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William Basinski

William Basinski (Houston, 1958), a New York-based classically-trained clarinetist and saxophonist, specializes in compositions for loops and drones. He began experimenting with compositions for piano and tape that created a melancholy ambience via looped and overdubbed melodies with Variations - A Movement in Chrome Primitive (1980), released on Variations - A Movement in Chrome Primitive (Durtro, 2002 - Die Stadt, 2004), and A Red Score in Tile (1979), released on A Red Score in Tile (3 Poplars, 2003).

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contemporary classical

dark ethereal ambient

bands i need to check out

music for work that requires attention

brought to you by the letter w

its the end of the world lets get down

Gothic

music to fall asleep to

experimental minimal electronic

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Luigi Nono

Luigi Nono (29 January 1924 - 8 May 1990) was an Italian composer. He studied at the Venice Conservatoire where he became acquainted with serialism. (He married Arnold Schönberg's daughter Nuria in 1955). He became a leading composer of instrumental and electronic music. In 1950, he attended the "Ferienkurse für neue Musik" in Darmstadt, where he met composers such as Edgard Varèse and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Works from this first period include: Polifonica-Monodica-Ritmica (1951), Epitaffio per Federico García Lorca (1952-1953), La victoire de Guernica (1954) and Liebeslied (1954).

Mike Keneally

Michael Joseph Keneally (Born December 20, 1961) is an American musician.
Born in Long Island, New York, he moved to San Diego, California at an early age and has been a fixture on the local music scene there since 1985 when he formed the local cult band, Drop Control.
Although a well established musician in his own right, Keneally is probably most well known as former Frank Zappa "stunt guitarist" and a Zappa 1988 tour band member.

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criminally underrated

power-prog

mike keneally

polyrhythms

assymmetrical note groupings

sweet and neato sounds

guitar progressive experimental

revenge of the whatever we ares

guitar air sculptures

Recommended by Zongadude

hard progressive rock

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of Monsters & Men

Brought up on a diet of his dad playing him Joni Mitchell songs on guitar, Kate Bush vinyls and James CDs in the small village of Norbury, Charles was interested in music from an early age.
After "dabbling in techno" as a 14-year-old boy under the guise of 'Desert Phonebox Incident', he was inspired to create music with real instruments after an encounter in early 2008 with Patrick Wolf, Orlando Seale and Edward Larrikin in Dylan Thomas' home of Laugharne.

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Kev Choice

This Oakland native is an up and coming M.C. as well as an accomplished pianist and musician. He fronts a 10-piece band called "Kev Choice Ensemble" and brings a diversity and creativity to live hip-hop never before seen. He is also a producer and his mostly self-produced album "The Broken Mold" will be released in 2009. He is a conscious m.c. in the veigns of Common and Nas who uses wit and creative lyricism to bring a positive and inspiring message to Hip-Hop.

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nu-bluz funky grooves in the e-lounge

bay area best

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Acoustic

The Band is not called "Acoustic" but Clayhill.
Formed in 2002, Clayhill are a band born from three very different musical backgrounds. Ali (bassist, keyboards) and Ted (guitar, keyboards) were both working on Beth Ortons Trailer Park album when they first identified former Sunhouse frontman Gavin Clark as the bands lead singer. Originally, Ali was a member of the experimental electronica band Red Snapper, while Gavin fronted Sunhouse and Ted was concentrating on his solo album Short Scenes.

Paul Hindemith

Born in Hanau in 1895, Paul Hindemith was taught the violin as a child. He entered the Hoch'sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main where he studied conducting, composition and violin under Arnold Mendelssohn and Bernhard Sekles, supporting himself by playing in dance bands and musical-comedy outfits. He led the Frankfurt Opera orchestra from 1915 to 1923 and played in the Rebner string quartet in 1921 in which he played second violin, and later the viola. In 1929 he founded the Amar Quartet, playing viola, and extensively toured Europe.

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Classical

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german

20th Century Classical

20th century classical composer

classical - 20th century

in meiner Klassik-Sammlung

music approved by the 3rd reich

not jewish

neue sachlichkeit

from fh library 120617

artists - classical - popular

music to delve into further

20th century period

drkadzija

moderne classical

contemporary classical before 1940

20th century opera composer

german opera composer

contempo

classical in all its forms

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Antonio Pappano

Antonio Pappano (born 30 December 1959) is a British conductor and pianist currently serving as music director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and l'Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

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Alexander Kobrin

Alexander Kobrin (* 1980, in Moscow) is a Russian pianist. At age five, he enrolled in the Gnessin Special School of Music in Moscow where his primary teacher was Tatiana Zelikman. When he turned eighteen, he enrolled at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, as a student of the legendary teacher, Lev Naumov, and he holds a graduate degree from that institution. As a teenager Kobrin won several youth piano competitions, but he won his first adult competition, the Glasgow International Piano Competition when he was 18.

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