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An Ambient Milestone – The First-Ever Vinyl Issue of Oliveros' Deep Listening
Exciting news to start off the new year! A classic recording of the ambient genre has been issued for the very first time on vinyl by Important Records. The Massachusetts-based label has issued special releases from artists including Daniel Johnston, Boris, Coil, and Japanese noise musician Merzbow and specializes in indie rock, electronica and avant-garde music.
The label's official website posted the news in early December and quickly sold out of the gold edition on the evening of Wednesday, December 18th. The official release date is January 31, 2020 but pre-ordered copies shipped January 6th to arrive well in advance of the official date. (This copy arrived Friday, January 10th.) From their announcement: Quote:
https://i.imgur.com/uE1LNkpl.jpg A quick summary for those not already familiar with the band - Deep Listening Band was founded in 1988 by Pauline Oliveros (accordion, "expanded instrument system", composition), Stuart Dempster (trombone, didjeridu, composition) and Panaiotis (vocals, electronics, composer). Oliveros was a central figure in the development of experimental and post-war electronic art music and a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center. Wikipedia notes that: Quote:
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Enography: The Collected Writings of (and about) Brian Eno
I’ve been reading texts on artist, producer, and self-proclaimed “non-musician” Brian Eno for years, and thought it might be a good idea to start tracking all of the books examining his work in my library. I extracted a list of all Eno-related texts from moredarkthanshark.org and added a few other rare titles from my own archive. Referencing data from my Goodreads account I built a spreadsheet to catalog which texts I’ve read, which I have in physical form, as well as the ones I have as ebooks. I then used an aggregate book search engine to secure physical copies of most of the texts I was missing to build as complete a library as I was able. There are three titles I’ve yet to claim, but they command higher prices than I was ready to import to the States for this first stage of the project.
Pictured below are thirteen of my favorite titles on the subjects of Eno’s work, and ambient and generative music in general. There was a week delay in the project after book #13 was lost in the post and I had to order another copy, but at last I have them all. I was particularly excited to secure a copy of Sound Unbound published by MIT Press, which compiles essays on sample/mashup/remix culture collected by Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), and which features a Forward by Cory Doctorow, my favorite essayist on the subjects of digital rights activism and copyleftism. And like the Moondog book I recently ordered, it is packaged with a companion compact disc of the works discussed. Pictured are the following: Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports by John T. Lysaker Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music by Christoph Cox Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds by David Toop A Year With Swollen Appendices by Brian Eno Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond by Michael Nyman Brian Eno: His Music And The Vertical Color Of Sound by Eric Tamm The Ambient Century by Mark Prendergast Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture by Paul D. Miller On Some Faraway Beach: The Life And Times Of Brian Eno by David Sheppard Another Green World (33 1/3 Series) by Geeta Dayal Brian Eno: Visual Music by Christopher Scoates [Brian Eno: Oblique Music by Sean Albiez Music For Installations (companion book to the ltd ed. 2018 9LP vinyl box set) by Brian Eno as well as the official Oblique Strategies deck Eno produced with artist, Peter Schmidt. Also read but not pictured: Music Beyond Airports - Appraising Ambient Music by Monty Adkins I really look forward to diving into the yet-unread titles from this indispensable collection. These books will be wonderful company through the chills of winter and shall serve as an intellectually stimulating start to 2020! https://i.imgur.com/Iw7oU6u.jpg |
Volume Leveling Server Project a Success!
I'm pleased to share my success with a project I first began in June of 2019 but had shelved until today! I'd constructed an ambient playlist on my server of ~130,000 tracks for background listening which I enjoy for an average of 19 hours each day while I work and while I sleep. Unfortunately I found that many tracks were mastered with considerable differences in signal processing / dynamic range compression / equalization. The result was that some albums had a perceived loudness far greater than others, which disturbed my concentration and my rest.
Thankfully, a bit of research revealed that I was not alone with this concern, and that digital audio engineers addressed the issue by incorporating a feature into the ID3v2 standard outlined by hydrogenaudio as the "replaygain 1.0 specification." Most digital music library software applications feature a replaygain function, permitting the user to apply, automatically or manually, gain adjustment values stored in the metadata of the music file to nudge the volume up or down as required, and my Linux desktop audio software was among them. Automatic loudness measurement, (the formula for which is available on the hydrogenaudio wiki), can be applied to selected tracks individually, or to the loudness of an overall album. The album option, hydrogenaudio notes, "leave(s) the intentional loudness differences between tracks in place, yet still correct for unmusical and annoying loudness differences between albums." The challenge was to find a mobile media server client which retained and interpreted the replaygain values during transcoding. I experimented with various mobile applications to find one which natively supported both gapless playback and replaygain. Researching forum discussions on the subject lead me to an independent fork of my preferred media server application available for Android. The project was a success! After batch processing the replaygain values for the ambient segment of my library, the adjustments I applied to the track metadata were successfully interpreted and rendered during playback in the mobile application! This small victory will have a profound impact on my daily and nightly listening sessions. I'm so glad I kept my notes and revisited the project! https://i.imgur.com/iYeURyUl.jpg |
This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory
Note: While the majority of my writings showcase musical works, I occasionally divert to touch upon other forms of media which are important to me and which strike me as culturally relevant. This was the case with Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil. This afternoon I want to share another new work, a web miniseries whose final episode has just been published.
