Drone Again

I'm so back onto drones. Was I ever off drones? I'm feeling that wave of "why would I ever listen to or make any other kind of music" again. Here's a short list of great drones:

1. ghosting - their current myspace song.


2. the dream syndicate (lamonte young, tony conrad, et al) - 2 iv 64


3. lamonte young - dreamhouse 78'17


4. lamonte young - the melodic version (1984) of the second dream of the high-tension line stepdown transformer from the four dreams of china (1962)


5. tony conrad - pythagoras, refusing to cross the bean field at his back, is dispatched...

I also got a copy of Sun Circle, which is pretty much a cover album of Lamonte Young's rare Black Album by Greg Davis and Zach Wallace. I was SO excited about it when I ordered it. I need to listen to it again, but I wasn't super impressed on the first listen. There's a glacial-speed development that happens in lamonte young's best stuff, it almost becomes vertical - time stands on one end and begins to move straight upward. Sun Circle on first listen does a great job of apeing the aesthetic of the Dreamhouse stuff, but it just felt flat to me. I was in a terrible mood when I put it on though, so that might be it.