touch
- mark peter wright - inanimate life (a catalogue) - 3leaves

- yellow swans - going places - type
- yellow swans - being there - type
- neil young - will to love/cortez the killer/dead man theme - reprise records (lp)
- richard youngs - beyond the valley of ultrahits - jagjaguwar lp reissue

- hans zimmer - inception (music from the motion picture) - reprise records/watertower music

(films from 2010)

dvds

- chantal akerman - eclipse series 19: chantal akerman in the seventies - criterion
- michelangelo antonioni - red desert - criterion
- stan brakhage - by brakhage: an anthology, volume two - criterion
- john ford - stagecoach - criterion
- michael haneke - the white ribbon - sony
- julian jarrold, james marsh, anand tucker - the red riding trilogy - ifc
- sidney lumet - the fugitive kind - criterion
- terrence malick - the thin red line - criterion
- leo mccarey - make way for tomorrow - criterion
- steve mcqueen - hunger - criterion
- martin provost - séraphine - music box films
- nicholas ray - bigger than life - criterion
- carol reed - night train to munich - criterion
- götz spielmann - revanche - criterion
- jan troell - everlasting moments - criterion
- wim wenders - paris, texas - criterion
- william wyler/richard boleslawski - hell's heroes / three godfathers - mgm

(a couple more criterions i have to check out still)

films

- cohen brothers - true grit
- tarrl lightowler - i flood myself with light
- christopher nolan - inception
- martin scorsese - shutter island
- michael winterbottom - the killer inside me

books

- joseph beuys - parallel processes - schirmer/mosel
- oliver byrne - the first six books of the elements of euclid with coloured diagrams and symbols - 1847 - taschen
- susan derges - elemental - steidl
- bob dylan - bob dylan in america (sean wilentz) - doubleday
- antonio lópez garcía - antonio lópez garcía: drawings - dap (entry title comes from random sentences found within)
- richard cook & brian morton - the penguin jazz guide: the history of the music in the 1001 best albums - penguin press
- lars müller - windfall light: the visual language of ecm - lars müller publishers
- bram stoker - dracula - everyman's library
- david toop - sinister resonance: the mediumship of the listener - continuum
- robert walser - microscripts - new directions/christine burgin
- h.g. wells - the time machine, the invisible man, the war of the worlds - everyman's library

(will probably add some more stuff in the next week or two)

light in the darkness, or, darkness moves (la ville des anges)

recent films by tarrl lightowler and matthew swiezynski
premiering in los angeles on december 16th 2010, in echo park *.

matthew swiezynski - i can feel the sea falling over my head - 2009-2010
tarrl lightowler - as yet untitled - 2010
matthew swiezynski - it is something invisible - 2009-2010

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"tarrl lightowler and matthew swiezynski are two filmmakers who make attempts at photographing "ingenting", or, what is not visible to the naked eye (nothingness).

with the use of many ingenting devises, they have chanced upon a few moments of visual phenomena, otherworldliness, minimalism and abstractions, in the tradition of the romantics and their observations of Natur.

these devises generally involve some sort of alembic apparatus; something to distill and abstract images and sound, and can include movement, time, layering, beauty, grain, ephemera, etc.

in addition, to find work that is in a tradition that would include: agnes martin, robert walser, mark rothko, morton feldman, melville, victor hugo, henri michaux, michael snow & ernie gehr, j. s. bach, philippe jaccottet, ingmar bergman & gunnar fischer and sven nykvist, bela tarr, eliane radigue, robert musil, marcel duchamp, robert bresson, john ford, thomas köner, terrence malik, andrei tarkovsky, h.p. lovecraft, powell & pressburger to name a few.

and in general: jazz, abstract expressionism, 20th century classical music, french, russian and german poetry & literature, renaissance, netherlandish and dutch painting, early music, birdsong, distant melodies, and drone music."

words by arthur de eriomém

kosmische musik

thinking about various kosmische musik recordings while listening to the wonderful new matt shoemaker album soundtrack for dislocation (elevator bath - 2010) *

- agitation free - malesch - vertigo - 1972

- amon düül II - phallus dei - liberty - 1969
- amon düül II - yeti - liberty - 1970

