Monday 26 November 2012

Australia: Songs Of The Aborigines And Music Of Papua New Guinea

"Australia is a collection of thirty-six songs, twenty-nine of them Australian and the last seven from Papua New Guinea. The music is arranged in blocks with twenty-two tracks from the Cape York Peninsula, followed by seven from Elcho Island and then a six of traditional music from the Daru area in the south of Papua New Guinea"
Recorded in 1963. Out of print.

Bunggul Dance Song is from the Aboriginal Australian recordings, Two Flutes is from the Papua New Guinea recordings.

Friday 2 November 2012

The Theatre Of Eternal Music - Day Of The Holy Mountain

The Theatre Of Eternal Music also known as The Dream Syndicate were a drone group from the early/mid 1960's. 
La Monte Young/Marian Zazeela/Tony Conrad/John Cale/Terry Jennings/Angus Maclise
Long celestial drones, halfway through into rapidly flowing saxophone and percussion over voice/violin/viola/saxophone drones.
Recorded on the 2nd into the 3rd of April 1964. Extremely rare bootleg CD.
1:27:12

Excerpt 1 is from the first half, excerpt 2 is from the second.