So one of the ones I got is the Ensemble of the Bulgarian Republic
playing traditional Bulgarian music.
I have another collection that's kind of like this.
Has really nice bagpipes and chanting
I haven't heard this particular one before but I think it'll be good.
I'll do one. I got the recent Steve Gunn & The Black Twig Pickers release.
Steve Gunn is like a finger-picking guitar player, in the vein of
Robbie Basho, John Fahey, or Jack Rose
and I'm a huge fan of that style of guitar work.
So this one I'm really excited to buy. This is Lonnie Holley.
I've been listening to this record a ton.
He's been known as an outsider artist for awhile.
He makes these really weird sculptures and
and recently put out some records of music.
The music is this cross between
blues or soul, kind of, and weird minimal electronic.
Raga vibes too.
Yeah, it's super spiritual and he's like a really interesting character.
Greg, the drummer in Liturgy picked this out.
The guy's name is Kasa Tessema and he's an Ethipoian jazz musician.
I've never heard it. Greg is a huge fan
but I'm a big fan of Mulatu Astatke and all the other guys
from the Ethiopian jazz scene in the 70s.
This is Honegger, a composer I like a lot.
Kind of like early/mid-20th century modernist.
I've never heard this piece it's called 'Judith.' It's a biblical music drama.
The plot seemed kind of cool.
The ironic demand is that Judith must steal herself to do a man's work
while in order to accomplish this, she must show herself at her most womanly.
Her faith is in Jehovah, but it is not the kind of faith which waits for miracles.
Rather, she must act in order to stave off the massacre, rape, and enslavement of her city
hoping that this act is also God's will.
Yeah, pretty serious.
In that vein, I got this John Taverner CD.
He's a recently deceased British composer, part of the holy minimalism school.
Extremely beautiful choral compositions.
Steve Halpern, sort of a new age O.G.
One of the first people to make ambient music with good vibes.
Stephen Halpern is one of the pioneers of new age music.
The purpose is to bring an individual into a state of balance into a state of well-being
and be very pleasurable, very listenable.
In northern California he writes a different kind of soul music.
This one I'm really stoked about.
Lee Hazlewood, 'Trouble is a Lonesome Town.'
Homerian epic concept album about a town called Trouble.
Non-stop narrative juice, just the best.
I think it might be my favorite record in the world.
This one's cool too, it's Berio.
He's kind of an experimental classical composer.
It's a really good piece, 'Sinfonia.' It's kind of like choral ensemble.
I buy a lot of classical vinyl because it's super, super cheap
because no one wants it really. There's not a market for it.
I have this one too.
Gene Clark was a member of the Byrds, he's my favorite Byrd man.
I was actually looking for a Gene Clark's 'White Light'
which is an incredible, incredible country album.
But this one's pretty good too.
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