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Ljudcirklar - Minimal Music

A quick and totally incomplete overview of the minimalist subgenre "drone" music.

Ep. 1

A quick and totally incomplete overview of the minimalist subgenre "drone" music!



Featured music:  

PAULINE OLIVEROS - LEAR (1989) 

Eliane RADIGUE - TRILOGY DE LA MORT (intermediate) 

LA MONTE YOUNG - COMPOSITION 1960 no. 7 

LAMONTE YOUNG - DREAM HOUSE (except from THEATER OF ETERNAL MUSIC)  

CHRISTINA VANTZOU - VALLEY DRONE 

Ram Narayan- Mishra Des

RADIK TYULUSH-oskus urag 

Krzysztof Penderecki- SONG OF THE CHERUBIM 

MEREDITH MONK-UNISON (1986) 

ROBERT AIKI AUBERY LOWE - RESONANCE PERFORMANCE 2014 

VELVET UNDERGROUND-LOOP 1964 

VELVET UNDERGROUND - VENUS IN FURS 

LOU REED - METAL MACHINE MUSIC 

JESUS + MARY CHAIN - NEVER UNDERSTAND 

NIRVANA - HEART SHAPED BOX 

SUNN O))) - MOCKING SOLEMNITY 

KALI MALONE - SPECTACLE OF RITUAL 

ELLEN ARKBRO - FOR ORGAN AND BRASS 

MARIA W HORN - EPISTASIS 

EMERALDS - SOLAR BRIDGE 

STEVE REICH - MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS 

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