Jandek - Khartoum

2005; 8 tracks

I don't know where to start. This is my favorite Jandek record, not out of the 63 released albums, but of the 19 that I have listened to. It is surreal, it is raw, it is Jandek. Tell me what you think.

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Richard Wagner - Tristan und Isolde

Here, Karl Böhm conducts the Bayreuther Festspielorchester in a wonderful, fiery performance of Wagner's most popular opera.

Richard Wagner was a German late Romantic composer whose work was highly influential to many composers, like Mahler and Strauss. Listening to this epic musical drama (better yet, seeing the opera) is so much better than watching the lame movie.


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Clint Mansell - The Fountain OST

2006; 10 tracks

This soundtrack is amazing, though I've never seen the film. Clint Mansell's music, as well as contributions from Mogwai and the Kronos Quartet, is like nothing I have ever heard before... moving "from ambient drones to plaintive piano music to slowly percolating minimalism to jaw-dropping, terrifying strings." Yes, the quartet is an amazing addition to the already rigid, dry, epic, unrelenting atmosphere of the piano and other instruments. It is AMAZING.






Download. Nawt mine.