Avant Garde Project torrent 158 is up and running

[loudav]

I was going to continue with the US Electronc Music series this week, but I stumbled upon a cache of out-of-print CDs by the legendary pioneering minimalist composer La Monte Young, and so AGP158 is the first of (probably) three devoted to his work. These CDs are so rare that used copies of some of them sell for hundreds of dollars each.

This week's installment features The Melodic Version (1984) of The Second Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer, from The Four Dreams of China (1962), from a 1991 Gramavision CD (R2-79467). The recording features The Theatre Of Eternal Music Brass Ensemble led by trumpeter Ben Neill. Here the sustained tones produced by the brass section eerily imitate the sounds of the electrical power transformers that Young remembers listening to as a child in Bern, Idaho. This is music stripped down to its bare essentials--just four notes, in fact--so that the harmonic relationships between the complex timbres of those notes can be relished. This work makes the more austere passages in Horatiu Radulecu's Inner Time II (AGP109) sound in comparison like piece by Conlon Nancarrow. It's not for everyone.

Check it out at:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5150984

http://www.mininova.org/tor/3125114

Enjoy!

[jon abbey]

I used to fall asleep to this one all the time, one of the very few records I've ever done that with. good one, grab it!

[Moon]

And one of my favourite titles. Saying it out loud feels like music in itself.

[snailed]

Yeah, top notch LMY piece here - psyched for the next two. It also makes me wonder, when are we ever going to get a decent recording of Trio for Strings? Charles Curtis, where you at?

Thanks, loudav.

[dronist]

Oh thanks a lot, my Dream House LP is running so thin it started making me listen to the other side together.
(Noise is a dead end that way...so far)

[vonbingen]

I remember experiencing the temporary (?) Dream House at the Guggenheim during its exhibition on Western artists influenced by Eastern ideas. Will never forget it, especially the sound, it was literally something I'd never heard before. So thanks for more La Monte Young!

[7/4]

One of my favorites!




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