The Rare Music Curator presents:

The Rare Music Curator presents Podcast #18
I Want To Be The Drone
60:00
Photo: Ellen Fullman

This month I have selected artists that use drone as a vehicle for their musical works. Not all of the artists represented here are strictly drone artists but the pieces here have an hypnotic buzz to them that seems to cross musical boundaries. I also “blended” many of the pieces together so that when one tune was coming to an end I would fade the other song in and play them both for a few minutes. The quality is generally pretty good here although there are some rough spots and hiss in places. Most of these are excerpts of longer works.

As far as I know all of these pieces are unreleased although I am not entirely certain about the Oliveros or Terry Riley works. The Curator does not condone the sale of this material at any time and suggests that you support your favorite artists by buying their commercially available products.

1. Ellen Fullman- Sean Meehan “unknown title”
Instal Festival, Glasgow, Scotland 13 Oct 2006

2. Stuart Dempster “Digeridervish”
New Music America Fest, San Francisco 1981
Stuart Dempster: trombone, digerido, voice

3. Tangerine Dream “unknown title”
Location and date unknown

4. Robert Fripp “The First“
The Kitchen, NYC, 5 Feb 1978

5. Bill Laswell “unknown title”
Location and date unknown

6. Supersilent “unknown title”
Purcell Room, London, 16 Nov 2000

7. Ovary Lodge “Gentle One Says Hello”
Location and date unknown, probably mid 70s
Keith Tippett: piano
Harry Miller: bass
Frank Perry: percussion, voice, sheng, Hsiao
Julie Tippetts: voice, recorder

9. Sachiko “unknown title”
Instal Fest, 15 Oct 2006
This is not the sine wave-empty sampler “Sachiko M“ but a full group from Japan.

10. Brian Eno “from My Squelchy Life”
Location and date unknown

11. Rafael Toral “unknown title”
Philadelphia, 7 Oct 1999

12. Fripp-Eno “unknown title
London, 1975

13. Terry Riley “unknown title”
Location and date unknown, possibly late 60s
Terry Riley: soprano sax

14. LaMonte Young “Day Of The Antler”
New York City, 1964

15. Tangerine Dream “unknown title”
WDR radio, Germany 25 Nov 1972

16. LaMonte Young “Drift Study”
New York City, probably early 1960s

17. Ellen Fullman-Sean Meehan “unknown title”
Instal Fest, Glasgow, Scotland, 13 Oct 2006
Ellen Fullman: Long String Instrument
Sean Meehan: snare drum
(This is a later segment from the first number that begins this program)