My favorite independent documentary filmmaker, Kirby Ferguson has just completed production of his follow-up to the enormously satisfying, Everything Is a Remix web series, (which I cannot recommend enough!), with his informative and well-paced new venture, This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory. From religion and the natural philosophy of the ancient Greeks to the Middle Ages, colonial America, on to the Enlightenment and beyond, the early episodes explore mathematical and technological innovations like calculus and the printing press and their profound impact on human thoughts and perceptions. Ferguson outlines the search for patterns in the animal kingdom and in the society of man, and the impact of media and pop culture in all its forms, from political ideologies to the birth of conspiracy theorism. Episode four offers the impacts of the Kennedy assassination and The Warren Report, as well as Watergate, MK-Ultra, and other events on the public’s formulation of conspiracy theories. Episode five touches upon Roswell, the moon landing, and other cultural phenomena which further fueled the notion of conspiracies. Ferguson progresses chronologically to explore the subcultures of emerging talk radio and VHS communication, and then on to the impacts of 911 and the world-wide web, InfoWars, and flat Earthers, and debunks many of the misconceptions which were the fundamentals of major JFK assassination conspiracies. He examines how WMDs, the US economic bail-out, and the Trump era perpetuated the psychological appeal of conspiracy theorism for the masses. The final two episodes, parts six and seven explain how the game of Life demonstrates the unpredictability of complex systems like societies and economies and how complexity can emerge from simple rules. Self-organizing simple systems lead to emergence, as exhibited by ant colonies, beehives, and the neurons in the human brain. The final episode expounds the powerful impact of emergence and explains that we can introduce simple rules in our own smaller systems to yield positive outcomes through emergence. But Ferguson also cautions us about the potential large-scale and unforeseen negative forces of emergence, such as climate change, economic catastrophe, and pandemics. He professes that it is our responsibility to remain skeptical of ourselves and of our misconceptions, (quoting American physicist Richard Feynman), and to foster positive emergence from the bottom up rather than projecting our struggles as being the malicious intent of an external enemy from above or of a force otherwise beyond our influence. Ferguson explains the error of viewing complex living systems through the lens of the mechanical paradigm as was appropriate in Newton’s age and instead suggests that we need a new perspective for the speed and complexity of non-”clock-like” living systems - a network paradigm to perceive society. This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory is an engaging examination of the history and origins of conspiratorial thought. Highly recommended for those who enjoyed Everything Is a Remix or for anyone who embraces skepticism and rationalism. https://i.imgur.com/7QglYmHl.png |
40 Years of Underworld - The Innerspace Collection
Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a tremendous fan of the electronic duo Underworld.
At age 15, their album Dubnobasswithmyheadman was my very first exposure to the world beyond Top 40 radio pop, and its award-winning typographical packaging created by the band’s critically acclaimed Tomato design collective directly inspired my pursuit of a design degree and an 18-year career in the field. Checking my latest stats, my Underworld collection now comprises 77 physical releases and artifacts, memorabilia, subway posters, books, prints, magazine articles, DVDs, VHS tapes, etc, as well as over 600 digital albums, EPs, mixes, concerts, and other materials - over 8100 tracks including concert videos. With new material being released every week, they're showing no sign of slowing down, and they continue to expand my scope of musical appreciation with each new release. Here is the physical portion of my collection to date. (For scale, the green print at the center is a subway poster from the UK measuring five feet in height.) https://i.imgur.com/Oaq4C2Ih.jpg Below is an itemized inventory of the physical collection. The 8100-track digital library is too large to post here but is itemized in the Innerspace Labs Workbook previously published in this journal. Artist - Title - Format Screen Gemz - Teenage Teenage b/w I Just Can't Stand Cars 7" single (sleeve reproduction) - 7", Single Freur - Matters Of The Heart - 7", Single Freur - Get Us Out Of Here - LP, Album Freur - Runaway (Dun Difrunt) - 12" Freur - Look In The Back For Answers - 12" Freur - Doot Doot - CD Freur - Doot-Doot - 7", Pic Freur - Doot-Doot - 12" Freur - Doot-Doot - 12" Freur - Doot-Doot - LP, Album Underworld - Going Overground Melody Maker Magazine January 22, 1994 - Magazine Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future - LP, Album Underworld - Spikee / Dogman Go Woof - 12", Single Underworld - Beaucoup Fish - 2xLP, Album Underworld - A Hundred Days Off - 2xLP, Album Underworld - A Hundred Days Off - 2xLP, Album Underworld - Born Slippy - 12", Single Underworld - Dark & Long - 12", RE Underworld - Two Months Off - 12" Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants - 2xLP, Album Underworld - Rez / Cowgirl - 12" Underworld - Stand Up - 12", Maxi Underworld - Glory! Glory! - 12", Single Underworld - Underneath The Radar - Cassette Underworld - Underneath The Radar - 7", Single Underworld - Change The Weather - LP, Album Underworld - Long Slow Slippy / Eventually But - 12", Ltd, S/Edition Underworld - Barking - 2xLP, Album Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman - 5CD Box Set Underworld - Underneath The Radar - LP, Album Underworld - Underneath The Radar - LP, Album Underworld - Cowgirl / Rez - 12", Ltd, Whi Underworld - Pearl's Girl - 12" Underworld - Jumbo - 12", Single Darren Emerson - Global Underground 020: Singapore - 2CD Darren Emerson & Tim Deluxe - Underwater, Episode 1 - 2CD Underworld - Videos 1993-97 Footwear Repairs By Craftsmen At Competitive Prices - VHS Underworld - tomato: onyx pearls - DVD Underworld - Underworld Live - Everything Everything - DVD Underworld - Barking (Super Deluxe Edition 2CD+DVD+book+autographed print) - 2CD+DVD Box Set Underworld - 1992-2002 - 2CD Underworld - Born Slippy - CD Underworld - Change the Weather - CD Underworld - Dinosaur Adventure 3D (US) - CD Underworld - Dinosaur Adventure 3D (JAPAN) - CD Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman - CD Underworld - A Hundred Days Off - CD Underworld - King of Snake - CD Underworld - Pearl's Girl - CD Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants - CD Underworld - Underneath the Radar - CD Underworld - Underworld Singles Box Set - 3CD Box Set Underworld - Limited Edition Barking Art Print (Hand numbered #64/650) - Art Print Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman A2 sized Promo Poster - Poster Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman Concert Tour Memorabilia Keyring - Keyring Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman T-Shirt (unofficial) - T-Shirt Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman Coffee Mug (unofficial) - Coffee Mug Underworld - Dubnoboasswithmyheadman Custom Chromebook Skin and Keyboard Inlay - Laptop Skin (Custom) Underworld - Everything Everything 150cm x 100cm UK Subway Poster - Poster Underworld - Underworld Press Photo - Photo Underworld - Rowla/Juanita - 12" Underworld - Oblivion With Bells - 2xLP, Album Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman - 2LP, Album Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants Remastered Super Deluxe Edition - 4CD Box Set Underworld - Beaucoup Fish Remastered Super Deluxe Edition - 4CD Box Set Underworld and Iggy Pop - Teatime Dub Encounters - LP, EP, Limited Edition, Clear Underworld - Drift Series 1 - 7CD+Blu-Ray DVD Box Set Tomato - mmm.. skyscraper i love you: A Typographical Journal of New York - Art Book Tomato - Process: A Tomato Project - Art Book Eno • Hyde - Someday World - 2xLP, Album, S/Edition Eno • Hyde - Someday World - 2xLP, Album, S/Edition Eno • Hyde - Someday World 12" x 12" Art Print - Art Print Eno • Hyde - High Life - 2xLP, Album Eno • Hyde - Brian Eno and Karl Hyde with Flowers in Vase Against White Background Postcard - Postcard Eno • Hyde - Brian Eno and Karl Hyde on Stage Before a Concert - Postcard Karl Hyde - Edgeland - 2xLP, Album, 180 Karl Hyde - Personal Live Photograph - Photograph |
Supplemental Note on the Underworld Collection
Following the acquisition of the final four Underworld multi-disc super-deluxe box sets for my archival project, I found that my collection had outgrown its space in my record room and I wanted a storage solution which would blend seamlessly with my vintage decor. I took careful measurements and trekked to my city’s antique mall and found a large antique wooden crate the exact dimensions (to the very inch!) that I was hoping to find.
