VARIATIONS FOR WINDS, STRINGS AND KEYBOARDS (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra) + MUSIC FOR MALLET INSTRUMENTS, VOICES AND ORGAN (Performer: Steve Reich and Musicians) + SIX PIANOS (Performer: Steve Reich and Musicians)
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028947159124 | DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
"I am fascinated by a lot of socalled sacred places in the world, in ethnic cultures, but also in our own cities. I try to recall the atmosphere of such a place, the quietness, the subtle sounds, or simply what's happening. I started with places in Ghent, where I live, ...
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KYE31/PP10 | KYE PENULTIMATE PRESS
"Peter Rehberg's pioneering experimental electronic record receives its first-ever complete vinyl pressing, featuring expanded content and exclusive liner notes. Editions Mego release the highly anticipated vinyl reissue of Get Out, the groundbreaking second album by ...
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EMEGO029V | EDITIONS MEGO
"A companion EP to the recent double LP retrospective This Song Was Borne, Flight Of The Light Air Force features three exclusive tracks by cult favorite outsider-folk duo Fraser & DeBolt. The majestic title track is an outtake from their second Columbia LP With ...
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ROAR44 | ROARATORIO
"In an everlasting process that continuously repositions and reevaluates infinity as a consciously unachievable but ultimately rewarding goal since the early 90's, David Maranha's music has been riding that arc with ferocity and aplomb. A unique vision that has been ...
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ROAR43 | ROARATORIO
"One might think, with a discography as extensive as the one Sun Ra boasts, that the scope of his work has been fully apprehended by this point, but The Intergalactic Thing demonstrates its seemingly bottomless depths. This is not a complete surprise: anyone who saw Ra ...
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ROAR40 | ROARATORIO
"Allan Fraser & Daisy DeBolt met in the summer of 1969. They had both been working individually on the coffeehouse circuit in their native Canada; over the next five years, as the duo of Fraser & DeBolt, they created a sublime body of work that still sounds remarkably ...
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ROAR39 | ROARATORIO
"The Cleveland Wrecking Company were formed in San Francisco in 1965. Their members came from jazz, flamenco and R&B backgrounds, but together their psychedelic brew verged on Blue Cheer heaviness. As perennial local favorites, they gigged at every stage in the area. ...
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ROAR41 | ROARATORIO
"For decades, Crystal Syphon were, at most, a footnote in the music history books: a name on posters from the psychedelic ballroom days, and a fond memory to those who'd seen the Merced, California band perform on the west coast circuit in the late 1960s. That changed ...
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ROAR37 | ROARATORIO
"To call Rodd Keith the king of the song-poems (also known as the "send us your lyrics" quick buck-demo mill) is damning with faint praise: no one else in that shady backwater of the music industry possessed an array of talents as distinctively individual as his. As ...
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ROAR31 | ROARATORIO
"When psycho-spatial composer Nelson Gastaldi passed away in 2009 at the age of 77, he left behind a unique musical legacy that is only now beginning to be unveiled. A self-described "musical nihilist with noble and mystic origins" (as well as an accomplished visual ...
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ROAR24 | ROARATORIO
"My Pipe Yellow Dream is the second Roaratorio anthology of the highlights of Rodd Keith's work. Compiling fifteen previously unreissued songs from 1966 through his death in 1974 - including a never-before-heard cover of "Choo Choo Train" - My Pipe Yellow Dream ...
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ROAR23 | ROARATORIO
"When one thinks of the musical centers of New Zealand, the city of Tauranga doesn't have as celebrated a history as Dunedin, Auckland or Christchurch. Which is apt, in a way, as the artist known to us only as Rotate The Completor makes music that sounds unconnected to ...
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ROAR20 | ROARATORIO
"Formed in Minneapolis in 2004, Knife World have converted many unwary bystanders into true believers through their frenetic gigs in underground venues and the occasional club. The band worships at the Riff Temple, swapping pomposity for a mischievous intelligence. Jon ...
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ROAR13 | ROARATORIO
"Paul Metzger continues to pile up the plaudits from critics and peers alike for his virtuosic string-slinging, gaining notice through his CD on Chairkickers and his split LP with Ben Chasny and Chris Corsano on Roaratorio. Metzger's modified banjo is tricked out with ...
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ROAR14 | ROARATORIO
""All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."_Pascal - Graham Lambkin (of Shadow Ring fame) returns with a long awaited epic double LP, Aphorisms, his first major solo outing since Community (Kye, 2016). Recorded mostly during ...
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BF-060 | BLANK FORMS EDITIONS
