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Rhys Chatham
Rhys Chatham is best-known as a composer of electric guitar symphonies. He started out in the early 1970s under the tutelage of minimal music founder La Monte Young, with whom he studied the…
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Charlemagne Palestine
Charlemagne Palestine has been pushing the Milky Way-wide padded envelope of minimal music and maximal art since the middle of the 20th century. Starting out in New York City in the late 1950s…
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Joseph Byrd
Joseph Byrd, circa 1961. Joseph Byrd is a composer and music teacher who’s been working since the 1950s. After starting out playing in pop, jazz and country bands as a Tucson, Arizona teen,…
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Shocking Blue
One time in a restaurant, I encountered by chance a super rad-sounding ’60s song blasting out of the speakers that seemed vaguely familiar. No matter how hard I tried, though, I couldn’t quite…
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Sonny Sharrock
Sonny Sharrock (1940-1994) was one of the original wild jazz guitarists. After starting out with a little doo-wop singing in the late 1950s, he wanted to play sax after falling under the spell…
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Debris – Static Disposal
Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time! Proto art punk band Debris formed in 1975 in Chickasha, Oklahoma–of all places–and immediately splattered their dull yee-haw surroundings with buckets of…
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Arcane Candy’s 2020 Favorite Releases
(In alphabetical order by artist name.) New Releases • Sir Richard Bishop – Oneiric Formulary LP (Drag City) • Arnold Dreyblatt and The Orchestra of Excited Strings – Star Trap LP (Black Truffle)…
