 | Inside the Dream Syndicate, Vol. 1: Day of Niagara by John Cale
Buy used from: $50.00 This is a bootleg unapproved by La Monte Young of "25 IV 65 c. 8:15-8:45 PM NYC Day of Niagra from The Tortoise, His Dreams and Journeys". Poor sound quality &only 30' long so buyer beware on this one
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 | Just Stompin': Live at the Kitchen by La Monte Young & the Forever Bad Blues Band
Buy used from: $80.00 A 1993 2CD set of La Monte Young's Forever Bad Blues Band performing "93 I 14 ca. 8:54 - ca. 10:54 PM NYC Young's Dorian Blues in G (Bb=60Hz) (c. 1960-61-present)" at the Kitchen in NYC in early 1993.
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| Just Stompin by Forever Blues Band
The FBBB are La Monte Young, Korg synthesizer, Jon Catler, just intonation & fretless guitar, Brad Catler, just intonation & fretless bass, Jonathan Kane, drums & Marian Zazeela, lighting design.
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| La Monte Young: The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer (from "The Four Dreams of China")
Buy used from: $140.00 "90 XII 9 c. 9:35-10:52 PM NYC The Melodic Version (1984) of The Second Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China (1962)" was a 1991 CD from Gramavision.
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| The Second Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer by La Monte Young
Buy used from: $118.88 "The Melodic Version of the Second Dream..." is performed by The Theatre of Eternal Music Brass Ensemble of 8 trumpets with Harmon Mutes led by Ben Neill. La Monte Young himself does not perform here.
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| LaMonte Young: The Well-Tuned Piano 81 X 25, 6:17:50 - 11:18:59 PM NYC by La Monte Young
Buy used from: $1,500.00 The Gramavision 5CD/LP/Cassette release of Young's masterwork has been long out of print and sometimes fetches astronomical prices via Amazon used dealers or zshops or on ebay.
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| Well Tuned Piano by La Monte Young
Another listing for the out of print Gramavision release. Also look for the 6+ hr DVD version of a 1987 performance on the Just Dreams label. Try MELA Foundation for instance.
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 | La Monte Young: Midnight; Raga Malkauns
Vocalist Pandit Pran Nath's 2 recordings of the midnight raga Malkauns in a 1971 SF live performance and a 1976 NYC studio performance. The latter has La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela on tamburas. JD#3
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 | La Monte Young: The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath, An Homage
La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela on tamburas in a 74' 1982 recording released on CD in 2000 on the Young/Zazeela supervised Just Dreams label. JD#1.
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| Stars by Max Highstein
Buy used from: $76.99 The 1968 recording by Pandit Pran Nath & ensemble had a brief 1986 release on Gramavision Records with a production & liner notes by La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela. Young himself does not play on it.
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 | Music for the Gift
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $14.00 La Monte Young joins his good friend Terry Riley at the live concert recording from 1960 of Riley's piece "Two Pianos Five Tape Recorders".
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| In Good Company by Jon Gibson
Buy used from: $15.00 La Monte Young on digital piano joins soprano saxophonist Jon Gibson on the track "Terry's G Dorian Blues" actually "Terry's G Dorian 12-Bar Blues (9 x 5) + 3" by Terry Jennings (1962).
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 | USA
Buy used from: $22.22 Contains an early serialist work of La Monte Young's called "Five Small Pieces for String Quartet: On Remembering A Naiad" (1956).
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 | U.S.A. by Arditti String Quartet
Buy used from: $30.00 Some earlier edition copies of the Arditti String Quartet's "U.S.A." disc are still available with the black and white cover photo.
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 | USA
This is another listing of the Arditti String Quartet's "U.S.A." release which includes La Monte Young's "Five Small Pieces for String Quartet: On Remembering A Naiad" (1956)
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 | Just West Coast
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $10.59 This has a realisation of La Monte Young's work for any instruments "Sarabande" (1959) on just intonation guitar and harp.
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 | OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music by Various Artists
Buy used from: $24.84 You can get a fragment here from a recording of "Map of 49's Dream...", possibly from the Shandar or Edition X releases.
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 | Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music Special Edition 3CD + DVD
Buy new: $34.47 / Used from: $21.99 This is a recent (Oct. 2005) reissue of the above disc set including the excerpt from La Monte Young's "Map of 49's Dream..."/"Drift Study".
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 | Historical Recordings 1968-1998
This has 2 realizations of La Monte Young's "Compositions 1960 #7" which is the perfect fifth chord B - F# "to be held for a very long time". Hint: both are ca. 30 seconds, so listen to the sound clip
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 | Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Keith Potter
Buy new: $38.70 / Used from: $34.99 To fill up this list, until other recordings might become available, I have added several books that have major sections devoted to La Monte Young.
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 | Sound and Light: La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela
Buy used from: $159.04 This excellent 1996 book is a collection of articles by Terry Riley, John Schaefer, Henry Flynt, Catherine Hennix, Mitchell Clark, Kyle Gann, Ben Neill & Robert Palmer & Young/Zazeela themselves.
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 | Minimalism:Origins by Edward Strickland
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $12.00 Strickland's 1993 book provides an excellent overview of all sorts of minimalist art forms including information on La Monte Young.
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 | Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Michael Nyman
Buy new: $32.29 / Used from: $15.96 Composer Michael Nyman's 1974 book again available in this reprint edition contains several pages related to La Monte Young, especially his Fluxus movement compositions.
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 | Minimalists (20th Century Composers) by Schwarz
Buy used from: $44.82 The Schwarz book focuses mostly on Steve Reich and Philip Glass but the opening chapter is on La Monte Young and Terry Riley.
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 | American Minimal Music: LA Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass by Wim Mertens
Composer Wim Merten's book has a featured section on La Monte Young.
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