It’s a perfect vintage solution to house my collection of nearly eighty Underworld releases! The sturdy wooden crate features weathered stamping for 120lbs of (Ben) Franklin brand sugar. Here it is in my home, fitted appropriately beneath a framed promotional print of my favorite album by the duo. https://i.imgur.com/0jQkYX7l.jpg |
Transitioning the Seasons with Spirit of Eden
I'm admittedly a latecomer to this seminal and influential work, but it's better late than never. And it's thrilling to know that despite my exhaustive hours of daily music surveys and research that there are still reflective, beautiful gems still waiting to be discovered.
And so it is with Talk Talk's 1988 LP, Spirit of Eden. The album is critically-lauded as a progenitor of the genre which would come to define the decade that followed. Wikipedia's article on Talk Talk's co-founder and songwriter, the late Mark Hollis calls attention to the fact that, "While they were commercial failures in their own time, these albums have come to be seen as early landmarks of post-rock music." Two quotes from Hollis resonated deeply with my own philosophies of music and composition. In an interview with Danish TV, 22nd February 1998, Hollis said: "Before you play two notes, learn how to play one note. And don't play one note unless you've got a reason to play it." And in an interview with BBC Radio 1’s Richard Skinner around the release of their next album, Laughing Stock, Hollis adds: "The silence is above everything, and I would rather hear one note than I would two, and I would rather hear silence than I would one note." Wikipedia's entry for Spirit of Eden offers some insight into the album's composition: The album was compiled from a lengthy recording process at London's Wessex Studios between 1987 and 1988. Often working in darkness, the band recorded many hours of improvised performances that drew on elements of jazz, ambient, blues, classical music, and dub. But it was the praise-filled Pitchfork article on the album which inspired my first-listen, where the album was rated a perfect 10/10 score. The lengthy article offers a much-deserved contextual examination of the album and a few key remarks caught my attention: In interviews, he would point to Miles Davis and Gil Evans’ orchestral jazz masterpiece Sketches of Spain, or the zen experiments of John Cage, or Vittorio De Sica’s avant-garde film The Bicycle Thieves as touchpoints for his inspiration. ... The thrill of this music is the same thrill of listening to some of the great works of jazz, classical, and pop: the soul of Miles Davis’ In a Silent Way, the obtuse landscapes of Morton Feldman, the production and patience of Brian Eno. Today, this coming together of spirit and sound still feels like a radical and mysterious feat of popular music. This was unequivocally an album I needed to hear. And The Guardian described the album as a blend of "pastoral jazz, contemporary classical, folk, prog rock and loose blues into a single, doggedly uncommercial musical tapestry" which would be labeled "post-rock." Whatever label one elects to apply, this is an exquisite specimen of sound-art, and warrants repeated listenings on reflective winter evenings such as this. And a dear friend and ambient composer offered an insightful remark on the album, saying, "What especially impresses me is how fluid and organic it is in evading any traditional sense of ‘rock music’ at all -- and this is especially apparent in much of the soft dynamics. Any sense of music at all is almost not there, as if the music is on the verge of dissipating into silence." RateYourMusic files the album under the categories of jazz-rock, chamber jazz, art rock, and chamber music, and its user-base charts the album as #2 for its original release year, hot on the heels of Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation. And the site offers no shortage of poetic descriptors of Hollis' style, calling it "atmospheric, passionate, peaceful, religious, introspective, meditative, lush, soothing, spiritual, bittersweet, lonely, sparse, sentimental, pastoral, soft, ethereal, melancholic, progressive, calm, uplifting, and hypnotic." Hypnotic indeed. I immediately tracked down a copy of the UK-issued 180g 2012 remastered edition with a companion 96kHz/24bit stereo DVD. It's the perfect soundtrack to usher in the spring. https://i.imgur.com/jfmbnicl.jpg |
I think I’ve fully established how deeply I love Sonic Youth but I’ve listened to both of those albums many more times than I have Daydream Nation.
All three are unassailable though Laughing Stock stirs up something in me that’s deeper than I usually think I go. Even after many many listens it’s still startling how good it is. |
Brian & Roger Eno - Mixing Colours
Not a formal review - just a quick update. I’m sitting down for a first listen to the culmination of a 15-year collaboration between Brian Eno and his brother, Roger - Mixing Colours released yesterday on Deutsche Grammophon.
