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Edited by rushfan4 - September 15 2008 at 10:05

James wrote: Nice list, Adam.  Are you really into minimalism right now? I'm wondering if you know much about the 1960s British contemporary scene? I'm thinking of Cornelius Cardew, Scratch Orchestra, Michael Nyman, Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr, John Ogdon and Elgar Howarth. Plus later artists, such as Steve Martland. If you do, recommendations would be appreciated.

i hadn't actually though about it, but now looking at my list it seems i am. i'm a little obsessed with Feldman at the moment. i've near twenty albums by him, but my lust for more seems insatiable, which is very unusual for me considering i usually only purchase a carefully selected number of discs per artist.

h'mmm... the sixty british scene. truthfully i don't know much. i know some of Cardew well, mainly his work Treatise released on Hathut. he was good friends with Feldman and Tilbury, come to think about it, i think it was Cardew who introduced Tilbury to Feldman; thank god he did. obviously he featured on the early AMM recordings, but his music ideologies were kind of heading at a tangent to AMM's. funnily enough listening to Treatise - which i considering to be an intriging piece - i can see much of his influence shining through in works such as AMMMusic. His solo work is a lot more precise, which is not surprising considering it is modern composition rather than improvised. it is a lot quiter, eluding more the Feldman school of thought. I hope some of that made sense, just finished writing an essay and eight cups of coffee later my brain is not functioning properly.

heard of 'The Scratch Orchestra' have not listen to them though. Sounds like something Mutant Sounds would post. as for the other composers, the names don't mean much. it has been a since listening to Steve Martland, i should dig that album i have up again. for recent music i'm far more knowledgable on the improvised scene.

while i was up in sydney:

Morton Feldman - String Quartet (II) Ives Ensemble (4 disc)
Morton Feldman - Crippled Symmetry
Morton Feldman - First Recordings: 1950: The Tuefan Ensemble Philipp Vandre
Morton Feldman - Aki Takahashi play Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman - For Samuel Beckett
Morton Feldman - Composing By Numbers, The Graphic Scores 1950-67, The Barton Workshop
Morton Feldman - Complete Music for Violin and Piano
Morton Feldman - The Viola in My Life [Cikada Ensemble/ Norwegian Radio Orchestra/ Eggen]
Greg Kelley - Self-Hate Index
Annette Krebs/Toshimaru Nakamura - Siyu
David Lacey/Paul Vogel - The British Isles
Kaffe Matthews/Andrea Neumann/Sachiko M - In Case Of Fire Take The Stairs
Toshiya Tsunoda - Scenery of Decalcomania
AMM - Fine
Sachiko M/Sean Meehan - untitled

Yesterday bought, when it came out:

Metallica - Death Magnetic



and

Nightwish - Oceanborn

Went shopping today. (No Deep Purple to be found though, sorry Antoine and Pablo )

I'm still waiting for my Wayside order... no idea where's it got to... but in the meantime, I've ordered the following:

The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet - Saxhouse
The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet - make it funky god
The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet - Sunshine Bundtcake
The Tiptons - Tsunami
Tiptons Sax Quartet & Drums - Drive
Tiptons Sax Quartet - Laws of Motion