 | Let the Power Fall by Robert Fripp
Buy used from: $18.21 Slowly developing progressions of guitar loops
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 | A Blessing of Tears: 1995 Soundscapes, Vol. 2 by Robert Fripp
Buy used from: $94.37 More blended, airy, and elegaic than Let the Power Fall
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 | Music for 18 Musicians
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $8.00 Reich's famous minimalist montage
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 | Sextet/Six Marimbas
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $2.59 Marimbas are perhaps the best medium for Reich's work
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 | La Koro Sutro by Lou Harrison
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $3.76 Harrison's best work: Listen to the Chaconne, for example
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 | Music Of Lou Harrison
Buy used from: $27.99 The quartet by Kronos is sublime
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 | Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.45 Classic Glass minimalism. If you're looking for a compilation, though, try Gidon Kremer's "Silencio" which mixes Glass and Part.
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 | Early Music (Lachrymae Antiquae)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $3.55 Hildegard von Bingen comfortably next to Moondog
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 | Solo Piano
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $7.50 Glass elegantly by himself. Also consider trying the mixed-bag of Koyaanisqatsi
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 | Å by Knut Hamre & Steve Tibbetts
Buy used from: $3.95 Rare viola-like instrument; gorgeous
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 | Pärt: Tabula Rasa; Fratres; Symphony No. 3
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.93 Tabula Rasa and Fratres take minimalism to new heights
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 | Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs"
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $2.91 The overrated famous one, but it's still good
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 | Lushlife by Bowery Electric
Buy new: $25.49 / Used from: $2.89 Mesmerizing and cool
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 | Tortoise by Tortoise
Buy used from: $3.97 Not strictly minimalist, but Tortoise's improv's have sympathy
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 | Discreet Music by Brian Eno
Buy used from: $5.45 The pioneering mathematical variations on Pachelbel canon are engrossing
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 | Cho by Choying Drolma & Steve Tibbetts
Buy used from: $7.50 Beautiful variations of one Tibetan chant
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 | Live at Newport by John Lee Hooker
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $4.96 Miminalist blues: the early 60's Hooker was almost a ccapella (always look for Vanguard recordings)
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 | Alina - Arvo Pärt by Vladimir Spivakov
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.95 Quintessential minimalist piano. The same few notes repeated at slow intervals in slightly different ways. Gorgeous and mesmerizing.
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 | He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms by A Silver Mt. Zion
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $7.75 Quasi-minimalist contemporary post-orchestral post-rock
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 | Sa Golo by Baboucar Traore
Buy used from: $15.89 Awe-inspiring, minimalistic Mali bluesman
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 | 360 Business/360 Bypass by Pan American
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $4.45 Terrific! More minimalist than HiM, less jazzy and more alternative ambient
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 | Directions in Music by Bundy K. Brown
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $7.75 Tortoise side-project post-bop post-rock mathematical jazz has minimalist tendencies: beautiful and engaging
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 | Aerial M by Aerial-M
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $0.79 Either this or "post global music" is Pajo's (another Tortoise alum) ambient guitar minimalism
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 | Ambient 4: On Land by Brian Eno
Buy used from: $3.57 Overlooked genius Eno ambient: for nighttime, much of this is virtual silence with distant crickets
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 | Baraka
Buy used from: $10.32 A modern-day Koyaanisqatsi, this movie contains a more Lisa Gerrard oriented soundtrack rather than Glass's famous minimalist one, but it's still minimalist cinema
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