- ash ra tempel - ash ra tempel - ohr - 1971
- ash ra tempel - schwingungen - ohr - 1972
- ash ra tempel - seven up - ohr die kosmische kuriere - 1973
- ash ra tempel w/ klaus schulze - join inn - ohr - 1973
- ash ra tempel - starring rosi - ohr - 1973
- ash ra tempel (manuel göttsching) - inventions for electric guitar - ohr - 1974
- ash ra tempel - salle wagrem, paris, december 6, 1974

- can - delay...1968 - spoon records - 1968/1981
- can - monster movie - liberty records - 1969
- can - soundtracks - liberty records - 1970
- can - tago mago - united artists - 1971
- can - ogam ogat - 1971 (recorded in 1971 at inner space studios during the tago mago sessions)
- can - ege bamyasi - united artists - 1972
- can - future days - united artists - 1973
- can - paris 1973 - 1973
- can - the peel sessions 73-76 - strange fruit - 1995

- cluster - cluster - philips - 1971
- cluster - cluster ii - brain - 1972
- cluster - zuckerzeit - brain - 1974
- cluster - sowiesoso - sky records - 1976
- cluster & eno - cluster & eno - sky records - 1977
- eno moebius roedelius - after the heat - sky records - 1978

- the cosmic jokers - the cosmic jokers - kosmische musik - 1974

- holger czukay - canaxis - privately released - 1969/ revisited records - 2006

- deutscher wertarbeit - deutscher wertarbeit - sky records - 1981

- dzyan - electric silence - bellaphon records - 1974

- edgar froese - aqua - brain - 1974
- edgar froese - epsilon in malaysian pale - virgin - 1975

- tony conrad with faust - outside the dream syndicate - caroline - 1973/table of the elements - 1993
- faust - faust iv - virgin - 1973

- harmonia - musik von harmonia - brain - 1974
- harmonia - deluxe - brain - 1975
- harmonia 76 w/ brian eno - tracks and traces reissue - rykodisc/gronland - 1976/2009

- kluster (conrad schnitzler , dieter moebius , hans-joachim roedelius) - zwei-osterei - schwann - 1971
- kluster - klopfzeichen - schwann - 1971

- kraftwerk - kraftwerk 1 - philips - 1970
- kraftwerk - live on radio bremen - 1971
- kraftwerk - kraftwerk 2 - philips - 1972
- kraftwerk - ralf und florian - philips - 1973
- kraftwerk - autobahn - philips - 1974
- kraftwerk - forum leverkusen germany 04, 22 1974
- kraftwerk - radio-activity - kling klang/emi/capitol - 1975
- kraftwerk - trans-europe express - kling klang/emi/capitol - 1977
- kraftwerk - the man machine - kling klang/emi/capitol - 1978

- neu! - neu! - brain - 1972
- neu! - neu! 2 - brain - 1973
- neu! - neu! '75 - brain - 1975

- popol vuh - affenstunde - liberty - 1970
- popol vuh - in den gärten pharaos - pilz - 1972
- popol vuh - hosianna mantra - pilz - 1972
- popol vuh - seligpreisung - kosmische musik - 1973
- popol vuh - einsjäger & siebenjäger - kosmische musik - 1974
- popol vuh - das hohelied salomos - united artists - 1975
- popol vuh - aguirre - ohr - 1976
- popol vuh - letzte tage - letzte nächte - united artists - 1976
- popol vuh - herz aus glas - brain - 1977
- popol vuh - nosferatu: the vampyre - egg - 1978
- popol vuh - sei still, wisse ich bin - innovative communication - 1981
- popol vuh - fitzcarraldo - spv recordings - 1982/2005
- popol vuh - perlenklänge - the best of popol vuh - ohr - 1992

- sand - ultrasonic seraphim - united durtro - 1996

- conrad schnitzler - zug (re-release of the self released red cassette from 1973)
- conrad schnitzler - rot - schnitzler private pressing - 1973
- conrad schnitzler - blau - schnitzler private pressing - 1974
- conrad schnitzler - 12 stucke aus dem jahr (gelb) - edition block - 1974/1981
(reissue of the private tape release the black cassette from 1974)
- conrad schnitzler - con - paragon records - 1978
- conrad schnitzler & gregor schnitzler- conrad & sohn - schnitzler private pressing - 1981
- conrad schnitzler & michael otto - micon in italia - adn - 1986

