Drone

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If you love drone then this is your thread.

All kinds of drone music is acceptable. Here's an artist I recently discovered to start off

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaGGjiuuNtU[/youtube]

I'm a big fan of La Monte Young, one of the major pioneers of drone music:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7-hQ6TZTGk[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lim_IAOiHKM[/youtube]

Also in the modern classical tradition, Charlemagne Palestine:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOcUsm0Ehhk[/youtube]

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I just finished the Palestine track, it is awesome. Thanks for posting.

A lot of my favourite droney pieces I can't find on You Tube, and I got bored of looking.

But here's Alvin Lucier's Music On A Long Thin Wire

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgy1E4YFef8[/youtube]

Algarnas Tradgard (Garden Of Elks) Who released a fantastic album @ 1970, and another in 2001 from recordings made in 1973. The 1973 album is more straightforwards 'Prog Rock'. --This is from a live show in Stockholm from 1998, an improv version of a song from their first release.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmD9ByN9slk[/youtube]


Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno OM Riff From The Cosmic Inferno (14+minute excerpt from a much expanded version of a Gong interpretation) These guys also did an interpretation of Terry Riley's 'In C' , as well as collaborations with Gong and many others.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU1stnMN3i0[/youtube]

AMT has a LOT of live material freely available for downloading here

youtube . com / watch?v=1NSl1U_3fII

Ellen Fullman's 'long string' instrument is mind shatteringly beautiful.
Long strings, tuned in tuned in 'just intonation', and she slowly walks
up and down the length of the strings which are about 20 meters in length
with her fingers covered in rosin along the strings. Epic