Tag: John Cage
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I’d Love To Turn You On: Classical and Avant-Garde Music that inspired the Sixties Counter Culture. Volume Two – él Records
There aren’t enough words to fill the page to describe just how exhilarating, revolutionary (there’s that thought again), amid the sheer utter brilliance of artists from all disciplines and certainly in some cases undisciplined, step forward The Goons – I’m Walking Backwards for Christmas, which are yours to experience here. From moments capturing the clear…
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John Cage – Lollipops – El Records
Where does John Cage exist? Begin and end? The answer to that question lies somewhere. “If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.†John Cage “Without John Cage, much of what happens in modern music and art would not be possible.†Frank Zappa When you think about…
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I’d Love To Turn You On – Classical and Avant-Garde Music That Inspired The Counter-Culture – él Records
A beautifully realised collection music that sees worlds collude in the interplay between sound, revolution and flying colours. Sometime in the 1960’s artists such as The Beatles took note of what was happening in the counter-cultural stream of consciousness populated by the Avant Garde. They, of course, had been tinkering at the edges of what…
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JOE MEEK РI Hear A New World: The Pioneers Of Electronic Music, An Outer Space Music Fantasy Р̩l records
Joe Meek was a troubled genius who helped define the use of electronics in popular music. Not the most avant-garde as the likes of John Cage, Henri Pousseur, Luciano Berio and György Ligeti ripped up the music sheet of conventional thinking in ways beyond what anyone else at the time was doing, but none the…