Content in a Void

Coltrane, Alice and Santana, Devadip Carlos

Illuminations

… Illuminations. At this point …

Davis, Miles

Bitches Brew

… Hendrix had jammed with McLaughlin and organist Larry Young at New York’s Record Plant just a few months before both of them (along with Holland and DeJohnette) played on Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew. Little of this fervent creativity is captured to any satisfaction …

Davis, Miles

Agharta

The fire of Hendrix resurfaces in the Miles Davis Osaka and New York concerts released as Agharta, Pangaea and Dark Magus, particularly in Pete Cosey’s scorching fire streams of guitar.

Zawinul, Joe

Zawinul

Variants on the possibilities boiled up in this Afro-centrically wired cauldron were developed in solo work by the sidemen: Joe Zawinul’s eerie tone poems …

Stockhausen, Karlheinz

Telemusik

Telemusik’s peculiar stratification of low-frequency beats …

Hendrix, Jimi

Live & Unreleased: The Radio Show

An alternative, far less polished mix can be heard on a CD called Live & Unreleased: The Radio Show, where Kramer is heard describing the all-night mix as a “performance”.

Stalling, Carl

The Carl Stalling Project

In his sleevenotes for The Carl Stalling Project album […] – for evidence of cartoon music and Disney influences mutating into avant-garde pop.

Pablo, Augustus

East of the River Nile

… were recording increasingly exotic and distinctive music during the 1970s. On albums such as Perry’s Super Ape and Pablo’s East of the River Nile …

Russell, Arthur

Let’s Go Swimming

These reach their apex on the Arthur Russell 12" singles: “Let’s Go Swimming” …

Eno, Brian, and Byrne, David

My Life In the Bush of Ghosts

… My Life In the Bush of Ghosts: …

Czukay, Holger and Dammers, Rolf

Canaxis

Can’s bass player and short-wave-radio ham, Holger Czukay, had been doing this since his Canaxis album, co-produced with Rolf Dammers at the Inner Space studio, Cologne, in 1968.

Hassell, Jon, Eno, Brian

Possible Musics

“At that time I had done Possible Musics”, says Hassell, speaking to me from his home in West Hollywood.