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Readers recommend: minimalist songs – results | Musique Non Stop

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Thursday, July 9, 2015

Readers recommend: minimalist songs – results

The Roots to James Brown, AC/DC to Sigur Rós, RR regular nilpferd strips back a mass of magical minimalism into a pared down playlist from last week’s topic

Last week the mercury level was as high as the quality of the suggestions on RR. Isolated in my stone garret, I’ve spent my time polishing the playlist down to a molecule-thick wafer of sound. Here it is.

We’ll tune up with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Model 11 is part of his Stimmung and contains “overtone” singing, which links back to ancient practices. But the inspiration for the piece was apparently provided by the composer’s sleeping son, humming as he dozed.

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by Nilpferd via Electronic music | The Guardian

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