∞Out There For A Minute∞
Box Set Bonanza
.....Stepping into another timezone ∞ A deep dive into a different universe.....
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Barry Bermange, Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop
6 x CD, Compilation, Reissue, Mono Box Set (Silva Screen 2024) "Between January 1964 and September 1965, the BBC’s Third Programme aired four radio broadcasts collectively known as Inventions For Radio. These were startlingly innovative broadcasts, conceived by playwright Barry Bermange and consisting of voices recorded from the general public answering questions on four themes, one for each programme: dreams, the existence of God, life after death and ageing. In an era when broadcasting was still dominated by the cut-glass enunciations of received pronunciation, these were real voices, with real accents – and the broadcasts generated an avalanche of complaints about ‘rough’ voices.
In retrospect it was fitting that The BBC Radiophonic Workshop asked Coventry native and eternal outsider Delia Derbyshire to edit the clips and add electronic music and effects. The results are astonishing, although for many years Derbyshire was not credited for her contribution; writings from Derbyshire archivists Mark Ayres and David Butler flesh out the story in the brilliant sleevenotes to this box which includes one CD per broadcast and two further discs of additional material.
As ever, Derbyshire’s vision is overwhelming at times, precisely because it’s unpushy, subcutaneous, emotional, dream-like. The tracks from the first episode The Dreams evoke powerfully the intangible horror of nightmares, the sense of inevitable doom and paralysis, and Derbyshire is incredibly subtle in the layering of drones, bassy rumbles and crepuscular textures. It’s really quite impossible to conceive of how this music was created in 1964 when it sounds so astonishingly modern.
Throughout, it’s the manner in which Derbyshire evanesces her own presence and the respect with which she treats the source material that really shines through. The Amor Dei disc is framed with a sense of light and space that’s just miraculous, a flying buttress of sound that seems to hang from heaven, before the After-Life and The Evenings Of Certain Lives discs take you into narratives of grief and longing that are some of the most moving collages of sound and speech you will ever hear.
One of the true titans of modern sound creating some of her finest work. Absolutely essential." (Neil Kulkarni, The Wire January / February 2024 (Issue 479 + 480))
Amor Dei: http://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mciEJ3ebViQMWpceI9VjqYjq-ykNxYIdE
The After-Life: http://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m6T6JrohOa_DRF0JotpJm6yo6OSWKr0xk
The Evenings Of Certain Lives: http://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l85j0pUJUEUoaVZ6yFKSZU7lAgiNC1_4g
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Les Baxter
Eight Classic Albums 4cd box Reel To Reel Music Company 2019
The music ripped straight from vinyl onto cd. You hear the tics and warn out grooves here and there. But that also kinda adds to the musical charm on this low low budget box.
"Les Baxter is the leading figure in the history of exotica. Wherever exotica went, Les Baxter was there, often leading the way. His work for Capitol Records in the 1950s introduced most of the major movements in exotica. His 1950 album, "Music Out of the Moon," featured the theremin and was probably the best-selling theremin album of all time--and also founded the "space" school of exotica. In 1951, he did the same for the "jungle" school of exotica with his landmark "Ritual of the Savage" LP, for which he wrote the theme song of exotica: "Quiet Village." He crested the European cover wave with his only number one hit, "Poor People of Paris," in 1956. He produced and wrote most of the first album by the four-octave Peruvian songstress, Yma Sumac, "Voice of the Xtabay" (I've always wondered if "Xtabay" was pig Latin for "Baxter"). And he can be credited with anticipating the percussion school with his all-drums album, "Skins! Bongo Party with Les Baxter." (http://www.spaceagepop.com/baxter.htm) http://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mDMWpdi0EfZ14o0Agt31BxbWZN_vTSxy0 http://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kWGhwfMffJWebBcLtjwwNBRwho9ziGBss http://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m6ooWuEX3GyxHKmlFlnc8DbUBbg3RsoM0
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Bauhaus
An alternative listing for the The 5 Albums 5cd box on Beggars Banquet 2013:
- In The Flat Field http://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVpuNR2HpwPjgPL1UN56bCBZRdWnw8ocX
- Mask http://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMxy067kbpQjOxZ3StLtAFLq8XmEPjXtU
- The Sky's Gone Out http://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnif9Rfb5Adlncer5j9JUqlBkJF0TjKte
- Burning From The Inside http://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzxSe_21lryVnuvMCXib0S9Zj8sbOA54O
- Singles http://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgzJp78aTTv0QTynPTm_Sx8bJYgrxXupT
English Post-Punk band, formed in Northampton in 1978. Originally named "Bauhaus 1919" after the school of the same name, but dropped 1919 within a year.
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Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
Found this second hand in a record store for only 12 euro's. It comes with a massive book explaining everything about classical Hindustani music and ragas. I will probably never read that but the music on the 4cd's accompanying the booklet is also fantastic. More than 5 hours musical magic from these artists; Hariprasad Chaurasia, Buddhadev Dasgupta, Shruti Sadolikar-Katkar & Vidyadhar Vyas
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Ella Fitzgerald
This great low-budget 10 cd box on Documents from 2005 has already been my home to work and back travelling companion for weeks.........Ella Fitzgerald is a gift that keeps on giving for sure.