- klaus schulze - irrlicht - ohr - 1972
- klaus schulze - cyborg - ohr - 1973

- tangerine dream - essen grugahalle, germany 29th september 1968
- tangerine dream - electronic meditation (w/ edgar froese, klaus schulze, conrad schnitzler) - ohr - 1970
- tangerine dream - frankfurt goethe university 19 june 1971
- tangerine dream - ossiach world music festival, austria 25th june 1971
- tangerine dream - alpha centauri - ohr - 1971
- tangerine dream - live cologne germany 1972
- tangerine dream - zeit - ohr - 1972
- tangerine dream - klangwald cologne wdr sendesaal germany 25th november 1972
- tangerine dream - atem - ohr - 1973
- tangerine dream - phaedra - virgin records - 1974
- tangerine dream - sheffield city hall, england 29th october 1974
- tangerine dream - reims cathedrale, france 13th december, 1974
- tangerine dream - rubycon - virgin records - 1975

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- matt shoemaker - groundless - trente oiseaux - 2000
- matt shoemaker - warung elusion - trente oiseaux - 2001
- matt shoemaker - forking path navigator - oblast - 2005
- matt shoemaker - spots in the sun - helen scarsdale agency - 2007
- matt shoemaker - mutable depths - ferns recordings - 2008
- matt shoemaker & dave knott (omake & johnson) - headiferous unctabulum - human faculties - 2008
- matt shoemaker - erosion of the analogous eye - helen scarsdale agency - 2009
- matt shoemaker - the sunken plethora consumes all - mystery sea - 2009
- matt shoemaker - wayward set - human faculties - 2009
- matt shoemaker - tropical amnesia one - ferns recordings - 2010
- matt shoemaker - isolated agent / stranding behavior - elevator bath - 2010
- omake & johnson - every room has a grotto - human faculties - 2010
- matt shoemaker - soundtrack for dislocation - elevator bath - 2010