The reviews have been mixed so far, but most of the negative reviewers are simply miffed that it isn't "groundbreaking," while PopMatters called it, "a Celebration of Contemplative Slowness." That's fine by me - I'll happily take another double-LP of The Pearl or Apollo. A few tracks in... I'm digging it. https://i.imgur.com/AMBYzEKl.jpg |
50 Skidillion Watts of Slightly Dated New York Weirdo Hipster Novelty Humor
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I have a decent collection of novelty records, from the first "break-in" 7-inch, Buchanan and Goodman's "Flying Saucer Pts I & II," to a fish-head-shaped picture disc of Barnes & Barnes classic, "Fish Heads," to the full-scale replica of "Weird Al" Yankovic's accordion housing vinyl remasters of his entire 40-year career in the industry. (I even had the good fortune of getting Dr. Demento, himself to sign my 1953 debut 10" of Songs By Tom Lehrer!) So when I discovered that the hilarious Bongos, Bass, and Bob had put out a record featuring many of my favorite Demented hits, I tracked down a copy right away. The band recorded one album with Penn Gillette and produced by Kramer in 1988 titled, Never Mind The Sex Pistols, Here's Bongos, Bass, and Bob (What Were They Thinking???) on Jillette's label, 50 Skidillion Watts, (written out as 50,000,000,000000,000,000,000 Watts Records), Catalog # 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,003. The album includes favorites like: ● Oral Hygiene ● Walkin' in the Park ● What's Your Name, Babe? ● Clothes of the Dead ● and Thorazine Shuffle (a cover of the single by Modern Entertainment) The album is a comedic mishmash of genres, including folk, world music, country, jazz, rock, doo-wop, punk, and calypso, as well as lo-fi, noise, and avant-garde musical styles. The trio is a self-proclaimed "speed Mariachi" band composed of Penn Jillette on bass, Dean Seal on bongos, and Rob Elk on guitar. Several tracks were featured on The Dr. Demento Show, and an alternate sans-Jillette take of "Oral Hygiene" recorded under the name "Mr. Elk and Mr. Seal" was featured on WITR's Friggin Here radio show in the 90s. It also appeared as track #2 on Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes Volume 01. I'd spent those halcyon summers painstakingly taping 27 weeks worth of broadcasts of Friggin Here and entering the complete set lists into a word processor to print on my dot matrix printer, (this was 1995 after all), so it was a real treat to claim the songs I so fondly remembered on wax. It's offbeat, humorous, and original stuff. From Allmusic: Quote:
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Related projects of note include John S. Hall & Kramer (Hall is the vocalist from King Missile)'s Real Men LP and Captain Howdy (Penn Jillette w Kramer) who produced "The Best Song Ever Written" b/w "Dino's Head" which I own on 45. But Bongos, Bass, and Bob remain a stand-out favorite from the best of the Dr. Demento era. There is a playlist of a vinyl-rip of the album on YouTube, though a few tracks are cut in the wrong places, (track 2, “Clothes of the Dead” for example is mistakenly cut short at a moment of silence before the final chorus which resumes at the beginning of video #3). Still, it provides a taste of the comedic madness and irreverence of this record. Vinyl Rip Album Playlist on YouTube. |
Friggin’ Here Comes to the Internet Archive
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I’m delighted to announce the completion of an historic archival project at Innerspace Labs! When I was a young man growing up in Rochester, NY, I routinely spent my weekends tuning in to the city’s comedy/novelty radio programme titled, Friggin’ Here. The show was broadcast on The Rochester Institute of Technology’s radio station, WITR 89.7FM in the 1990s. Friggin’ Here filled the comedy void of not having The Dr Demento Show in Rochester and featured many local and regional comedy artists who went on to national acclaim on Dr Demento’s show. And during the time these episodes were airing, co-host Devo Spice made it to #1 on The Dr Demento Show with his hit, “South Park Junkie,” recorded with his band, Sudden Death, and landed Dr. Demento's Funny #1 of the Year three times in the years that followed. This was definitely a piece of history that deserved to be archived. I taped 27 of the shows in my basement studio in the mid-90s, and recently considered the possibility of digitizing and making those recordings available online for fans around the world to revisit and enjoy. Tragically, despite my painstaking efforts at organization, I was unable to locate those old cassettes. Undeterred, I reached out to the members of an online community celebrating comedy music and inquired as to whether or not anyone else had recordings of the local programme from my youth. As fate would have it, Devo Spice and a few of the show's guest artists were members of that community, and the administrators tagged them in response. Astonishingly, I received a reply that Devo Spice had personally taped nearly all of their shows during his participation with the programme. Not only that, but he had wisely positioned the deck in the station’s studio with the signal going to the tape deck before it went out over the air, so the sound is as good as it can be! Best of all, just two years ago he had sent those very tapes to a friend named Dr Don who performed the laborious task of digitizing over 97 hours worth of analog audio content. Unfortunately however, the co-host had stored the resulting digital audio on a since-failed PC, and retrieving them was an undertaking. There were a few weeks of baited breath, but at last he responded confirming that the tracks were safely recovered and he transferred the files to me. Examining the library, I found his tapes were vastly superior to my own home-taped cassettes. I ran the files through a spectral waveform analyzer and verified that they had been ripped using the Hydrogenaudio “Insane” preset of -b 320 - a constant bitrate of 320kbps, which is the highest possible audio compression standard for MP3 and is demonstrably indistinguishable from lossless audio. Evidently, Dr Don took every measure to ensure the very best quality for his digitization process. There is audible aging to the cassettes, themselves but every effort has been made to preserve them as best as possible. And in addition to the superior pre-broadcast sound, where I had omitted selections, (whether they be duplicate songs or just tracks I didn’t particularly fancy), the co-host’s archive was nearly complete with all shows unabridged from his years with the programme. I immediately went to work analyzing the audio data, tagging, and uniformly-formatting the library. Once they were prepped for a satisfactorily archival standard, I embarked on the task of uploading each broadcast to The Internet Archive and attaching each programme’s track list and relevant metadata. After the entire library was uploaded, I drafted a summary and submitted a request to The Internet Archive to format the set as an official Collection. With that request now fulfilled, the archive is readily-accessible for listeners around the world to enjoy. It’s a small but important way for me to give back to the artists who filled my teenage years with laughter. For those curious about the origin of the show’s title, Devo Spice provided the details on his official website’s biography at Devospice.com: Quote:
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The KLF Collection: 2020 Update
Just a quick check-in today. I’m grateful to have received an incredible gift this weekend of several UK import KLF and related singles from a wonderfully generous friend who was thinning out their personal record collection. He knew that no one in the city would appreciate them more than I. With the new titles added, it seemed fitting to take an updated photograph of the collection to date. Here’s what I have so far, including Drummond’s Silent Protest deck of cards, (the tiny black item toward the lower right), a rare first-edition of The Manual, the Stadium House Trilogy VHS, and several titles from the exquisite Recovered & Remastered series, (highly recommended!)
