Music
Recommended Records
Title: Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes, Sarabandes
Artist: Erik Satie
Label: Brilliant Classics
Released: 2008
Piano: Hakon Austbo
Never heard Gnossiennes like this
Title: Floating Into The Night
Artist: Julee Cruise
Label: Warner Bros.
Released: 1989
10 dark & sweet tiny diamonds
Timeless.
Title: Maximizing The Audience
Artist: Wim Mertens
Label: Usura/EMI
Released: 1984
Minimalism in 5 big circles
Title: Goldberg Variations BWV 988
Artist: J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations played by Glenn Gould
Label: Sony classical
Released: 1981
Unique interpretation by Glenn Gould
Simply Outstanding!
Title: Sonatas & Interludes For Prepared Piano
Artist: John Cage
Label: Wergo
Released: 1993
Early experimental works for prepared piano (1946-1948)
Performer: Joshua Pierce
Title: The Blue Notebooks
Artist: Max Richter
Label: 130701
Released: 2004
Max Richter “dresses” poetically Franz Kafka’s The Blue Octavo Notebooks and Czesław Miłosz’s Hymn of the Pearl and Unattainable Earth
Title: Taxi Driver (OST)
Artist: Bernard Herrmann
Label: Arista
Released: 1976
The composer of expressionistic “Psycho” soundtrack gives his last magic touch
Title: The Ghost Sonata
Artist: Tuxedomoon
Label: Cramboy
Released: 1991
Difficult and Strange for most ears
Unique, trully undiscovered masterpiece
Title: Symphony No. 10 in E Minor Op. 93
Artist: Dmitri Shostakovich
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Released: 1981
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan
Title: Unplugged in New York
Artist: Nirvana
Label: DGC
Released: 1994
Unrepeatable moments in New York
Title: Ο Μεγάλος Ερωτικός (O Megalos Erotikos)
Artist: Manos Hatzidakis
Label: Lyra/Notos
Released: 1972
An unbreakable hymn in lyrism
11 timeless moments
Title: Radioaxiom: A Dub Transmission
Artist: Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell
Label: Palm Pictures
Released: 2001
Bass: The Final Frontier
Bass & low frequencies elegy
Title: Gling-Gló
Artist: Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar
Label: One Little Indian
Released: 1990
Icelandic influential jazz with great vocals
Music for childrens of any age
Title: Glassworks
Artist: Philip Glass
Label: CBS Records/Sony Classical
Released: 1982
From Allmusic.com:
“Glassworks is the most pleasant craftwork ever from the great minimalist exploiter — six warm pieces that approach the spirit of minimalist pioneer Erik Satie”
Title: Ting
Artist: Nits
Label: Columbia
Released: 1992
An undiscovered masterpiece
Title: Porgy and Bess (Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong)
Artist: George and Ira Gershwin’s
Label: Verve
Released: 1957
The famous Gershwin’s opera in it’s best version
Excellent performance from two giants
Title: …I Care Because You Do
Artist: Richard D. James (Aphex Twin)
Label: Warp Records
Released: 1995
Never again these soundscapes
Title: Ballades, Impromtus, Preludes – Bella Davidovich
Artist: Frédéric Chopin
Label: Brilliant Classics
Released: 2007
An unforgettable piano experience with Bella Davidovich
Title: Closer
Artist: Joy Division
Label: Factory Records
Released: 1980
Strange textures in many layers
Martin Hannett’s masterpiece
Title: The Ipcress File (OST)
Artist: John Barry
Label: Decca
Released: 1965
A new cookbook for film music
Title: The Chess Box
Artist: Etta James
Label: Chess
Released: 2000
Singing Lessons!
Title: Blood
Artist: This Mortal Coil
Label: 4AD
Released: 1991
How to watch the world in a closed-up way
21 small (master)pieces
Title: Soundtrack from the Film More
Artist: Pink Floyd
Label: Columbia/EMI UK, Harvest Records US
Released: 1969
Some great ideas in a small package
Experimental and Avant-garde
Title: Till the End of Time
Artist: Stephan Micus
Label: ECM/Japo
Released: 1978
Spiritual universe with oriental spices
Just Unique
Title: N-Plants
Artist: Biosphere
Label: Touch
Released: 2011
Some great journeys in ambient space
A good exercise for the speakers
Title: Scheherezade, Capriccio Espagnol
Artist: Rimsky-Korsakov
Label: Deutsche Grammophone
Released: 1988
Joseph Silverstein – Violin
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa – Conductor
Göteborg Symphonieorchester
Neeme Järvi – Conductor
Title: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (OST)
Artist: Henry Mancini+Johnny Mercer
Label: RCA Victor Records
Released: 1962
A great movie, a greater soundtrack
Henry Manchini’s perfect timing
Title: Maggot Brain
Artist: Funkadelic
Label: Westbound Records
Released: 1971
Some colorful musical elements
Title: Spheres
Artist: Keith Jarrett
Label: ECM
Released: 1976
Keith Jarrett behind church organ
Title: Low Birth Weight
Artist: Piano Magic
Label: Rocket Girl
Released: 1999
Experimental alternative rock/folk/ambient
Lyrical with strange soundscapes
Title: Lady in Satin
Artist: Billie Holiday
Label: Columbia
Released: 1958
A lifetime in a single record