 | Authentic Music Of The American Indian by Various Indian Tribes
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $5.25 A dark, primal beauty permeates these woefully-short selections which nevertheless do their job of inciting joy, fear, and awe.
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 | Blow Boys Blow by Ewan MacColl
Buy used from: $5.80 Tougher than rock, and often-times a helluva lot more fun. Genuine sea shanties sung by guys who have sailed all their lives; just listening I can smell the sea, the whiskey, the blood... a favorite.
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 | Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano (arranged for chamber orchestra); Tango?; Toccata; Piece No. 2 for Small Orchestra; Trio No. 1; Sarabande and Scherzo
Buy used from: $7.85 It drives some of my friends crazy, but I find the endlessly rotating rythms and counter-rythms quite soothing. I detect a note of humor in these pieces, but it may just be me. Hear the original too.
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 | Moondog
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.71 This guy's beautiful! Blind street musician in a Viking costume makes good and heads to Europe, where he composes an 8-hour canon. What a great story!!! And the music's just as great!!!
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 | Oh Me Oh My... by Devendra Banhart
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $7.18 This guy is amazing. There's nothing more one can say after hearing this album. If you hear it and don't have the same reaction, my advice is to try Prozac.
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 | Rushes by The Fireman
Buy used from: $95.99 You'd never guess who this really is, and in case you don't know, I won't write it down here. You'll be surprised, maybe even shocked, if and when you find out.
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 | Four Walls
Buy used from: $5.99 Breathtakingly simple, shatteringly quiet, and austerely tragic, this early commission from Cage is great, if a bit out of step with his later stuff.
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 | Phuket a La Bum Bum by Ass Baboons of Venus
Buy used from: $11.98 Any band with a name like this deserves recognition. This is not the album I own, but that one is not available here; this should suffice. I trust it's every bit as wonderful as the one I own.
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 | A Zed And Two Noughts: Original Music From The Film By Peter Greenaway by Michael Nyman
Buy used from: $2.65 By turns graceful, sardonic, witty, and downright insane, Michael Nyman's most outrageous Greenaway score plays like more accessible Philip Glass. Mathematic in its precision, but never inhumanly so.
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 | Philosophy of the World by The Shaggs
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.69 At first listen, just a band that very badly needs to rehearse. After that, you begin to notice strange patterns in the music; were these intended? Probably not... but it's fascinating nonetheless.
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