My KLF collection now comprises 45 physical LPs, CDs, books, and other ephemera. The digital portion of my KLF library includes 164 albums, EPs, and other releases totaling over 109 hours of music and 93 films clocking in at 19 hours of rare video footage and interviews. I understand that there are collectors with far larger KLF libraries, but I’m pleased with what I’ve built so far. Special thanks to my very generous friend! https://i.imgur.com/QxXfRH2l.jpg |
Brian Eno Collection Milestone (Pt 1 of 2)
Today I’ve proudly reached a milestone with my Brian Eno collection. In addition to the dozens of art prints, books, lithographs, 85 digital releases, and other miscellanea I’ve acquired, I’ve now successfully built a sizable library of most major releases issued in the vinyl format by the artist.
While there are still a number of bootlegs and collaborative efforts, as well as titles from Eno’s catalog originally issued in the 90s now being released for the first time on vinyl, my library comprises 40 of his best-loved works totaling 64 discs of content, including the highly sought-after Music For Installations 9LP limited edition box set. This feature will showcase the most noteworthy elements of my collection to date. I’ll begin with the LPs, themselves. It was quite a challenge to photograph 40 12” multi-disc releases all in one shot, particularly without photographer’s lamps and other equipment, but I’ve done my best using the trusty digital SLR I received from my family when I first started art college twenty-two years ago. Here are the LPs: https://i.imgur.com/h8c77dCl.jpg Next, for some art, here is the “Electric Love Blueprint - A History of Electronic Music” theremin schematic created by the Dorothy design collective. The infographic “celebrates over 200 inventors, innovators, artists, composers and musicians who (in our opinion) have been pivotal to the evolution of electronic music, from the invention of the earliest known sound recording device in 1857 to the present day.” Of course, Brian Eno’s name appears typeset in the largest point size of any pioneer cited among the layout. The 60 x 80 cm art print is printed with metallic silver ink on 120gsm Keaykolour Royal Blue uncoated stock. It was gifted to me by a dear friend and hangs proudly in my listening room. https://i.imgur.com/F7BjOVDl.jpg Next is a limited edition oversized promotional art print for Eno’s 77 Million Paintings exhibition at Moogfest in 2011. https://i.imgur.com/oAgHmqPl.jpg And just for fun, I had a t-shirt printed up with the art from one of the most influential early Eno solo albums, Before and After Science. https://i.imgur.com/SoGZafXl.jpg I also made sure to track down an original UK pressing of that very album specifically for the large lithographs exclusive to that edition painted by Peter Schmidt. I had the lithographs professionally framed for my dining room. https://i.imgur.com/xCsw3oOl.jpg I also secured both original and remastered pressings of Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks. The Extended Edition includes the For All Mankind bonus LP and I was among the first 250 to order which got me a handsome 42cm x 59cm poster of the Apollo cover artwork which I had framed as well. https://i.imgur.com/7ZNrQ4xl.jpg I was similarly inspired by Eno’s pioneering ambient effort, Music For Airports, so I prepared a framed print of the sheet music of the album’s score. https://i.imgur.com/w6xcQ3Tl.jpg To be continued momentarily… |
Brian Eno Collection Milestone (Pt 2 of 2)
Continued from pt 1…
Then there is the DVD collecting Eno’s experiments with film, Thursday Afternoon (1984) and Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan (1981) https://i.imgur.com/59ye9UVl.jpg I’ve previously shared my excitement when I learned that Eno had collaborated with one of my other musical heroes, Karl Hyde of Underworld. I framed the pair of postcards included with their two album releases. https://i.imgur.com/gqjYoHJl.jpg There was also an art print included with original pressings of Eno and Hyde’s first collaboration, Someday World, which I’ve framed in my listening room. https://i.imgur.com/IHEI7jwl.jpg And while working as a designer, I independently produced a 24” x 24” oversized PVC-mounted vinyl print of a graphic I designed mapping a chronology of all of Eno’s creative works both as an artist and as a producer. Here is a web-friendly downscaled copy of the artwork with a magnified sample of an area of text. https://i.imgur.com/S52uOWul.jpg Of course, what Eno collection would be complete without an edition of the Oblique Strategies oracle deck? https://i.imgur.com/fNRGsqzl.jpg And finally, here is my library of thirteen books examining the mind and the art of Brian Eno. It was great fun compiling them all, including a copy of Eno’s own diary, A Year With Swollen Appendices. https://i.imgur.com/TSVsUgzl.jpg That is the collection to date. I know that it is far from complete. My research reveals an additional 14 vinyl releases far more rare than anything I have and nearly 2,600 releases with Eno named in the credits, but I made sure to collect all of the titles which were of great significance to me, personally. Thank you for permitting me to share my love for great music. Eno and his work are an unparalleled inspiration in my life. |
Internet Archive Lawsuit May Have Dire Implications for Lenders and Borrowers Alike
Internet Archive Lawsuit May Have Dire Implications for Lenders and Borrowers Alike
Redefining "Ownership" in the Age of Subscription Services https://i.imgur.com/hNncM9yl.png In case the story has escaped your personal social media feed or news aggregator, there is a lawsuit unfolding before our eyes which is unprecedented in the history of librarianship. It has the potential to affect all of us, from students to educators to anyone who supports Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, of the United States Constitution which grants the enumerated power "To promote the progress of science and useful arts” and what it means to “own a book.” Maria Bustillos of The Nation published a startling summary of the Archive.org Open Library lawsuit and what it may mean for libraries and borrowers in the future. Several other major news sites have reported about the suit, the trial of which is set for next year in federal court, and initial disclosures for discovery are already under way. I'll quote from this particular article liberally as it most effectively and contextually frames the significance of the lawsuit and its potential impact better than any other write-up I've read to date. Bustillos begins by framing the circumstances which led to the founding of the National Emergency Library at the onset of the global pandemic. Quote:
