Joel Thome conducted the Orchestra of Our Time in the Nonesuch recording, released in 1987 and recorded in November 1981 at Rutgers Church.Music linernotes album music
Inoyamaland is a Japanese duo consisting of Yasushi Yamashita and Makoto Inoue.Music linernotes album music
Innocents was released on October 1, 2013, by Little Idiot and Mute Records.Music linernotes album music
Innocents was co-produced by Moby and Mark 'Spike' Stent, making it the first time Moby worked with an outside producer.Music linernotes album music
In a letter to Charles Ives, Cowell wrote: 'As to the value of the Crawford Quartet, I think it is without question the best movement for quartet that any American has written.'Music linernotes album music
Home was the first single from Suddenly, released in October 2019, marking the first new Caribou music in five years.Music linernotes album music
Home is a track from Caribou's album Suddenly, released on February 28, 2020, by Merge Records and City Slang.Music linernotes album music
Holger Czukay, Can's bassist, produced and recorded Tago Mago. He described his ambition as 'an attempt in achieving a mystery musical world of light and darkness.'.Music linernotes album music
His playing features extended techniques, microtonal bends, and sustained feedback that pushes the instrument toward its physical limits.Music linernotes album music
Hiroshi Yoshimura recorded Music for Nine Post Cards at home on a keyboard and Fender RhodesMusic linernotes album music
He leads Fushitsusha, a long-running Japanese psychedelic and noise rock band active since the early 1970s.Music linernotes album music
Haino primarily plays electric guitar, though he also performs with voice, wooden flute, and various percussion instruments.Music linernotes album music
Haino began his solo recording career in the late 1970s, with 'Last Proof' arriving in 1988 as part of a prolific output.Music linernotes album music
Guest performers included Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips, Mark Lanegan, Cold Specks, Damien Jurado, Skylar Grey, and Inyang Bassey.Music linernotes album music
Green was recorded over the winter of 1985-86 at Yoshimura's home studio Hiroo 806 in Tokyo, and mixed at Music Station in Shinjuku, Tokyo.Music linernotes album music
Green is the fifth studio album by Hiroshi Yoshimura, released in 1986 by Sona Gaia. It was reissued in 2020 by Light in the Attic.Music linernotes album music
Frederick Ashton provided the choreography after George Balanchine turned down tMusic linernotes album music
Four Saints in Three Acts was composed by Virgil Thomson in 1928, with a libretto by Gertrude Stein written in 1927.Music linernotes album music
Forgotten Operas was released on Tzadik, the label founded by composer and saxophonist John Zorn, which specializes in avant-garde and experimental music.Music linernotes album music
Florine Stettheimer was an American painter, poet, and salon hostess who was a central figure in the New York avant-garde art scene of the early 20th century, known for her witty, decorative paintings and her legendary salon gatherings.Music linernotes album music
Faust IV was recorded in June 1973 at The Manor Studio in Oxfordshire, England, which was Virgin Records' residential recording studio.Music linernotes album music
Faust IV was produced by Uwe Nettelbeck, the former music journalist who had formed Faust in Wümmen, Germany in 1971 and served as the band's manager and creative overseer.Music linernotes album music
Faust IV was a commercial failure that led to Virgin Records refusing to release their planned fifth album and dropping the band.Music linernotes album music
Ege Bamyasi was recorded between December 1971 and June 1972 at the Inner Space Studio in Weilerswist, near Cologne.Music linernotes album music
Danzindan-Pojidon is a quintessential ambient, environmental, and electronic albumMusic linernotes album music
Computer World was recorded at Kling Klang Studio in Düsseldorf, Germany, Kraftwerk's own private studio, between 1979 and 1981.Computers linernotes album music
Computer World was produced by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk's founding members. Much of the recording time was spent modifying the studio equipment.Computers linernotes album music
Caribou is the moniker of Canadian musician Dan Snaith, who also records as Daphni.Music linernotes album music
Black Editions reissued the album on vinyl in 2017, meticulously remastered by Elysian Masters.Music linernotes album music
Birds of Fire was released in quadraphonic sound on LP and 8-track in 1973Music linernotes album music
Birds of Fire was recorded in August 1972 at CBS Studios in New York and Trident Studios in London.Music linernotes album music
Artist Florine Stettheimer designed the sets, which included innovative cellophane backdrops, and the costumes of colorful lace, silk, and taffeta.Music linernotes album music
Archangel is the second track on Burial's second studio album Untrue, released on November 5, 2007 by Hyperdub.Music linernotes album music
Archangel is classified as dubstep and UK garage, with elements of ambient music.Music linernotes album music
Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85–92 includes tracks Richard D. James recorded on cassette as young as age 13.Music linernotes album music
Al Di Meola was inspired by The Kinks' 'You Really Got Me,' the first song he attempted to play on guitar as a child.Music linernotes album music
After Romantic Warrior, Chick Corea decided the group's time had ended and continued with a new Return to Forever lineup featuring only Stanley Clarke.Music linernotes album music
'Miles Beyond' was dedicated to John McLaughlin's friend and former bandleader Miles Davis.Music linernotes album music
Visible World was recorded in June 1995 at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway.Music linernotes album music
Unlike his debut It's About Time (1992), which was a rock/funk album, Neighbourhood is a jazz album.Music linernotes album music
