new newbie guide to EAI

The latest form and its styles and emphases are given a positive value in general and in advance, and its criteria interfere with and fail to accomodate for the often conflicting paths of circuitous development. In other words, listening to the music of the past with "eai ears" fails to apprehend what's dynamic in the development of style and genre.

He's back......

Really pleased to see you haven't deserted us Fear

I'v tried to narrow it down to my personal favorites:


Cage/Tudor-Variations II (Edition RZ) 1961
AMM-I couldn't pick one (Matchless)
Taj Mahal Travellers-August 1974 (CBS/P-Vine)
Taku Sugimoto-Opposite (hat NOIR)
Phil Durrant/Thomas Lehn/Radu Malfatti-dach (Erstwhile)
Keith Rowe-Harsh (Grob)
Otomo Yoshihide/Keith Rowe/Taku Sugimoto-Ajar (Alcohol)
Gunter Muller/Le Quan Ninh-La Voyelle Liquide (Erstwhile)
Toshimaru Nakamura/Sachiko M-do (Erstwhile)
Filament-29092000 (Amoebic)
--Keith Rowe/Toshimaru Nakamura Weather Sky (Erstwhile)
Cosmos-Tears (Erstwhile)
Kevin Drumm-Sheer Hellish Miasma (Mego)
MIMEO-Electric Chair + Table (Grob)
--Andrea Neumann/Burkhard Beins-Lidingo (Erstwhile)
--Yoshihide Otomo/Taku Sugimoto/Sachiko M-Les Hautes Solitudes (Beyond)
Various musicians-AMPLIFY 2002: balance (7 CDs/1 DVD box set) (Erstwhile)
--I.S.O.-s/t [Yoshihide Otomo/Sachiko M/Yoshimitsu Ichiraku] (Sound Tectonics/YCAM)
----Keith Rowe/John Tilbury-Duos for Doris (Erstwhile)
Sachiko M/Toshimaru Nakamura/Otomo Yoshihide-Good Morning Good Night (Erstwhile)
----Keith Rowe/Burkhard Beins-ErstLive 001 (Erstwhile)
Keith Rowe/Axel Dorner/Franz Hautzinger-A View from the Window (Erstwhile)
--Burkhard Stangl/Dieb13-eh (Erstwhile)
Keith Rowe/Sachiko M/Toshimaru Nakamura/Otomo Yoshihide-ErstLive 005 (Erstwhile)
GOD-Anti-Sex/Anti-Wiretapping (Made in Taiwan) (Little Enjoyer/JYRK/GMBY)
----N:Q-November Quebec (Esquilo)
Will Guthrie-Spear (Antboy)
Julie Ottavi/Dion Workman-Misenlian (Erstwhile)
Keith Rowe/Toshimaru Nakamura-Between (Erstwhile)
--Ami Yoshida/Christof Kurzmann-a s o (Erstwhile)
MIMEO-Sight (Cathnor)
Graham Lambkin-Salmon Run (Kye)
----Keith Rowe-The Room (Erstwhile)
--The Magic I.D.-Till my breath gives out (Erstwhile)
Lambkin/Lescalleet-The Breadwinner (Erstwhile)


+ not eai, but I have to mention chris watson

I'v tried to narrow it down to my personal favorites:


Cage/Tudor-Variations II (Edition RZ) 1961
AMM-I couldn't pick one (Matchless)
Taj Mahal Travellers-August 1974 (CBS/P-Vine)
Taku Sugimoto-Opposite (hat NOIR)
Phil Durrant/Thomas Lehn/Radu Malfatti-dach (Erstwhile)
Keith Rowe-Harsh (Grob)
Otomo Yoshihide/Keith Rowe/Taku Sugimoto-Ajar (Alcohol)
Gunter Muller/Le Quan Ninh-La Voyelle Liquide (Erstwhile)
Toshimaru Nakamura/Sachiko M-do (Erstwhile)
Filament-29092000 (Amoebic)
--Keith Rowe/Toshimaru Nakamura Weather Sky (Erstwhile)
Cosmos-Tears (Erstwhile)
Kevin Drumm-Sheer Hellish Miasma (Mego)
MIMEO-Electric Chair + Table (Grob)
--Andrea Neumann/Burkhard Beins-Lidingo (Erstwhile)
--Yoshihide Otomo/Taku Sugimoto/Sachiko M-Les Hautes Solitudes (Beyond)
Various musicians-AMPLIFY 2002: balance (7 CDs/1 DVD box set) (Erstwhile)
--I.S.O.-s/t [Yoshihide Otomo/Sachiko M/Yoshimitsu Ichiraku] (Sound Tectonics/YCAM)
----Keith Rowe/John Tilbury-Duos for Doris (Erstwhile)
Sachiko M/Toshimaru Nakamura/Otomo Yoshihide-Good Morning Good Night (Erstwhile)
----Keith Rowe/Burkhard Beins-ErstLive 001 (Erstwhile)
Keith Rowe/Axel Dorner/Franz Hautzinger-A View from the Window (Erstwhile)
--Burkhard Stangl/Dieb13-eh (Erstwhile)
Keith Rowe/Sachiko M/Toshimaru Nakamura/Otomo Yoshihide-ErstLive 005 (Erstwhile)
GOD-Anti-Sex/Anti-Wiretapping (Made in Taiwan) (Little Enjoyer/JYRK/GMBY)
----N:Q-November Quebec (Esquilo)
Will Guthrie-Spear (Antboy)
Julie Ottavi/Dion Workman-Misenlian (Erstwhile)
Keith Rowe/Toshimaru Nakamura-Between (Erstwhile)
--Ami Yoshida/Christof Kurzmann-a s o (Erstwhile)
MIMEO-Sight (Cathnor)
Graham Lambkin-Salmon Run (Kye)
----Keith Rowe-The Room (Erstwhile)
--The Magic I.D.-Till my breath gives out (Erstwhile)
Lambkin/Lescalleet-The Breadwinner (Erstwhile)


