I Jim O'rourke, Oren Ambarchi, Keiji Haino

The Dresdner Philharmonie, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden and conductor Daniel Oren present Verdi’s masterpiece La Traviata, together with a stellar cast including René Barbera as Alfredo, Lester Lynch as Germont, and world star soprano Lisette Oropesa as Violetta.

La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela - The Theatre Of Eternal Music: Dream House 78’17” (1973) {Vinyl, Shandar 83 510 rel 1974}
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© 1974 Shandar | 83 510
Classical / Modern Classical / Minimalism / Avant-Garde / Experimental

An important and early part of La Monte Young’s succinct, near-sacred catalogue of solo, longform recordings to legitimately reach vinyl (you could count ‘em on one hand!), this pressing of Dream House 78’ 17” is an understandably precious and ineffably wonderful thing of beauty.

Ruins is a Japanese prog-rock/punk/noise/fusion duo, formed by drummer/vocalist Tatsuya Yoshida and a bass guitarist (in the course of 20 years the group changed four bassists). Since the departure of Sasaki Hisashi in 2004, Tatsuya proceeds playing solo with only a drum-kit as Ruins alone. Formed in 1985, the group was intended to be a power trio; after a handful of rehearsals as a trio, the band abandoned the guitar and chose to move forward as a 2-piece.

Wedding the experimental free-folk of "New Weird America" to the more conventionally song-focused SF freak-folk movement, Six Organs of Admittance mastermind Ben Chasny comes into his own on this, his first-ever studio-recorded LP. Richly textured and three-dimensional, School of the Flower straddles the line between moody ambient madness and vintage sunlit psych-folk.

Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio - The Creation of the Universe (2008) [2CD] {Sister Ray}
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© 2008 Sister Ray Recordings | SR 001CD
Rock / Experimental Rock / Avantgarde / Noise

Lou Reed has a new album out although you might not know about it yet. Metal Machine Trio: The Creation of the Universe is an instrumental double album recorded over two nights at Los Angeles' Redcat. These two special live concert recordings of non-vocal music featuring Lou on guitar and electronics, Ulrich Krieger on tenor sax and live-electronics, and Sarth Calhoun on live processing and Fingerboard Continuum.

Japanese female singer-songwriter whose work has a whisper-thin acid-folk quality to it. Various connections with Tokyo underground rock bands like Boris and The Stars.