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Milton NascimentoNovember 24 2008

The recognition of Milton Nascimento's work has been built in ambiguous ways, specially in his homeland Brazil. While kept as a cult marvel to foreign ears, his superstar status in Brazil as a lead singer paradoxically coexists with his more avantgarde approach as a musician - at least until the seventies - thus establising himself as the most prominent and inaccessible artist in the country.

His 1967 self-titled debut album - years later re-released as Travessia - is a roots samba / jazz crossover album, fully orchestrated by Luiz Eça (who also plays the Piano throughout the record), which propelled Nascimeno to worldwide recognition. In 1969, most of these songs were re-recorded under CTI's Creed Taylor guidance, resulting in Courage. Songs like "Três Pontas" and "Catavento" were emulated, new songs added ("Courage", "Vera Cruz", "October") and an english spoken version of "Travessia" (Bridges) - backed up by great names such as Herbie Hancock and Airto Moreira.

(1967) Travessia / V0

(repost) Erik Satie: Socrate; John Cage: Cheap ImitationSeptember 18 2008

There are two great articles in Wikipedia about both works:
Socrate
Cheap Imitation

(1991) Erik Satie: Socrate; John Cage: Cheap Imitation / 192k
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Will OldhamSeptember 4 2008

Will Oldham + Bill Callahan
(1993) The Sundowners - Goat Songs / 192k
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Sea Note RecordsWill Oldham + David Pajo
(2002) The Continental Op - Slitch Music / 256k
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Drag City Records

Brian Eno & Gavin BryarsJuly 1 2008

Conceptually inspired by Satie, Stockhausen, Cage and others, Brian Eno has reached the touchstone of what would become a pillar in experimental music with Discreet Music. The idea of ambience preceding music per se has been intensely explored by Satie, and taken to extreme with Cage: the concept of form has been perverted throughout his work in aspects such as length, source, harmony and reproductivity.
Eno, allied to Gavin Bryars (and spiritually assisted by Robert Fripp), released Discreet Music in 1975. The process of tapelooping was heavily explored by both Fripp and Eno in previous collaborations. This technique analogically scrutinized the possibilities of pitch and length variations in overdub, with discrete (separate) groups of patterns discreetly (restrainedly) intertwined. Eventually, the announced intention of achieving pictorical sensations was later baptized of Ambient Music.

Albeit being endlessly remembered by the thirty minute plus self-titled track, which effectively landmarked Eno's goals by the use of the referred techniques and concepts, the undervalued ageless second half of the album rea

SYRJune 5 2008

SYR1 (1997)

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downloadSYR4 (1999)
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part 1 / part 2

SYR5 (2000)

download SYR6 (2005)
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part 1 / part 2