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Tod Dockstader – From the Archives
Tod Dockstader (1932-2015) was a sound engineer and effects specialist at Gotham Recording studios in New York City from the late 1950s to the mid-’60s who, with no formal musical training, secretly composed…
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Daniel Goode – Eight Thrushes in New York
“Daniel Goode is a New York-based composer and clarinetist who is the co-director of the Downtown Ensemble, a core member of Gamelan Son of Lion, and an important and early minimalist.”–Frog Peak. Eight…
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Randy Hostetler – Happily Ever After
Happily Ever After is an epic spoken word piece composed and assembled in the mid 1980s by CalArts student Randy Hostetler (1963-1996). The work is comprised of multiple layers of Randy’s friends and…
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Various Artists – The Frog Peak Collaborations Project
The Frog Peak Collaborations Project is a 2-CD compilation of experimental sound put together by Larry Polansky back in 1997 containing 115 pieces, each one minute long, by 62 composers. All of these…
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Melody Sumner Carnahan – The Time is Now
Considering the fact that Frog Peak Music sent me this CD, The Time is Now, way back in 2003, it’s safe to say the time is now for me to review it. Released…
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Arcane Candy’s 2016 Favorite Releases
(In alphabetical order by artist name.) New Releases • Dayak Benuaq – Kwangkay (Funerary Music of the Dayak Benuaq of Borneo) LP (Sublime Frequencies) • Lush – Chorus 5-CD + book (4AD) •…
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David Demnitz – Gamelan as a Second Language
Released in 1996, the appropriately titled Gamelan as a Second Language CD features six pieces written for Javanese gamelan by American composer David Demnitz. All of the pieces are played by Gamelan Son…
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Larry Polansky – Change
Three-and-a-half billion years of evolution of life on Earth have finally culminated in the ultimate collection of atoms: Larry Polansky! First appearing in the Holocene epoch within the Quarternary period of the Cenozoic…
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Sublime Frequencies Celebrates 100 Releases!
Sublime Frequencies celebrates 100 releases. Sublime Frequencies complete LP collection from SF 001 up to SF 102. Sometime back in the latter half of 2003, I was boning up on the latest weekly…
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Eighth Blackbird – Hand Eye
Formed in 1996, contemporary classical ensemble Eighth Blackbird “combines the finesse of a string quartet, the energy of a rock band and the audacity of a storefront theater company.” Their latest album, Hand…