books
- krautrock: cosmic rock and its legacy - black dog publishing - 2009

thanks to colin, matt and ingenting kollektiva for help with the list

pre 2010

(la musique)
- alio die & aglaia - private history of the clouds - infraction
- ambrose field & john potter - being dufay - ecm
- alva noto - xerrox vol.2 - raster-noton
- asher - miniatures - sourdine
- william basinski - 92982 - 2062
- ran blake - driftwoods - tompkins square
- bon iver - blood bank - jagjaguwar
- peter brötzmann/toshinori kondo /massimo pupillo /paal nilssen-love - hairy bones - okka disk
- bill callahan - sometimes i wish we were an eagle - drag city
- evan caminiti - psychic mud chrine - digitalis recordings
- celer - engaged touches - humming conch
- celer - close proximity and the unhindered care-all - sra
- andrew chalk & daisuke suzuki - the shadows go their own way - siren records
- andrew chalk - the cable house - faraway press
- dropp ensemble - safety - either/oar
- bob dylan - together through life - columbia
- elegi - varde - miasmah recordings
- eleh - homage to the sine wave - taiga
- eleh / nana april jun - observations & momentum - touch
- deceh (eleh?) - deceh - important records
- elm - nemcatacoa - digitalis
- lawrence english - a colour for autumn - 12k
- fennesz + sparklehorse - in the fishtank 15 - in the fishtank
- fire - you liked me five minutes ago - rune grammofon
- ben frost - by the throat - bedroom community
- jimmy giuffre - the swamp people with bob brookmeyer & jim hall (newport 1958) - giant steps records
- grizzly bear - veckatimest - warp
- jgrzinich - phase inversion - mystery sea
- hildur gudnadottir - without sinking - touch
- robert haigh - notes and crossings - siren records
- harmonia 76 w/ brian eno - tracks and traces reissue - sony/gronland
- jon hassell - last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street - ecm
- tim hecker - an imaginary country - kranky
- king crimson - in the court of the crimson king: an observation by king crimson - island
steven wilson 5.1 version
- lethe - catastrophe point #5 - intransitive recordings
- stephan mathieu - the key to the kingdom - dekorder
- stephan mathieu & taylor deupree - transcriptions - spekk
- mountains - choral - thrill jockey
- mountains - etching - thrill jockey
- michael northam - suhina - drone records
- phill niblock - touch strings - touch
- nils økland - monograph - ecm
- yui onodera - entropy - trumn
- yui onodera & the beautiful schizophonic - radiance - basses frequences
- adam pacione - still life series - bee eater recordings
- adam pacione - dobranoc - elevator bath
- evan parker - the moment's energy - ecm
- arvo pärt - in principio - ecm
- pillowdiver - sleeping pills - 12k
- plinth - music for smalls lighthouse - durtro jnana
- henry purcell - the complete fantazias (fretwork) - harmonia mundi
- eliane radigue - vice versa, etc - important records
- eliane radigue - triptych - important records
- steve roden - ecstasy shorewed its petals with the full peal of the bells - ferns recordings
- simon scott - navigare - miasmah recordings
- seaworthy - 1897 - 12k
- colin andrew sheffield - signatures + broken light - invisible birds (officially late 2008)
- colin andrew sheffield - for tomorrow - bee eater recordings
- matt shoemaker - erosion of the analogous eye - helen scarsdale agency
- matt shoemaker - the sunken plethora consumes all - mystery sea
- matt shoemaker - wayward set - human faculties
- six organs of admittance - rtz - drag city
- six organs of admittance - luminous night - drag city
- a broken consort - crow autumn part two - sustain-release
- clouwbeck - wolfrahm - shining day
- steven r. smith - cities - immune
- steven r. smith & gareth davis - westering - important records
- solo andata - solo andata - 12k
- spiracle - ananta - the helen scarsdale agency
- sunn o))) - monoliths & dimensions - southern lord
- supersilent - supersilent 9 - rune grammofon
- john surman - brewster's rooster - ecm
- svarte greiner - kappe - type records
- david sylvian - manafon - samadhisound
- tamaru - figure - trumn
- charles tyler - charles tyler ensemble - esp (1966)
- moroslav vitous w/ michael portal - remembering weather report - ecm
- yoshi wada - earth horns with electronic drone - edition omega point
- peter walker - long lost tapes 1970 - tompkins square
- christian wallumrød - fabula suite lugano - ecm
- jozef van wissem - it is all that is made - important
- mark peter wright (hands of sand) - a quiet reverie: an audio exploration of site, solitude, and perception
- peter wright - an angel fell where the kestrels hover - spekk
- robert wyatt - box set - domino
- richard youngs - under stellar stream- jagjaguwar
- townes van zandt - live at the old quarter, houston, texas - fat possum records
- various - open strings: 1920s middle eastern recordings - honest jon's
- kronos quartet - floodplain - nonesuch

(books)
- samuel beckett - the letters of samuel beckett 1929-1940 - cambridge university press
- john cage - zen ox-herding pictures - george braziller
- raymond carver - collected stories - the library of america
- caspar david friedrich - caspar david friedrich: the art of drawing - fundación juan march
- lefcadio hearn - hearn: american writings - the library of america
- friedrich hölderlin - friedrich hölderlin: essays and letters - penguin classics
- athanasius kircher - athanasius kircher's theatre of the world: the life and work of the last man to search for universal knowledge - inner tradition
- heinrich von kleist - selected prose of heinrich von kleist - archipelago books
- gérard de nerval - the salt smugglers - archipelago books
- robert walser - the tanners - new directions

