Lovely Music Limited 1976-1990

I don't know enough about this label or the recordings on it outside of a handful of things, but it seems very close in spirit to New Albion

This topic is of interest to me, but to my shame I don't think I've heard anything on the list :(

I've owned a handful each of the lucier and ashley ones, that's it. Of those, I am sitting in a room easy

Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox (1977)
Robert Ashley - Private Parts (1978)
Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room (1981)
Annea Lockwood - A Sound Map Of The Hudson River (1989)

^ I know these ones and they're all great. Happy to get pointers on the rest - think the whole catalogue is on emusic and my credit is just about to refresh.

Best label, really into Behrman these days

on the other ocean is a favorite of mine, a very warm lovely record

An hour for Piano is pretty sick, iirc

I own copies of 80% of these, it's very difficult to go wrong. Not much from this label seems to be on Spotify; the liner notes in tandem with the elemental nature of the packaging is a big part of the experience though. This weekend my Ashley listening crossed over into me hitting a lot of the early records on this label just as hard.

I put the voting deadline out a few weeks, I have no idea what I'm going to vote for.

Oh wait I do have I Am Sitting In A Room.

David Behrman
Alvin Lucier
Eliane Radigue
"Blue" Gene Tyranny
David Tudor S & D
robert ashley
Pauline Oliveros
The Meredith Monk Thread

another label where one learned to trust the logo on sight

This is so, so otm.

also, I forgot a very, very important one

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Lovely-Little-Records/release/481822

In fact, since I listed Duckworth's Time Curve Preludes twice (2nd one is the CD edition), let's count the 1990 edition as a vote for Lovely Little Records

hard not to vote for Private Parts, but other seriously heavy awesome jams --
Vernal Equinox
On The Other Ocean
The Wanderer
Sitting In A Room
Hour For Piano
Out of The Blue
Atalanta...

I need the Radigue Records!

Same here.

Not sure if I'm voting but its hard not to see I Am Sitting In A Room winning this.

Voting for William Duckworth's Time Curve Preludes--24 alternately beautiful, playful and math-y (i.e. structures based on the Fibonacci sequence) post-minimalist piano miniatures.

I highly recommend listening to this stream of the whole piece: http://recordings.irritablehedgehog.com/album/william-duckworth-the-time-curve-preludes.

Joel Chadabe's Rhythm is a charmer.

Re Time Curve Preludes: Much prefer R. Andrew Lee's performance to Neely Bruce's.

i really love on the other ocean. also really love duckworth, radigue, lockwood, mumma... hard poll to vote in.

For real

Thank you Mimi Johnson for this record label

ok just going to bookmark this as a shopping list. don't think i've heard any of these records even tho i love most of these artists

So many I cld pick, had to go for Automatic Writing - pass the LSD - but 'Blue' Gene Tyranny's Out of the Blue genuinely is a Lovely Record.

Leapday Night baby.

Still dithering on Automatic Writing vs I Am Sitting in a Room. Might actually be impossible.

A few others whose work I like but don't know the *records* well enough to vote (hi Radigue, Oliveros).

the Lovely Oliveros records were actually her first full length LPs. only her work for electronics had been released on various compilations to that point, but the two Lovelies are all about the accordion drones. this was before integrated delays & microtonal intervals into her playing so these were a shock to people expecting 'Bye Bye Butterfly'. the covers are amazing:

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=946820
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1397148

'Songs of Milarepa' is pretty different for Radigue: it's got vocals by Robert Ashley, narrating passages from the life of Milarepa, alternating with those same passages sung in Tibetan. Ashley sounds great over those drones, it's definitely a collaboration. But I rate 'Jetsun Mila' up there with 'Trilogie De La Mort'. I ripped both discs and put in a careful crossfade to make an 84 minute mp3 so I don't have to switch discs at the mid-point anymore (is precisely how much I love that piece)

Thanks Milton, good summaries. And yes, those covers!

On the Other Ocean ftw

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Private Parts as a matter of respect (and it was my window into this label) but it really hurts me not to be able to vote for On The Other Ocean. Both are close to perfect records imho.

'Next Time Might Be Your Time' might just be the best new old thing I've heard this year. Have Belle and Sebastian ever acknowledged their debt to it?

not too many Lovely records go for pop music, but that song just nails it. that whole Tyranny album is good.

the only other ones that even border on pop are the later two Perfect Lives Ashley records (with Tyranny writing the chord sequences), 'The Bar' and 'Music Word Fire'. I have no idea why those haven't come out on one CD; I imagine when they do, it's going to get crazy reviews in a lot of places, they're the most accessible Ashley records.

there's also Peter Gordon's 'Star Jaws' and his production on the Jill Kroesen record, which has some strange & catchy things on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijj6GmHqaTY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKn6cq8sBBQ

Robert Ashley - The Captain of the Football Team (Donnie)
Track 4 - "Music Word Fire and I Would Do It Again (Coo Coo)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Rw00Nc8j0
Side A from Perfect Lives (Private Parts) - "The Bar" (episode four)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I feel like I should have voted for the Jill Kroesen record just so it got a vote. Totally undeserved zero. That record's great.

steve bartek from oingo boingo plays guitar on a bunch of these!

god im loveing peter gordens star jaws

aw, no votes for vernal equinox