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This is turning out to be a tougher search than I expected! It seems nearly no-one produces records as a sound-furniture that is expected to live in the real world. Nearly everyone tries to demand, capture and hostage our entire attention (the spoiled little darlings) to the exclusion of anything else that may be there, in the sounds of that space, where we are, then, while we listen. Its as if they cannot bear the thought that we may already have a sound environment which they did not create -- even "new age environmental" insists on giving me THEIR frogs, crickets, waterfalls and thunderstorms!

But that is not the case. Is it.

Such records-objects as sounds-in-themselves must exist; I'm hoping you can help me find them :)

Even the John Cage tribute, A Chance Operation, while assembled by chance operations, is a fixed piece of relentless sound covering every inch/second of the available canvas. It may coexist with other sounds, but grants them no space in the programme.
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Day 4 of listening to my entire CD collection...

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19. Coldplay - Brothers and Sisters

Three song EP that came out a year before Parachutes. It's not hard to hear why they were picked up by a major label based on early material. Also not hard to see that they were going to be huge.

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20. Einojuhani Rautavaara - Cantus Articus

Cantus Articus is a concerto for birds and orchestra. Taped bird noises interwoven with live orchestra. Sounds lame, sounds gimmicky, but it's not. I've seen this live in concert (thank you Alabama Symphony Orchestra) and was blown away. Needless to say, it rubs the traditionalists the wrong way (and it was awesome to hear grumbling and complaining in the concert hall), but this is very serious music and worth paying attention to.

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@ Tokyo Cotton Club
http://uomo.shueisha.co.jp/cottonclub/

Sorry, I don't like music like that.
I just wanted to see a spanish model, Andres Velencoso!!
Maki Takemitsu (daughter of a great composer Toru Takemitsu) appeared, too.

Jeffrey Osborne

Toru Takemitsu "A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden" (cheap ass NAXOS edition)
Arvo Part "Orchestral Works" (cheap ass NAXOS edition)
Supernature

still on order:

Various Artists "Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisted" (english language cover versions of Serge Gainsbourg songs by Cat Power, Javis Cocker etc")
Felt Mountain

Recently I discovered the page of some music school which makes available on it's site the recordings of it's Orchestra.

They have some cool songs available and the quality of some recordings is quite acceptable.

http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/584
http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/743

there are also gulbenkian's solists virtual CDs for downloading here (string *ets):
http://www.musica.gulbenkian.pt/?cds_virtuais/2000_2001_3.html
http://www.musica.gulbenkian.pt/?cds_virtuais/2000_2001_2.html
http://www.musica.gulbenkian.pt/?cds_virtuais/2000_2001_1.html
http://www.musica.gulbenkian.pt/?cds_virtuais/1999_2000_1.html
http://www.musica.gulbenkian.pt/?cds_virtuais/1999_2000_2.html

and this two wonderfull sites:
http://www.classiccat.net/
http://pianosociety.com/

One I love is their (Peabody Syhphonic Orchestra) interpretation of Rimsky-Korsakov's Shehrahzade. But there you can find many other famous pieces freely available to download: I'll post the list for the first to links here:
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Not all inclusive or organized in any way:

Alien Sex Fiend
Arnold Schoenberg
Artie Shaw
Asmahan
Autechre
Bauhaus
Bela Bartok
Benny Goodman
Bernard Herrmann
Janis Joplin
Bjork
Blondie
Bob Wills and His Texas PLayboys
Charles Mingus
Charlie Parker
Christian Death
Clan of Xymox
Cocteau Twins
Coil
Count Basie
Duke Ellington
Curtis Roads
David Bowie
Dead Can Dance
Dead Kennedys
Desireless
Devo
Duran Duran
Edgard Varese
Echo & the Bunnymen
Edith Piaf
Ennio Morricone
Erik Satie
Fela Kuti
Fluke
Frankie Smith
Front 242
Gabriel Fauré
Serge Gainsbourg
George Crumb
Glenn Miller
Gyorgy Ligeti
Hank Williams
Horacio Vaggione
Iannis Xenakis
Iggy Pop
Igor Stravinsky
Jacques Brel
Jane's Addiction
Jean-Claude Risset
Jimmy Dorsey
Hedwig And The Angry Inch
John Coltrane
John Zorn
Johnny Cash
Johnny Halliday
Jonathan Harvey
Joy Division
Juno Reactor
K.M.F.D.M.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Kraftwerk
Lard
Laurie Anderson
Layali Zaman
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