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What is the most uplifting piece of music you know that you would consider avant-garde? Preferably something that avoids major-key melodies or harmonies.

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 18 October 2002 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

HA HA HA now would you like to take a guess.

but i also like the way cecil taylor's hands dance on that piano of his too.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 18 October 2002 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Tough one. I'll toss in the La Monte Young "....High Tension Line Step Down Transformer." Don't know the exact title without the disc in front of me.

Chris

― Chris Krohn, Friday, 18 October 2002 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Alex Von Schippenbach's Hunting the Snake, 'cos it's spirited and wild. Plus lots of other free improv, for similar reasons.

― charlie va, Friday, 18 October 2002 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

colon noncarro?

― steve k, Friday, 18 October 2002 23:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Just a few off the top of my head--

"Hex Kitchen" by Ikue Mori
"And The Earth Shall Bear Again" by John Cage
"Volumina" by Gyorgy Ligeti
and many things by Eugene Chadbourne

― Ashley Andel, Friday, 18 October 2002 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

More Sun City Girls than you can shake a stick at....

― brg30 (brg30), Saturday, 19 October 2002 00:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Hero Sun - Henry Cowell

― Marinaorgan (Marina Organ), Saturday, 19 October 2002 00:48 (twenty-three years ago)

colon noncarro

Great name for a punk band.

― charlie va (charlie va), Saturday, 19 October 2002 01:04 (twenty-three years ago)

"in trane's name" by frank lowe

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Saturday, 19 October 2002 02:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Oddly enough -- given the number of times I've attacked him on ILM -- the best answer I can come up with is Cage's Sonatas and Interludes.

(Unless "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" counts.)

― Phil (phil), Saturday, 19 October 2002 03:47 (twenty-three years ago)

"SIN'S A GOOD MAN'S BROTHER" BY GRAND FUNK RAILROAD

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Saturday, 19 October 2002 05:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Eric Dolphy's Gazzeloni

― Jez (Jez), Saturday, 19 October 2002 07:53 (twenty-three years ago)

well lately I'd say history of island Ewynd Kang, a record that should be listed amongst the greatest minimalist titles of the last decade. the more I listen to it the more I receive the impression of a "necessary" album. so simple so joyful.

― francesco, Saturday, 19 October 2002 08:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy All Monsters - "Mom's & Dad's Pussy"

― dave q, Saturday, 19 October 2002 09:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Poem Rocket - Contrail de l'avion

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 19 October 2002 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

flying luttenbachers "gods of chaos" album, the stretchheads, god-is-my-co-pilot, sun city girls (as forementioned), beefheart in places, aphex twin, lesser and so on and so on....

― bob snoom, Saturday, 19 October 2002 15:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Metal Machine Music (esp. Side 3).

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Saturday, 19 October 2002 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Base of Fiction, Jyoji Sawada
"Miagetegoran, Yoru no Hoshi wo", Ground Zero
"Angels", 1-0

― dleone (dleone), Saturday, 19 October 2002 18:10 (twenty-three years ago)

You're so right! That's my favourite side as well. But I have a suspicion that's because there are major key melodies and harmonies buried under there. With Sonatas and Interludes too (another good answer). I love the Second Dream but I don't know if "uplifting" is the right word. Maybe though. What Cecil Taylor do you find uplifting, Julio? A lot of interesting answers generally so far.

Weirdly I knew that last answer was dleone before I saw his name.

― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 19 October 2002 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

"you're so right" = Andrew L. dleone sneaked in while I was posting the first time and so I had to read him before posting for real.

― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 19 October 2002 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

silent tongues i do find uplifting. but also the end (last 3 minutes) of 'It's in the brewing luminuous' on hatology where he recites his poetry (his mentalist bark!).

his solo rec on FMP too. the sound of his footsteps...he's dancing i think. i like that.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 19 October 2002 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Talk Talk's New Grass ...or is that disqualified in the original question? I only know major from minor intuitively.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 19 October 2002 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"SIN'S A GOOD MAN'S BROTHER" BY GRAND FUNK RAILROAD

and heck, play the Monster Magnet cover right after.

― brg30 (brg30), Saturday, 19 October 2002 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

"Rods and Cones" by Blue Man Group. Most definitely.

― Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 19 October 2002 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, er... if we must avoid traditional harmonies, I'd say "PVC IV" by the same.

― Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 19 October 2002 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

terry riley

― spectra, Sunday, 20 October 2002 05:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Planet Rock

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Sunday, 20 October 2002 06:06 (twenty-three years ago)

& Can's 'Mother Sky'

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Sunday, 20 October 2002 06:13 (twenty-three years ago)

4 Hero - Journey from the Light

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Sunday, 20 October 2002 11:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Terry Riley's In C. It uplifts me, anyway. The last track on the latest Rafael Toral album's pretty uplifting too, though I'd say it's mostly avant-garde by reputation.

― Lee G (Lee G), Monday, 21 October 2002 18:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Weirdly I knew that last answer was dleone before I saw his name.

Must be the Japanese. Or, you're one of like 2 people who know about 1-0.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 21 October 2002 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Negativeland - "Nesbit's Lime Soda"

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 21 October 2002 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

revive!

― ☪, Monday, 21 May 2007 08:31 (eighteen years ago)

"Joyful Noises Of The Lord" by the Brotherhood of Breath.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 21 May 2007 08:36 (eighteen years ago)

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