After some time...

Wow, it has been quite a while since my last post. Among other things, I have been maintaining a new day job as a government pawn (in the public health sector), applying to a graduate program in music therapy (at Loyola University New Orleans, one of the first schools to offer an M.M.T. degree), playing in two bands - including Dongles, a wacky math rock duo - and practicing tabla as much as time allows. Seeing as these things have added up to a hectic life, I have regretfully been avoiding any blog posts (also in part because my current readership is at zero and seemingly approaching negative numbers).

But I want to get this up and running again. A few of my first posts were long, academically-inclined essays on world recordings. While I would like to add to those here and there, I also want to contribute my thoughts (as the subtitle of the blog implies) on all sorts of other 'sonorous matters.'

So, for now, here's a relatively brief list of recordings I could not live without (in no particular order):

Magma, KA
The Who, Who's Next
Miles Davis, Big Fun
Ruins, Tzomborgha
John Coltrane, Coltrane's Sound
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
Remember Shakti - The Believer
Pearl Jam, Ten
Stockhausen, Stimmung
Billy Cobham, Spectrum
Popol Vuh, Einsjager und Siebenjager
Steve Reich, Different Trains
Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians
Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy
Philip Glass, North Star
Ayuo, Red Moon
Radiohead, Amnesiac
Charles Mingus, Let My Children Hear Music
Frank Zappa, Hot Rats
Frank Zappa, Absolutely Free
Tool, Lateralus
The Doors, The Best of The Doors
Mario Bauza, The Tanga Suite
Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream
The Beatles, The Beatles (White Album)
Aphex Twin, Druqks
Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
Sufjan Stevens, Come On Feel the Illinoise
The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Birds of Fire
Beethoven, Ninth Symphony
Fela Kuti, Expensive Shit/He Miss Road
Rage Against the Machine, Rage Against the Machine

In some of the coming posts, I'll try to look at a few of these individually and discover why they are as meaningful - on both objective and personal levels - as they are.

For anyone in New Orleans, there is a combined Dongles & 3Brane show at the Outer Banks Bar on Palmyra St this Sunday (3/28/10) at 18:00.