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genre:Avant-Garde
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May 3
The Diva's Apartment
Diamanda Galás · 1994 Spin it Again - She trained as a concert pianist and then decided the voice was the more dangerous instrument.
genre:Avant-Garde
Apr 23
Camouflage
Gastr del Sol · 1995 Spin it Again - The guitarist from Jesus Lizard and the engineer who would later make Wilco's 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' made this first — and it sounds like it.
genre:Avant-Garde
Apr 19
Fear
John Cale · 1974 Spin it Again - The Velvet Underground's other founder made the record that explains why fear and art rock were always the same conversation.
genre:Avant-Garde
Apr 5
Free Jazz
Ornette Coleman · 1960 Spin it Again - Two quartets, one session, zero agreement, and somehow Coleman made that the whole point.
genre:Avant-Garde
Apr 5
The Shape of Jazz to Come
Ornette Coleman · 1959 Spin it Again - Coleman walked in with a plastic saxophone and quietly ended an argument that had been going on since bebop started.
genre:Avant-Garde
Apr 4
Trout Mask Replica
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band · 1969 Spin it Again - Don Van Vliet recorded it in a house where the band wasn't allowed to sleep, and somehow that's exactly what it sounds like.
genre:Rock
Apr 4
Moondog
Moondog · 1969 Spin it Again - A blind man in a Viking helmet stood on a Manhattan street corner for twenty years and still made something quieter and stranger than anything recorded inside a studio that decade.
genre:Classical
Mar 30
Journey in Satchidananda
Alice Coltrane · 1971 Spin it Again - Alice Coltrane buried her husband two years before this and came back with a harp, a tambura, and a swami, and somehow that's the least strange thing about it.
genre:Avant-Garde