Music
John Fahey kicked off a long-running micro-tradition of American Primitive holiday efforts way back in 1968. Frozen Fingers is playlist of wintry music in that mode—an alternative to the treacly seasonal music that is inescapable this time of year.
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Ernest Hood’s 1975 proto-ambient masterpiece combines idyllic field recordings with washes of synth and zither. The lp—reissued by Freedom to Spend/RVNG Intl. —”illustrates the relationship between the specific and the universal,” writes Jason P. Woodbury.
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Music
Mellotron Variations—the new collaborative project from John Medeski, Pat Sansone, Jonathan Kirkscey, and Robby Grant—sounds like it could have scored an imaginary, chimerical Stanley Kubrick film.
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