Drones: bad = "boring" / good = "hypnotic" / new drone music review ideas please

drone is such a good musical effect. and so simple. so pleasant. so versatile.

there are a lot of good drones.
golly do i love drones.

This collection of four multi-tonal drone collages from veteran composer and multi-media artist Phil Niblock is never quite a collection of drone pieces, nor is it boring. Instead, Touch Food provides four monoliths of opaque sonic trickery.

Niblock’s music is one of expanse. Essentially, it is nothing, static, a panorama beyond visible fields of vision and regardless of time. Corporeally, Niblock’s compositions are a music of cycles; time scales concurrent and phased, living; dead, and undead sound – the aural expression of re-contextualizing the space-time continuum. Fundamentally, these pieces are the materials of music: sound and time. Niblock’s minimalist works suspend multiple tones in solid layers building a dense fog of sound over significant expanses of time. The result is empirically everything and nothing at once.

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You feel the piece develop from the gut. Despite the primary stasis, and singularity of tone, a ghost of a theme plays out; although, its very existence remains so ephemeral it is debatable. It all depends on how you accept faith. As the piece develops, it slowly builds in volume while amazingly maintaining density. From its inception, it seems Niblock has expanded the tones to critical mass, building tremendous chrome clouds varying only in luminosity. As the saxophone swells, morphing in manner seemingly unheard or unrecognized until now; a steady calm presides as the primary impulse. Experiencing the piece for a moment, or in its entirety provides a singularly hallucinatory effect, preying upon physical sensation to produce a spiritual and metaphysical epiphany

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It exists without peers and truly defies verbal exploration or description while teaching the most abstract, yet tangible lesson in physics. The sounds seem to shift spatially, rather than sonically, in units approaching infinity in the minute sense. The resulting composite exhibits a complexity rivaling only distant space and the sub-atomic despite its highly polished obsidian façade.

after writing that review ive had a hard time with any similar-ish drone pieces...i tend to try and get into the very tangible senses a drone can work up.

terry riley "poppy no good phantom band"
henry flynt "c tune" or one of the similar pieces.
xenakis "bohor"
jandek "lavender"
the dead c "helen said this"
the vibracathedral orchestra "captain labour"
double leopards WFMU set (titles not coming to mind off the top of my head)
charalambides "i've been there before"
bardo pond "two planes"
the sonics "the witch"
harvester "nepal boogie"
pandit pran nath with la monte young/marian zazella "tamburas of..."

add more pls!1

Francois Bayle - Toupie Dans le Ciel (from Erosphere, LP version)
David Tudor - Rainforest
Eliane Radigue - Trilogie de la Mort
David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir - Hearing Solar Winds
Garlo - Vent de Guitares
Theatre of Eternal Music
Wendy Carlos - "Summer" from Sonic Seasonings
Stuart Dempster - Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel
Folke Rabe- Was??
Thomas Koner - Teimo
Nurse with Wound - Soliloquy for Lilith
Tony Conrad - Four Violins
Pauline Oliveros -- Roots of the Moment
Asmus Tietchens - Seuchengebiete 2
Rhys Chatham - Two Gongs
Peter Warren & Matt Samolis - Bowed Metal Music
Taj-Mahal Travellers - Live 1974
Roland Kayn - Tektra
Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music
Leif Inge - 9 Beet Stretch
Ellen Fullman - Staggered Stasis
Joe Jones - Solar Music
Tod Dockstader - Aerial I

I love this one. In a similar vein, check "Winter" by Malcoln Gladwell.