(susan derges photo)

remnants from paradise

music - favourites of 2008

- asher & ubeboet - cell memory - wind measure recordings
- aidan baker - fragile movements in slow motion - universal tongue
- aidan baker - book of nods - beta-lactam ring records
- william basinski - the river - 2062
- william basinski & richard chartier - untitled 1 - 3 - line
- christopher bissonnette - in between words - kranky
- james blackshaw - litany of echoes - tompkins square
- the blithe sons - the great orthochromatic wheel - family vineyard records
- john cage - seven - quartets I-VIII - neos
- celer - nacreous clouds - and/oar
- celer - tropical - mystery sea
- loren chasse & michael northam - the otolith - helen scarsdale agency
- loren chasse - the footpath - naturestrip
- loren chasse (of) - the sun and earth together - ultra hard gel
- loren chasse (of) - rocks will open - digitalis recordings
- yannick dauby & christophe havard & hughes germain
(as °sone) - passerelle - and/oar
- taylor deupree & kenneth kirschner - may - room40
- toumani diabaté - the mandé variations - nonesuch
- the dowland project - romaria - ecm
- werner durand - remnants from paradise - absurd
- max eastly / graham halliwell / evan parker / mark wastell - a life saved by a spider and two doves - another timbre
- lawrence english - kiri no oto - touch
- morton feldman - the viola in my life - ecm
- morton feldman - the late piano works, triadic memories (steffen schleiermacher) - mdg
- fennesz - transition - touch
- fennesz - black sea - touch
- jgrzinich - ferric - taâlem
- vikki jackman - whispering pages - faraway press
- giya kancheli - little imber - ecm
- kenneth kirschner - filaments and voids - 12k
- alexander knaifel - blazhenstva - ecm
- k. leimer - lesser epitomes - palace of lights
- level - opale - spekk
- machinefabriek & matt davies - onkruid - a room forever
- stephan mathieu - radioland - die schachtel
- marc namblard - chants of frozen lakes - kalerne / atelier hui-kan
- dj olive - triage - room40
- adam pacione - with wakened eyes - bee eater recordings
- charlemagne palestine - from etudes to cataclysms for the doppio borgato - sub rosa
- steve peters - chamber music 4: filtered light - dragon's eye recordings
- rameses iii - basillica/origins - important records
- steve roden - vester fields - volume
- steve roden - sunrise - new plastic music
- mathieu ruhlmann & celer - mesoscaphe - spekk
- jordi savall - invocation a la nuit - alia vox
- trygve seim & frode haltli - yeraz - ecm
- colin andrew sheffield - signatures - invisible birds
- scott sherk - icelandic air - wandering ear
- matt shoemaker - mutable depths - ferns recordings
- v. sjöberg new jazz ensemble - do nothing 'til you hear from
me - ideal
- richard skelton - crow autumn - sustain-release
- richard skelton - marking time - preservation
- svarte greiner - til seters - a room forever
- tape - milieu plus - häpna
- tape - opera plus - häpna
- tape - luminarium - häpna
- scott tuma - not for nobody - digitalis
- chris watson - cima verde - fondazione edmund mach, lol productions
- various - a cleansing ascension - elevator bath
- various - fennesz / jeck / matthews - amoroso - touch
- various - solo andata / seaworthy / taylor deupree - live from melbourne - 12k
- various - spire live - fundamentalis - touch
- various - victrola favorites: artifacts from bygone days - dust-to-digital

also very good

- alio die & martina galvagni - eleusian lullaby - projekt
- asher - study for autumn - conv
- asher - intervals - the land of
- j.s. bach - sonata in a-minor, partita in d-minor + barry guy aglais (barry guy & maya homburger) - maya recordings
- celer - i love you so much i can't even title this (the light that never goes out went out) - celer
- celer - discourses of the withered - infraction
- celer - the everything and the nothing - infraction
- andrew chalk & brendan walls (isolde) - all things to fall like marching men - penny poppet
- taylor deupree - northern (remastered) - 12k
- kyle bobby dunn - fragments & compositions of kyle bobby dunn - sedimental
- jim haynes - eraldus / eravaldus - elevator bath
- arve henriksen - cartography - ecm
- koen holtkamp - make haste/free birds - a room forever
- jóhann jóhannsson - fordlandia - 4ad
- arsenije jovanović - galiola - works for radio, 1967 - 2000 - fo a rm projects, and/oar, alluvial recordings
- garth knox, agnes vesterman - d'amore - ecm
- jasper leyland - carbon series: volume 5 - 12x50
- annea lockwood - a sound map of the danube - lovely music, ltd.
- steve peters - the webster cycles - cold blue music
- benoit pioulard - temper - kranky
- max richter - 24 postcards in full colour - 130701
- sigur rós - með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust - xl recordings
- mirko uhlig - the nightmiller - mystery sea
- wolfgang voigt - gas - raster-noton
- various - graceful degradation: variations - sourdine

