oedipus' online complexes

composition date: 14 April 2007

from a young age, i have always tried to listen to period and geographically appropriate music whilst i read... having finally finished the unabridged audio version of Against the Day, here's a list of what comprised an important part of my experience -- and enjoyment -- of the book, which is the point of the exercise in the first place...

• The Beau Hunks: Edward MacDowell: Woodland Sketches, Opus 8 [Koch Records]
• The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra: That Demon Rag! [Dorian]
• The White Star Orchestra: Titanic - Music as Heard on the Fateful Voyage [Rhino Records]
• Tuva - Voices from Central Asia [Rounder Records]
• Kompania Takís Loukas: Musique Traditionnelles d'Épire (Folk Music from Epirius) [Auvidis]
• Echoes of the Forest - Field Recordings of Romanian Music from Transylvania [Music of the World CDT-144]
• Béla Bartók - Complete Solo Piano Music (György Sándor , piano) [Sony SK 68276/68277/68278/68279]
• Sviraj Trubo 2 (a compilation locally produced in Serbia by an unidentified label)
• Ukranian Cello: Works of Lisogub, Kossenko, Shtogarenko & Ishchenko (Julia Pantelyat, cello; Dmitrij Manelis, piano) [Dorian DIS-80122]

as well as WFMU's alternating monday evening shows, broadcast at 7pm local (NJ) time:

1. The Antique Phonograph Music Program: cylinders and discs played on acoustic, wind-up players; and
2. Thomas Edison's Attic

both hour-long shows are available from WFMU as podcasts...