Sun Ra · 1963 Spin it Again - Sun Ra in 1963, before most people had a framework for what he was doing, pointing a microphone at the part of the room where the sound goes to die.

Sun Ra · 1973 Spin it Again - Sun Ra decided the cosmos needed a bandleader and nobody in 1973 had a convincing argument against it.

Bill Evans · 1958 Spin it Again - Bill Evans alone at the piano in 1958, holding one bass note for eleven minutes while the right hand just wanders, and somehow that's enough.

Emmylou Harris · 2003 Spin it Again - Harris strips it down to wood and wire and reminds you that quiet is its own kind of pressure.

Gillian Welch · 2001 Spin it Again - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings in a room with two guitars, taking their time, and somehow that's enough.

Keith Jarrett · 1975 Spin it Again - Keith Jarrett sat down at a bad piano in Cologne with no plan and played for an hour, and it turns out that was enough.

Henryk Górecki · 1992 Spin it Again - Górecki wrote this in 1992 and if you've ever sat alone at 3am with nothing left to argue about, you already know what it sounds like.

Arvo Pärt · 1978 Spin it Again - Pärt stripped piano and violin down to the kind of silence that makes you realize most music is just noise filling a room.

Arvo Pärt · 1984 Spin it Again - Arvo Pärt figured out that silence was doing most of the work and just wrote around it.

David Bowie · 1997 Spin it Again - Bowie doing Tibetan chant-influenced art rock in '97 while everyone was waiting for him to be irrelevant, and he almost proved them right, almost.

Charles Mingus · 1963 Spin it Again - Six musicians playing like they're mourning something they can't name, recorded in one day because Mingus knew it wouldn't get better than that.

Weather Report · 1975 Spin it Again - Zawinul spent 1975 making jazz feel like it had somewhere to be, and for once it did.

Judee Sill · 1973 Spin it Again - She wrote the orchestral arrangements herself while on parole, and you can hear every bit of that in the strings.

Angélique Kidjo · 2021 Spin it Again - Kidjo handed a young Tuareg guitarist the keys and then sang over whatever he built like she'd been waiting her whole life for exactly that kind of trouble.

Tinariwen · 2017 Spin it Again - Saharan blues recorded in the Mojave Desert with Kurt Vile sitting in, and somehow it sounds exactly like it should.

Tinariwen · 2019 Spin it Again - Saharan blues recorded in the Mauritanian desert with a handful of American and Spanish guests, and somehow the sand gets into the speakers.

Leon Thomas · 1973 Spin it Again - Leon Thomas yodeling over spiritual jazz like he's trying to contact something the rest of us stopped believing in a long time ago.

Pharoah Sanders · 1994 Spin it Again - Pharoah Sanders in his sixties, still finding the part of the tenor saxophone that sounds like it's coming from somewhere you can't quite name.

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.

John Coltrane · 1964 Spin it Again - The Coltrane quartet in the year before everything broke open, playing like they already heard what was coming and decided to take their time anyway.