• Ralph Towner Batik

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Your posts are always interesting and often wonderful.don't burn out! I don't think we'd know what to do without you.

I still discover and rediscover films, streets, and trains expressly because of your blog. Some ECMs I have returned to repeatedly with great pleasure, and recommended, lent, and not infrequently re-purchased: 1. Gesualdo: TENEBRAE (Hilliard) 2. Dave Holland/Derek Bailey 3. Chick Corea: MUSIC FOR CHILDREN 4. Werner Pirchner: EU 5. Gavin Bryars: THREE VIENNESE DANCERS 6.

Paul Hindemith: SONATAS FOR VIOLA ALONE 7. Thomas Tallis: LAMENTATIONS. Perotin (Hilliard) 9. Paul Giger: SCHATTENWELT, and maybe also CHARTRES 10. Heinz Holliger: SCARNDANELLI-ZYKLUS 11. William Byrd (Hilliard) 12. Federico Mompou: MUSICA CALLADA (a supreme favorite, recently) 13.

Schubert: TRIO IN ES-DUR And on and on. I have reservations about what seems like an overproduced staidness that mars the approach for me, but that is a common argument and is countered often enough. And I could easily name another 30 or 40 albums that are at least as essential as those above.those have simply been spinning in my head this past few years. And all the items on your list (of the Bleys, I have a special fondness for the solo OPEN, TO LOVE recording, though Bill Frisell's playing on the two 'quartet' records is a thing to behold.gorgeous; nothing like his last 15 years as much mellower fare.

Ralph Towner Batik

And the Jimmy Giuffre 2cd set (1961), which is excellent in every way, as soulful as it is rarified.