How about the wierdest music you know?

I'll start.

Some weeks ago I was listening to The Thistle and Shamrock
program of Celtic music on NPR.

They had an act on that I can only describe as Bagpipe
Rock. What a trip. I recorded a fragment as an aircheck.
The name of this act is The Maelstrom Quartet. The maelstrom
of sound is demonstrable and I'm wondering what all that noise
would sound like on a good set of pipes or that new 'tallboy'
design shown from Madisound down in thre Array Speakers group.

Maelstrom Quartet: as a live act it must knock your socks off.

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• http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000009NUG/qid=1101493643/sr=8-6/ref=pd_csp_6/103-0235557-8003818?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

Reminds me of Eugene Chadbourne from "Shockabilly" playing
a tuned garden rake. Prob'ly more in the performance
than music in that.

I did find Rasputina located on the shelf at the
local Best Buy. Still looking for some samples to play.

1. Nouthong Phimvilayphone, "Visions of the Orient". Sure you've heard Indian music, and sure you've heard Balinese. But have you heard Laotian music? My review of the cd is at Amazon, so you can read it there. On the other hand, my best friend calls it "pain music".

2. Jah Wobble, "Molam Dub". Now go one step further. Take Laotian music and add some electric bass and rock/reggae sensibility. Most people run from the room when I put this on.

3. Neil Rolnick, "A Robert Johnson Sampler". This is a single c. 15 minute work on Volume 7 of the CDCM [Consortium to Distribute Computer Music] Computer Music Series on Centaur Records. In it, the composer, a professor at RPI, takes snippets of Robert Johnson recordings and manipulates, mutates and ultimately transforms them using various technologies I don't pretend to understand. When I first heard this piece I was stunned, and I remain stunned today. My friends are stunned that I listen to it. Link below.

4. Boards of Canada, "Geogaddi". I'm in a distinct minority in believing this to be the best BOC release.

5. Mum, "Finally We Are No One".

6. Bjork, "Medulla".

• Link to Centaur Records CDCM Series

Mentioning Bjork up there reminds me of a fil recommendation
which should go in here: Dancer In The Dark which is a movie and,
ostensibly a musical as well.

The thing I like to much about Dancer In The Dark is casting.
Bjork as the ingenue and ok with that, but Catherine Deneuve (sp?)
as a factory worker in a ... babushka or headscarf as they wear
in Germany East and West... was genius. Catherien Deneuve, aside
from all the jokes on the old tonight show starred as the ingenue in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort... both written by Micchelle LeGrand as jazz operas. Gene Kelly is featured in the second film.

So to see Deneuve gracefully go into what is a senior
character said so much about the art and style of the actress
herself.

And in world music, to your list I would add Ofra Haza,
a Yemeni vocalist who is a pop star in the manner of Bjork, I think
over in the Middleeast. I was surprised to hear the Ofra Haza vocals
in a period French film called "Queen Margot." btw: Queen Margot
is a lot more than a period romance, so don't let the box art
fool you.

Thanks for the tip. I'm checking Ofra Haza out over on Amazon and see she has a number of discs. Do you have a suggestion as to where to start?

Sorry no. I played some world music when I was getting promos
from record co's through the local university station years back.

Was watching an older vid called "I'm Not Rappaport" with Ossie
Davis and Walter Mathau. At one point in the background, a
car radio is playing Petula Clark's "Downtown" in Hindi.

Which reminds me, "Monsoon Wedding" is pretty good.