+ not eai, but I have to mention chris watson

I like your list. Probably one or two I'd omit there, but I think we have similar taste.

I forgot to add Fibre by Keith Rowe, Gunther Müller and Thomas Korber recorded in 2004 (released 2006, For 4 Ears). It really needs to be in my list, with the -- before it. I think the hiss on that record is amazing.


Walto, which 2 would you omit, i'm just curious
if you would like my black metal list as well, that would be amazing, haha

I forgot to add Fibre by Keith Rowe, Gunther Müller and Thomas Korber live in 2004 (released 2006, For 4 Ears). It really needs to be in my list, with the -- before it. I think the hiss on that record is amazing.

I just listened to the sample on the For 4 Ears website and, even though it is only 1 minute long, would have to agree that the hiss is well used.

Walto, which 2 would you omit, i'm just curious

I haven't heard a few of them, but of those I know, I never cared for Lidingo too much and having both Weather Sky and do is too much 'sining' for me. The main thing is you got nearly all of my faves there (depending on which AMM) and I was kind of surprised to see that.

if you would like my black metal list as well, that would be amazing, haha

I don't know too much metal. But I've recently come to really like Meshugga and Cephalic Carnage.

I forgot to add Fibre by Keith Rowe, Gunther Müller and Thomas Korber live in 2004 (released 2006, For 4 Ears). It really needs to be in my list, with the -- before it. I think the hiss on that record is amazing.

I just listened to the sample on the For 4 Ears website and, even though it is only 1 minute long, would have to agree that the hiss is well used.

Sorry to point this out, but I wouldn't necessarily go by the lo-fidelity that's posted on any site.....just get the CD to experience the music the way it was meant to be heard!!

I forgot to add Fibre by Keith Rowe, Gunther Müller and Thomas Korber live in 2004 (released 2006, For 4 Ears). It really needs to be in my list, with the -- before it. I think the hiss on that record is amazing.

I just listened to the sample on the For 4 Ears website and, even though it is only 1 minute long, would have to agree that the hiss is well used.

Sorry to point this out, but I wouldn't necessarily go by the lo-fidelity that's posted on any site.....just get the CD to experience the music the way it was meant to be heard!!

Oh no, I definitely wouldn't consider mp3 samples to be definitive excerpts of the music. I was just trying to state my opinion.

This thread has been great for me and I hope it has been helpful to others, who are discovering this music. I really cannot afford to purchase every album that interests me and I'm not completely familiar with the sound palettes of many musicians in this area. So those samples are actually kind of important for putting together my next order from a distro.

+ not eai, but I have to mention chris watson

if Watson was mentioned , then Toshiya Tsunoda should be too

+ not eai, but I have to mention chris watson

if Watson is was mention , then Toshiya Tsunoda should be too

Agreed. Tsunoda's work makes a better case for inclusion than Chris Watson, imo.

I'd have to list the Kevin Drumm and Dan Burke "Mort Aux Vaches" album. It's quite impressive in its unwavering severity. Though I don't listen to it too often, I repect the sympathetic collaborative effort and its pristine execution.

i need more tv pow.

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http://www.thursday-club.net/?p=189

Here's a link to TV Pow live at the Tusco Terror Embassy 5/29/2008.

I'm pretty sure that all you guys are wrong. EAI was invented by Mark Farner in that feedback drone on the GF live album from 1970 between the two "hits".

I'm pretty sure that all you guys are wrong. EAI was invented by Mark Farner in that feedback drone on the GF live album from 1970 between the two "hits".

I'd say Richard Maxfield and his sine wave music... oh well...

Love Me Two Times was probably the first record that really got me interested in EAI. That and the self titled Mersault album led me to check out other musicians and without them I wouldn't have investigated the genre to such an extent.

Also, I'm not really sure if they count as EAI but seeing Spunk live completely by accident while on holiday in Oslo had a massive effect on my musical development. I had something of an epiphany while watching them play and en aldeles forferdelig sykdom is/was another important album for me.

I'd love to see your black metal list!

I forgot to add Fibre by Keith Rowe, Gunther Müller and Thomas Korber recorded in 2004 (released 2006, For 4 Ears). It really needs to be in my list, with the -- before it. I think the hiss on that record is amazing.


Walto, which 2 would you omit, i'm just curious
if you would like my black metal list as well, that would be amazing, haha