...No, that's not a joke set-up. It really happened on the Santa Monica Pier in 2010. Daniel Corral and his group the Free Reed Conspiracy actually sat on carousel horses that went up 'n' down, up 'n' down, playing a near-30 minute powerful drone piece - like Glenn Branca for squeezeboxes. "...the audience listened as the music spun past them." Watch it here (can't see the musicians much, unfortunately):NEOTROPEor download the mp3 from Corral's website if you scroll down a bit HEREtho it's not as densely loud. The acoustics of the 80-year-old carousel building no doubt caused much reverberation, which I prefer to the pristine studio version.There was apparently an entire evening of music and performance on the carousel and, as I live in Los Angeles, am bummed that I wasn't there. Encore, encore!
AJNA: A Giant, Strange Mechanical-Music ContraptionFrom Sweden comes some fantastic new videos of AJNA, a large musical robot that looks like Dr. Who's police box tricked out with drums, sound-making thingies, and v ... 
COVER THE EARTH Vol. 5When will it end?! Still more bizarre international ethnic versions of Western pop hits. And by 'ethnic' I also mean American and European styles like bl ... 
PHILIP GLASS GOES POLKA!Not really. But an East Coast accordionist has released a collection of Philip Glass covers. Some solo, some of it sounds overdubbed, no other instruments. This shouldn ... 
Music Recorded In A Cave on "The Great Stalacpipe Organ"Here's some real "underground music," har har! Put on your lantern helmet and repel with me down into Luray Caverns, Virginia, where an engineer named Leland Spri ... 
ALBUM DU JOUR #6: The Toy-Pop Sounds of Carton Sonore The French invasion of wonderful naive/toy-pop continues with the loveable Carton Sonore (Sound Card). The three all-too-brief "Petit Themes" albums available for d ... 