(compiled with young gossamer)

indian melancholia & a knock on the window pane

ali akbar khan

(melancholia since 01/2008)


(music):

-sundaram balachander: magic music of india, 1963 (indian veena player)
-sundaram balachander: sounds of the veena, 1967
-sundaram balachander: man from madras, 1968
-pandit vishwa mohan bhatt: saltanah (with simon shaheen), 1997 (hindustani guitar player [guitar is modified with the addition of several drone strings and eight sympathetic strings and called a mohan veena], disciple of ravi shankar)
-pandit vishwa mohan bhatt: saradamani, 1996
-pandit vishwa mohan bhatt & ry cooder: a meeting by the river, 1993
-hariprasad chaurasia: rag bhimpalasi, 1991
-ali akbar khan: the eighty minute raga, 1969 (rag kanara prakaar is a late evening raga, usually performed between 9 pm and midnight)
-ali akbar khan & dr. l. subramaniam: ethereal duet, 1976 (violin & sarod)
-ali akbar khan: peerless, 2002 (ali akbar khan [sarod] & swapan chaudhry [tabla], recorded in switzerland in the 1990's)
-budhaditya mukherjee: budhaditya mukherjee, 1980
-ravi shankar: in london, 1964
-kunnakkudi vaidhyanathan: violin, 1977 (carnatic)
-tanjore viswanathan: south indian flute, 1968 (carnatic)
-the anthology of indian music volume one, 3lp box set, 1967 (includes ravi shankar / alla rakha, ali akbar khan / shankar ghosh, balachander / sivaram, ramani / ramabhadran, janardan abhyankar / arjun shejwal, alla rakha / a. das gupta, kanai dutta and ravi shankar)

(thanks to this great site for posting many of these recordings)

(plus)

-autistic daughters: uneasy flowers, 2008 (trio of dean roberts [guitar, vocals], martin brandlmayr [percussion, computer] and werner dafeldecker [guitar, bass])
-tony bennett: the movie song album, 1966 (includes the lovely the trolley song from meet me in st. louis)
-keith berry vs. fessenden: bleu: résultat, 2006 (includes floating weeds [for yasujiro ozu])
-fourm remixes keith berry, 2007 (quite beautiful little 3" cd)
-anouar brahem: vague, 2003 (ecm french release)
-anouar brahem: conte de l'incroyable amour, 1992
-andrew chalk: time of hayfield, 2007 (recorded in 2005)
-loren chasse: green laughter, 2003 (jewelled antler library vol. 1, documents the reverie of frogs, birds, cicadas and locusts)
-of (loren chasse): the buried stream, 2005 (jewelled antler)
-yannick dauby: la rivière penchée, 2003 (compositions made up of recordings taken at the river's banks, the manipulation of found objects, and some electronic elements)
-yannick dauby: alisen, 2004 (mini cloud of statics disc)
-ostad elahi: cascade - l'art du luth tambur (3 discs from the iranian tanbour player)
-ostad elahi: celestial harmonies
-ostad elahi: mystical orison
-morton feldman: triadic memories, 2004 (played by marilyn nonken)
-morton feldman: last pieces, 2001 (played by stephane ginsburgh)
-alastair galbraith & matt de gennaro: wires music, 1998 (live wire music recorded at the chip shop)
-henryk mikołaj górecki: symphony no. 3, 1994 (philips version with warsaw philharmonic)
-jonny greenwood: there will be blood, 2007 (threnody to the victims of hiroshima tren ofiarom hiroszimy, krzysztof penderecki 1960 in the wild west)
-john hudak: brooklyn bridge, 1998 (stretched, magnified timbres and textures of the bridge)
-jason kahn: plurabelle, 2001 (bell tone related)
-komitas: divine liturgy, 2006 (komitas’ divine liturgy features a quartet of duduks [winds of passion])
-gregg kowalsky: tendrils in vigne, 2007 (music for an ensemble of 25 people)
-bj nilsen & z'ev: 22' 22", 2007 (prefer nilsen's others)
-adam pacione: heat, 2004 (stunning)
-adam pacione: from stills to motion, 2007 (on virb.com thanks to d. granahan, lovely melodies)
-radiohead: jigsaw falling into place (acoustic songs including videotape & last flowers)
-giacinto scelsi: suono rotondo, 2005 (with stefano scodanibbio, michael kiedaisch, michael svoboda)
-seaworthy: map in hand, 2006 (music to explore melodic and experimental approaches to the construction of minimalist sound scapes from looped guitar, warm drones, piano, electronics and field recordings)
-steven r. smith: gehenna belvedere, 1996
-steven r. smith: from ashes come, 1999
-steven r. smith: slate branches, 2000
-steven r. smith: kohl, 2002/2005
-steven r. smith: antimony, 2004
-hala strana: karst, 2003 (jewelled antler library, includes musical contributions from glenn donaldson and loren chasse)
-thuja: fable, 2003 (jewelled antler library, with loren chasse, rob reger, steven r. smith, and glenn donaldson)
-stars of the lid: music for nitrous oxide, 1995
-stars of the lid: gravitational pull vs. the desire for an aquatic life, 1996
-stars of the lid: the ballasted orchestra, 1997
-stars of the lid: per aspera ad astra, 1998
-stars of the lid: avec laudenum, 1999