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Physical media libraries continue to diminish as a younger generation is ushered into a subscription-service-based way of life. Music collections are being replaced with Spotify accounts. Video game consoles are being released with no physical disc drives and instead offer digital downloads which have no value should a gamer decide that they wish to explore other systems. DVD collections are becoming less common as viewers opt to curate their "collections" on services like Netflix. And software packages are no longer purchased once physically and owned thereafter - users are instead forced to pay a monthly subscription fee for continued access. Could we see the same thing happen with digital books? As a lifelong cataloger and curator, I can't imagine relinquishing my physical libraries and chaining myself to a perpetual monthly slow-bleed of non-ownership. So much of my identity is embodied in my curation. But if publishers have their way with the lending market and related legislation, we may be forced into just such a reality. Bustillos explains: Quote:
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Masnick provides numerous links to sources corroborating each of his points, but for a balanced perspective, I also made sure to search for articles challenging the claims made by these writers in an effort to counter their arguments. I could only find one opposing document, penned by Aja Romano, an Internet Culture Reporter for Vox.com. Romano rebukes reporters for the sense of urgency expressed by those wary of the lawsuit's implications and says the suit is "not as dire as you may have heard." Romano does give credit to The Internet Archive for its achievements, noting that the Wayback Machine comprises a digital collection of roughly 390 billion pages dating back to 1996 - a 10-petabyte collection and the deepest archive of internet history in existence. But she states that "the reporting surrounding [the lawsuit] was hyperbolic and alarmist." Regarding the impact of the suit on the sustainability of The Internet Archive, Romano notes the following: Quote:
So what do you think? Does the Open Library lawsuit set a precedent for all lenders which could potentially transform the library system into a subscription-based “reading as a service” operation? And might these extreme ebook pricing and licensing terms kill the market for ebook library lending altogether? Hold onto your books, everyone. |
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Ever since college I’ve held the same position. Copyright laws should be abolished.
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As you can imagine, I immerse my whole self into drafting these journal entries, and at times it feels as if I'm firing off all my energies into a black hole. All the more reason that a response, particularly feedback as positive as yours, is deeply gratifying and most-appreciated. I'm doing well - thank you for asking. I'm working from home 4/5 days a week and am passing the time with various research projects, independent archival work, and musical explorations. I apologize that I'm not as active around other major threads in the forum. I do hope that you're hanging in there and engaging in projects of your own to stay positive during this incredibly challenging year. Personally, I'm looking forward to the crisp air of autumn for the sense of vitality it brings. The gift of anyone's time is precious to me so I'm grateful when anyone reads my journal and I especially appreciate that you took a moment to respond. |
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We’ve lost twenty years of cool af hip hop samples, and wild mash-ups because copyright laws destroy free expression.
Just because you make a sound you own it? That’s ridiculous. No one should be able to own a series of sound vibrations. |
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Part 1 explores music (particularly classic rock borrowing heavily from the blues). Part 2 explores film (with a focus on George Lucas and Tarantino as mash-up artists). Part 3 covers inventions and modern computing. And the final segment explores the system, itself. Ferguson produced an HD remastered version of all four segments combined into a 30-minute film on YouTube in 2015. There is also a minisode examining shot-for-shot origins of cinematic inspirations for The Matrix. If you haven't seen them before, he does a great job of covering The Three Key Steps to Creativity: Copy, Transform, and Combine and how no ideas are born in a vacuum. |
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I googled to see who said “Good artists copy; great artists steal” but too many people stole it to know. |
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On a related note, I have a copy of the excellent book, Audio Culture: Readings In Modern Music which collects various essays and music manifestos and which includes a piece titled, "Plunderphonia" by Chris Cutler. I did some digging and tracked down a copy of the full essay without a paywall here. |
Thanks so much for tracking down the "Plunderphonia" essay! Audio Culture is an amazing book - I actually have a used copy on my shelves, but unfortunately never managed to read the majority of the including "Plunderphonia" (I recall making a beeline for the Eno and Ornette Coleman-related stuff, then dropping off!). So it's a treat to have this digital copy at hand now. Thanks as well for posting the Everything Is A Remix, which I'm definitely looking forward to watching.