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pieter bos
Finally found the courage to start with the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) boxset. I have had it for more than a year, I know I love it but it's so massive....... LAFMS: The Lowest Form Of Music 10 cd boxset on Cortical Foundation RRRecords 1996. You can hear the first 3 cds in the YT playlist, just to tease your brain
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Various Artists
Opika Pende : Africa At 78RPM 4cd box on Dust-To-Digital 2011
"Opika Pende: Africa at 78rpm," is an anthology that features 100 recordings of African music from 1909 to the mid-1960s. Almost all of these tracks are reissued here for the very first time."
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Budgie
An alternative listing for the The MCA Albums 1973-1975 3cd box on MCA Records in 2016 (Remastered by Andy Pearce).
In the box are these 3 albums:
Never Turn Your Back On A Friend: http://music.youtube.com/watch?v=kt8o5dtNVyk
In For The Kill!: http://music.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Nii9wuidQ
Bandolier: http://youtu.be/kXVQuhguL5s
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Phill Niblock
"Phill Niblock (1933-2024, USA) was an artist whose fifty-year career spanned minimalist and experimental music, film and photography. Since 1985, he served as director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York with a branch in Ghent, and curator of the foundation’s record label XI. Known for his thick, loud drones of music, Niblock’s signature sound is filled with microtones of instrumental timbres that generate many other tones in the performance space. In 2013, his diverse artistic career was the subject of a retrospective realised in partnership between Circuit (Contemporary Art Centre Lausanne) and Musée de l’Elysée. The following year Niblock was honoured with the prestigious Foundation for Contemporary Arts John Cage Award."
A total of 11 films - 3 hours 55 minutes - 30+Gb - This release is on a USB stick which can be read in a PC or Mac computer, and opened in VLC or Quicktime, or other media player software. There is the Video file, which has the images and music; and a Music file, which has all the music.
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Sun Ra Arkestra
4cd box on Strut Records Art Yard 2020
"In the years leading up to 1971, Sun Ra wrote many compositions and poems specifically inspired by the ancient African Kingdoms and many others with associated mythological and heliocentric connotations. As such, a visit to Egypt and the opportunity for the Arkestra to play there was a matter of necessity. Ra’s first ever concerts outside of the US had occurred in late summer and autumn of 1970 with performances in France, Germany and the UK and a second European tour was arranged for late 1971. At the end of that second tour, Ra caught wind of cheap flights from Denmark to Cairo.
These releases comprise recordings made by Arkestra member Thomas “Bugs” Hunter made in December 1971 in the streets around the Mena House Hotel, Giza, from a concert held at the house of Goethe Institute ex-pat Hartmut Geerken in Heliopolis, from a live Cairo TV channel broadcast and a concert at the Ballon Theatre in Cairo. Ra subsequently edited the three LPs of the ‘Live In Egypt’ series for release on his Saturn record label and its affiliated twin, Thoth Intergalactic: ‘Dark Myth Equation Visitation’, ‘Nidhamu’ and ‘Horizon’."
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"The Soul of Congo is a compilation that spans the years from 1948 to 1963 as the Belgian Congo emerged from colonial subjugation into the first flower of Independence. Singers and players came to Congo’s capital Léopoldville, from all over Central Africa — from the streets of Brazzaville on the opposite shore of the Congo river to the vast plateau of Mbanza Congo in Angola, from the mineral rich areas of Lubumbashi (Elizabethville) in the Deep South to the lively docks of Kisangani (Stanleyville) in the northeast, from the rocky wastes of Mbandaka (Coquilhatville) in the West to the majestic forests of Bukavu (Costermansville) in the East.
Léopoldville became a cauldron of musical syncretism between the African rhythms that arrived with these musicians and the European, Caribbean and Cuban tunes that were popular in the big city. The new sounds were recorded for one of the big five Congo labels: Opika, Loningisa, Esengo, Olympia or Ngoma. None of the other Congolese labels better showcased the energy, variety & spirit of this era than the Ngoma label. The label was founded by the Greek Nicolas Jéronimidis in 1948. After his early death in 1951, it was further developed by Nikis Cavvadias and Alexandros Jéronimidis. During its existence, from 1948 until 1971, Ngoma made over 4500 recordings, creating a crucial cultural legacy."
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Grayson & Whitter
An alternative listing for the Appalachian Stomp Down 4cd compilation on JSP Records 2006 with all the Grayson & Whitter songs that are also on the boxset.
Here's a small sample of the original box: http://youtu.be/soF3-4Q68yk
Here's the complete release info: http://www.discogs.com/release/5248156-Various-Appalachian-Stomp-Down
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Demotika (Authentic Village Music From Greece 1917-1955) 4cd box on JSP Records 2015. Compiled by Elias Barounis from the 78rpm collection of Christopher King
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"Blue" Gene Tyranny
a quote by ‘#BlueGeneTyranny’ on his approach to music:
“Music is my way of being in the world. It teaches subtle feelings, natural growth, social interaction, and more. Music is the art of time passing filled with motion, emotion, locomotion, love of sound, and much more in bits and pieces. Music takes care of two basic needs that last throughout a lifetime: the need to relate to others and the need for freedom.”
Recorded between 1963-2019, Degrees Of Freedom Found is a six CD set “Blue” Gene Tyranny hand selected from archival, live recordings, and brand new first recordings before his passing in 2020.
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