(films, mostly old favourites):

-woody allen: broadway danny rose, 1984
-woody allen: crimes and misdemeanors, 1989
-p.t. anderson: there will be blood, 2007
-kenneth anger: rabbit's moon, 1979 (later version, a gift for one of brakhage's children)
-michelangelo antonioni: the passenger, 1975 (a.k.a. professione: reporter)
-ingmar bergman: sawdust and tinsel, 1953
-frank capra: arsenic and old lace, 1944
-william friedkin: the exorcist, 1973 (the power of christ compels you)
-tony gilroy: michael clayton, 2007
-john grzinich: mimema, 2008 (in progress)
-alexander hall: here comes mr. jordan, 1941
-david hand walt disney: bambi, 1942
-wojciech has: the saragossa manuscript, 1965 (more useless than beckett's 3-legged giraffe)
-howard hawks: rio bravo, 1958
-alfred hitchcock: the lady vanishes, 1938
-alfred hitchcock: shadow of a doubt, 1943
-alfred hitchcock: lifeboat, 1944
-alfred hitchcock: rebecca, 1940
-john huston: the treasure of the sierra madre, 1948
-john huston: under the volcano, 1984
-norman jewison: in the heat of the night, 1967 (new dvd)
-krzysztof kieslowski: trois couleurs: rouge, 1984
-henry koster: no highway in the sky, 1951 (jimmy stewart and marlene dietrich)
-postwar kurosawa, 1946-1955 (criterion/eclipse set, with no regrets for our youth, one wonderful sunday, scandal, the idiot, i live in fear)
-james mangold: 3:10 to yuma, 2007 (stick with the original)
-oscar michaeux: body and soul, 1925
-vincente minnelli: meet me in st. louis, 1944 (tony bennet influence)
-f.w. murnau: sunrise, 1927
-roy william neill: sherlock holmes, in pursuit to algiers, 1945
-leighton pierce: 37th & lex, 2002
-leighton pierce: a private happiness, 2003
-leighton pierce: viscera, 2004
-leighton pierce: hammock, 2005
-leighton pierce: mr person in the water, 2006
-herbert ross: play it again sam, 1972
-erik skjoldbjærg: insomnia, 1997
-františek vláčil: valley of the bees, 1967
-wim wenders: paris, texas, 1984


(books):

-joseph conrad: youth, 1902
-alain fournier: le grand meaulnes, 1913
-emma kunz - artist, researcher, natural healer, 1998 (emma kunz zentrum, thanks to mr. roden's recommendation)
-b. traven: the treasure of the sierra madre, 1927

a sketch by komitas: and this is me...