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Building a Survey of Jazz: A Brief Summary of My Larger Jazz-Related Collections
Building a Survey of Jazz: A Brief Summary of the Larger Jazz-Related Collections in My Library
https://i.imgur.com/IMM12cSl.jpg I have a decent starter-collection of jazz vinyl, focusing primarily on Miles Davis' catalog including the 6LP Miles at the Fillmore box set, as well as a selection of the better quality big band box sets on wax. But I've been working on building the digital portion of my jazz collection, the larger box sets of which total 1,626 albums. These highlights help me add a sense of order to the 22,000 jazz recordings in my digital library. To date, my focus has been on essential classics, vocal jazz standards, the crooners, tin pan alley, jazz pop (1920-1960), highlights of avant-garde jazz, the big bands, swing, a bit of ECM, future jazz (in the electronic realm), film noir scores, gypsy jazz / jazz manouche, and their related subgenres. I've been in the mood to explore The Great American Songbook, (jazz vocal standards by Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Ellington, etc), so I started doing some research. I'm no jazz expert, but some preliminary Google searches, list-generators, and review surveys provided me with sufficient information to begin building a respectable personal library. One intriguing release offered for sale on Toronto's JazzFM website was an astonishingly large 500 CD box set called, The World's Greatest Jazz Collection. Of course, due to licensing restrictions, the set lacks some of the classic milestone recordings which come to mind when such a title is raised, but the sound quality and sheer volume of the collection warranted its addition to my library. The 500-CD World's Greatest Jazz Collection comprises five 100-disc sub sets:
Next I tackled building discographic archives of key figures in the history of classic and modern jazz. Larger jazz artist discographies in my archive include but are not limited to the following:
as well as the 16-CD Diana Krall discography. (My late father was a fan and sparked my interest in her catalog when I was starting college.) And as I've discussed in former features, I worked hard to build analog and digital archives of the finest big band collections ever issued to the public. Some of these were exclusively available from mail order subscription services on vinyl and later on compact disc, but thankfully, archivists around the world have painstakingly digitized the vinyl-exclusive volumes and produced complete digital libraries of these sets at professional archival quality. In my Big Band Archive I have:
Other smaller and more precisely-focused jazz collections in my library include:
My collection is leagues away from exhaustive or complete in the vast scope of the world of jazz - an insurmountable task for certain, but I've done my best to construct a modest library showcasing the key subgenres I enjoy most. These will provide me with years of listening enjoyment on lazy Sundays and on my afternoon drives queued up in the car from my personal media server. In an effort to determine the best recordings to sample first, I began compiling various “best-of” lists. Rateyourmusic user erikfish found 22 "top jazz albums of all time" lists in books, magazines and web sites and combined them into one meta-list here. And TheJazzResource.com compiled a similar list of the Top 25 Jazz Albums of All Time. Spinditty published a feature on Ten Coltrane Albums Every Jazz Fan Should Own and NPR put together a similar roster called The Cocktail Party Guide To John Coltrane. I also assembled some of my own lists including Modal Jazz Essentials, Recordings of the First Great Quintet (Davis and Trane in ‘56), as well as 17 Essential Hard Bop Recordings courtesy of critic Scott Yanow and a Top Ten Essentials list of Thelonious Monk LPs. I would love to hear your recommendations for your favorite titles from the collections mentioned above which deserve priority listening, or your suggestions for other collections which would complement my current library. If I've any glaring omissions, please let me know! I'm always eager to learn. |
I made a listening guide for jazz appreciation on freak fighter:
https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...ml#post1965257 also do you know about piero scaruffi? https://www.scaruffi.com/jazz/best100.html |
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Building a Library of the Original Sherlock Holmes Canon and Early Adaptations
I've had some vacation time on my hands and I wanted to stay productive, so I dedicated some time to refining and expanding my library of materials relating to the original canon of Sherlock Holmes and the early and most treasured adaptations. I've always wanted to explore classic detective fiction, and there is undeniably no better place to start than with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
For my physical collection, I began by tracking down an original 1967 first-single-volume-edition of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, comprising the complete texts of the four novels and fifty-six short stories, accompanied by an introduction, notes, maps, diagrams, photographs, and drawings - an indispensable possession for all mystery fans. The book is monstrously oversized in a single mammoth volume, but fortunately I found a mahogany bookcase the exact size of the edition's slipcase to display it proudly over my fireplace. I secured a digital ebook archive of the complete texts as well to facilitate casual reading on the go and started my perusal. Here is the book in its bookcase: https://i.imgur.com/FhaNzGUl.jpg And some of the lovely annotations: https://i.imgur.com/4alV70bl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/uG9dSCGl.jpg Also in the spirit of the canon, I tracked down a high-resolution copy of my favorite illustration from the original adventures published in The Strand Magazine between 1891 and 1892 by Sidney Paget and had it printed and framed for my home. https://i.imgur.com/Cbgmi9hl.jpg Next it seemed appropriate to secure an exhaustive audio library of all major radio adaptations of the original tales and related materials. My 223-disc Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audio collection includes the following: - CBS Radio Mystery Theater - The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (83 CD Set) - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes BBC Radio Dramas (79 CD Set) - The Complete Sherlock Holmes Audiobooks 9 Volumes Unabridged (60 CD Set) - The Immortal Sherlock Holmes - Orson Welles, Mercury Theater 1938-09-25 And for my video library, I've acquired the Blu-ray Complete Collection of Basil Rathbone's portrayals of Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. John H. Watson - fourteen films produced between 1939-1946, which comprises: - The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) - The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (1939) - The Voice Of Terror (1942) - The Secret Weapon (1942) - Sherlock Holmes In Washington (1943) - Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) - The Spider Woman (1944) - The Scarlet Claw (1944) - The Pearl Of Death (1944) - The House Of Fear (1945) - The Woman In Green (1945) - Pursuit To Algiers (1945) - Terror By Night (1946) - The Secret Code-Dressed To Kill (1946) https://i.imgur.com/UHQpLhRl.jpg These sleuthing adventures will be a joy to explore during the remainder of my vacation. I've done my best to survey Wikipedia's pages of the original canon as well as the wonderful Baker Street Wiki at https://bakerstreet.fandom.com to ensure that nothing was overlooked. Still, if I've omitted any other classic materials which one might regard as essential to the original Sherlock Holmes universe, I would welcome suggestions for additional content. But the library outlined above should give me plenty to explore through the chilly winter ahead. “The game is afoot.” https://i.imgur.com/MNO6ZFfl.jpg |
Silencing the Cacophony: An Affordable Solution to Drown Out the Idiot Next Door
My neighborhood is mostly a silent retirement community, save for my immediate next-door drunken and openly-racist neighbor who routinely blasts classic rock FM radio while he burns fires right outside my bedroom window every night when I'm trying to sleep. The music is so loud that I can’t read or do anything to distract myself from the racket. Speaking to him was hopeless, and I've had the police out but he starts it up again the very next night.
