Ten Recordings You Should Listen To - #2

The second entry in this series comes from PMAC Piano instructor Mike Effenberger. Mike has additionally taught at the PMAC Summer Rock Workshop and will be teaching a course on Music Production this year.

1) Music for 18 Musicians - Steve Reich

music is big

2) Music has the Right to Children - Boards of Canada

really really big

3) Thought for Food - The Books

The new aleatorica Innovations in sampling

4) Songs Without Words - Fred Hersch

Fred Hersch, solo piano Probably the best improvised counterpoint out there, and over standards

5) Flood - Herbie Hancock

Somebody point me to something funkier than this

6) Indian Classical Masters - Hariprasad Chaurasia

Something very much else

7) Perotin - The Hilliard Ensemble

My favorite recording of this music

8) American Beauty - Grateful Dead

By far my favorite Dead album.

9) Version Dread - Studio One

Foundations in dub and new concepts of what a studio is for

10) Uncommon Ritual - Bela Fleck/Edgar Meyer/Mike Marshall

Ensemble playing ensemble playing ensemble playing

By the way, anybody who agrees with Russ that Kid A is one of the top 10 (i do), come check out Fiveighthirteen at the Barley Pub Saturday 10/13, where we'll be playing our approach to Kid A in its entirety.

-effenberger

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