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Rick Cox – Maria Falling Away
Rick Cox is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who has been on the new music scene since the late 1970s. His Maria Falling Away CD from 2001 is completely crammed full of slowly shifting,…
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Marty Walker – Dancing On Water
Mostly quiet, delicate, floaty and melancholy, this 2001 collection of clarinet-led acoustic music does not hesitate to swerve into a lengthy and quirky hair shirt workout once or twice. Featuring works from six…
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Michael Jon Fink – I Hear it in the Rain
Michael Jon Fink is a composer of orchestral, chamber, keyboard, instrumental, electronic and vocal / dramatic music who has been working since the early 1970s. He has also been teaching composition, orchestration and…
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Chas Smith – Nikko Wolverine
Chas Smith is a performer and composer who plays pedal steel guitar and designs and builds his own sculptural metal musical instruments that combine the influence of two prominent 20th century Harrys—Partch and…
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Michael Byron – Music of Nights Without Moon or Pearl
Among many other things, Michael Byron is a modern classical composer who studied with James Tenney and Richard Teitelbaum, a music professor who taught at York University, and an editor of experimental music…
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Jim Fox – Last Things
Jim Fox is a composer and the founder / art director of Cold Blue. This California-based avant-garde classical label, which started out with numerous vinyl releases in the early 1980s, went on hiatus…
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Robert Millis + Jefferey Taylor – Victrola Favorites
Back in the late 1990s, Robert Millis and Jefferey Taylor, of the experimental music outfit Climax Golden Twins, put out a series of limited-edition cassettes called Victrola Favorites, which contained music from around…
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Charlemagne Palestine – Sacred Bordello
Sacred Bordello is one of my all-time favorite books about one of my all-time favorite artists. In an explosion of color and stark black and white, it chronicles the whole life and insanely…
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Daniel A.I.U. Higgs – Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot
Named after the Higgs boson, a massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model in particle physics, Daniel Higgs made his first appearance in the musical universe via the 1980s…
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Norbert Moslang + Andy Guhl – Sound Shifting
Voice Crack was a Swiss noise duo consisting of musicians Andy Guhl and Norbert Möslang. They formed in 1972 as a free jazz outfit, but abandoned that format in the early ’80s to…