No amount of my gentle classical or ambient music could drown out his onslaught of staticy AC/DC and car adverts. I felt trapped in my own home and would likely have to endure this every night until the winter and again through all the fairer seasons. I needed a solution, and fast. I came up with the idea to invest in a quality pair of active noise-cancelling headphones. A very quick overview for those not immediately familiar with active noise cancellation technology - microphones built into the headphones pick up the noise around the listener. An adaptive algorithm analyzes the waveform of the background noise, then generates a signal that will either phase shift or invert the polarity of the original noise. This inverted signal (in antiphase) is then amplified and a transducer creates a sound wave directly proportional to the amplitude of the original waveform, creating destructive interference. This effectively reduces the volume of the perceivable noise. In short, its technology frees me from being subjected to an endless loop of "Comfortably Numb," "Stairway to Heaven," "Sweet Child 'O Mine," and "Hotel California." One of the most popular active noise-cancelling circumaural closed-back headphones on the market is the Bose QuietComfort 35, usually priced at around $300. Thankfully, Amazon offered a highly-competitive contender to those headphones at a fraction of the price. A few quick specs of the solution I found:
The model is the Soundcore Life Q20 by Anker, featuring hybrid active noise-cancellation, which they explain thusly: Hybrid ANC is the best noise cancelling technology which combines feedforward and feedback ANC by placing a microphone both on the inside and outside of the earpiece. Therefore it can suppress noise over a wider frequency range, adapt to and correct errors and is less sensitive to sound angle and user wear. The New York Times’ Wirecutter staff review called them "The best budget noise-cancelling headphones under $100." These headphones pair with up to two Bluetooth devices and in addition to noise-cancellation feature action controls for volume, play/pause, previous/next track, and phone call controls all from the earpiece. And as I mentioned in the specs list, the 60 hour (ANC off) / 40 hour (ANC on) wireless run time and unlimited wired listening as well as the fast-charging feature where a 5 minute charge provides 4 hours of wireless listening make these an incredibly viable solution for sudden instances of unwanted ambient noise. The earcups swivel and the headband can be manipulated in all directions, providing resilient durability and increased comfort like you’re not wearing any headphones at all, making this model a strong contender punching well above its weight to compete with professional headsets at seven times its price point. The Q20s reduce ambient noise by up to 90%. They are particularly effective masking lower frequencies which are often the most problematic undesired sounds. I just put them on, queue up a soft sound bed like Robert Rich’s seven-hour Somnium sleep concert, and drift off undisturbed. And with the wireless Bluetooth feature I am free to walk around my home wearing them, blissfully free of my neighbor’s sonic assault. Problem solved. https://i.imgur.com/lb7Jh6ll.jpg |
Bro, you're the nerd with the ecpensive equipment. Drown out his dinosaur rock with noise music.
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For real your obnoxious neighbor can be right outside your window blasting AOR FM Radio and you can’t hear it at all even if you’re just listening to gentle ambient music on those things? I don’t exactly know how noise cancellation works but I never thought it was capable of that. I’ll definitely go in for a pair of those because I hate my neighbors so much just hearing them even for a second makes me want to get my revolver. Any reminder of their existence drives me nuts. So when you say right outside your window are talking you could lean out and spit on them close? I mean, how effective does this really shut out the rest of the audio world even if you’re listening to soft music? I’m not going to buy this and be like goddamnit I can still hear these ****ing ****s, am I? Because like Batlord said I just turn up whatever I’m listening to however loud it takes. I just use rubber earbuds that clog up your whole ear so that blocks a ****load of sound. Cheap little bastard but they sound good to me.
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And to address your skepticism - you're quite right. They don't vanquish the outside world entirely. They're 90% effective on the lower register, but you can still make out the sounds around you and derive the song that's playing from your general memory of AOR. And unfortunately, the tinny, crappy speakers neighbors of this nature tend to have generally favor the upper register so you have to deal with that. They aren't magical headphones, just the best noise-cancellation headphones under the $100 price point. Based on the reviews I've read, the Bose QuietComfort series outperform these for cancellation. Nothing eliminates unwanted sound entirely. But I'll take anything that masks it at all. And for that, I'm happy. So far I've only been able to test music played off my server from floorspeakers in the room I'm in with and without other music being queued off the server through the headphones. The weather turned a bit so the neighbor has been indoors. The difference is noticeable but not pure silence. I hope that helps. |
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A New Favorite From Steve Roach - Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces
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I’ve been spending the past few weeks building and exploring an archive of ambient music veteran, Steve Roach’s vast catalog. So far I have his first 161 major album releases, but Roach has at least 199 credited to his name, 18 of which were released this year alone, so it’s quite an undertaking. I researched various forum discussions, ambient charts, and album reviews to determine the best point of ingress for such a large discography. Steve Roach is best-known for two particular albums - Structures From Silence from 1984 and Dreamtime Return first issued in 1988. These are Berlin-Schoolesque tribal ambient records which I enjoyed but I was more interested in exploring something along the lines of beatless freeform drones so I dug deeper. I queued up the more noteworthy of his collaborations, namely those produced with fellow-ambient-guru, Robert Rich. This included both Strata and Soma from 1990 and 1992 respectively and both issued on the Hearts of Space label. I also surveyed a number of multi-disc box sets Roach had issued for a sampling of multi-hour-long mixes as soundbeds for sleep. Initially, because I had queued these albums in the chronology by which they were originally issued, the first several hours of content were rendered inaudible. This was due to the overall mastering volume of the albums increasing as the decades progressed, in line with the loudness war and trends in mastering. Because of this, as I’d set my amplifier volume so that the loudest selections didn’t disturb my rest, for the first few nights I didn’t actually hear some of the albums in the playlist. I decided to repurpose the list as a soundscape for my work day where I could adjust the volume as needed and give the releases proper attention. I’m so glad that I did! That’s how I discovered the majesty of Roach’s Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces 4CD box set from 2003. Parts one and two of this set were simultaneously issued as separate 2CD releases but they are far-better experienced in the Complete Edition box set. The set clocks in at a total runtime of just over 4 hours and 55 minutes, and is wonderful for both sleep and as a background soundscape for productivity. I’ve been playing the set on repeat daily and nightly for the past week and really enjoying it. I researched the details of the release and compiled a few remarks highlighting the merits of the set, where I found others had described its qualities far better than I ever could. I found some information on the Projeckt record label’s website as well as a dedicated discussion thread on headfi dot org. The official press release for part one of the album from the official Bandcamp page states: Quote:
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