Tracks 2 through 5 on disc two were recorded in Tbilisi, Georgia, featuring the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jansug Kakhidze.Music linernotes album music
The track 'Zure' features a piano that had been submerged in tsunami water.Music linernotes album music
The room's resonant frequencies gradually reinforce themselves until any semblance of speech is destroyed, replaced by the room's natural resonant frequencies.Music linernotes album music
The Master Musicians of Jajouka are an all-male ensemble from a small village about 60 miles south of Tangier, Morocco, preserving a centuries-old Sufi-influenced musical tradition.Music linernotes album music
The main motif, representing the 'Flock,' is first presented by the oboe.Music linernotes album music
The Magnetic North Orchestra was established in Oslo, Norway in 1992 by Norwegian pianist and composer Jon Balke.Music linernotes album music
The higher-fidelity recording released by Lovely Music was made on October 29 and 31, 1980, in Lucier's living room in Middletown, Connecticut.Music linernotes album music
The first recording was made at the Electronic Music Studio at Brandeis University in 1969.Music linernotes album music
The first performance was in 1970 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, featuring Polaroid photograph projections by Mary Lucier.Music linernotes album music
The first ECM album by Jon Balke with the Magnetic North Orchestra was Further, recorded in June 1993 at Rainbow Studio in Oslo and released in 1994.Music linernotes album music
The album is a collaboration between Grouper, the ambient project of Oregon-based musician Liz Harris, and Jarboe, formerly of the New York band Swans.Music linernotes album music
The album features Jan Garbarek on saxophones, Tomasz Stanko on trumpet, Marcin Wasilewski on piano, and Slawomir Kurkiewicz on double bass.Music linernotes album music
The album features Bachir Attar as the leader of the Master Musicians of Jajouka, playing flute and other instruments.Music linernotes album music
The 'Pentagonal Garden' is a harmonious tone-field created mainly on the strings using five-note scales.Music linernotes album music
Takemitsu was inspired by a dream of birds descending into a garden, which he attributed to a photograph of Marcel Duchamp with his head shaved in the shape of a star-shaped garden.Music linernotes album music
Takemitsu described the piece as 'a shifting panorama of scenes' and said the structure is circular rather than linear.Music linernotes album music
Six Japanese Gardens was premiered on July 12, 1995 in Tokyo, Japan, performed by Shiniti Ueno.Music linernotes album music
Six Japanese Gardens was composed in 1993 and revised in 1995, written for percussion and electronics.Music linernotes album music
Six Japanese Gardens is scored for percussion and electronic processing, with a duration of approximately 16 minutes.Music linernotes album music
Six Japanese Gardens is a collection of impressions of gardens Saariaho saw in Kyoto during her stay in Japan in the summer of 1993.Music linernotes album music
Sakamoto walked through the streets of New York, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Paris with a cell phone microphone to capture everyday sounds.Music linernotes album music
Sakamoto conceived async as the soundtrack for a nonexistent Andrei Tarkovsky fiMusic linernotes album music
Rites was released as a double album on ECM Records (ECM 1685/86) on October 5, 1998.Music linernotes album music
Rites was produced by Manfred Eicher and engineered by Jan Erik Kongshaug at Rainbow Studio.Music linernotes album music
Rites features Rainer Brüninghaus on piano and keyboards, Eberhard Weber on bass, Marilyn Mazur on drums and percussion, and Bugge Wesseltoft on synthesizer and accordion.Music linernotes album music
Plague Mass was recorded live on October 12 and 13, 1990 at the Cathedral of St.Music linernotes album music
Plague Mass was produced by Kurt Munkacsi and Blaise Dupuy, with Rory Johnson as executive producer.Music linernotes album music
Plague Mass is part of Diamanda Galás's Masque of the Red Death trilogy, addressing the AIDS epidemic and societal response to the crisis.Music linernotes album music
Officium, his 1994 collaboration with the Hilliard Ensemble recorded at St Gerold monastery in Austria, became one of ECM's best-selling albums.Music linernotes album music
Neighbourhood was recorded in March and November 2004 at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway.Music linernotes album music
Neighbourhood is led by French session drummer Manu Katche, his second solo album.Music linernotes album music
Manu Katche and Marilyn Mazur both contribute drums and percussion on various tracks.Music linernotes album music
Manfred Eicher, ECM Records' founder, has produced the vast majority of Garbarek's albums since the early 1970s.Music linernotes album music
Lucier was inspired after a colleague described a lecture by Amar Bose about testing loudspeakers by feeding their own audio output back into them.Music linernotes album music
Jon Balke created the work Magnetic North as Olympic musical ambassador for the 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer, Norway.Music linernotes album music
Jan Garbarek is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist who rose to international fame in the 1970s playing with Keith Jarrett's European Quartet.Music linernotes album music
Grouper's hazy ambient meets Jarboe's visceral vocals — a mutual dissolution of boundariesMusic linernotes album music
Citadelamerica was released on ECM Records, Jan Garbarek's longtime label home.Music linernotes album music
Async was Sakamoto's first solo studio album in eight years, since Out of Noise in 2009.Music linernotes album music
Async was Ryuichi Sakamoto's first solo album since recovering from throat cancer in 2015, and he thought it might be his last album.Music linernotes album music