Crucial Listening

Playing with earthlings, disrupting linear time, the St Anger challenge. The Washington-based musician discusses three important albums.

Aaron's picks:

1) The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland

2) Metallica – ...And Justice For All

3) Caspar Brötzmann Massaker – Home

Honourable mention:

Neil Young – Dead Man OST

Aaron is @aaronbturner on Instagram, Twitter and Blogspot.

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Dispatches from space, tuning downward, chasing Coltrane. The Enablers vocalist talks about three important albums.

Pete's picks:

1) Pere Ubu – Dub Housing

2) Mississippi Fred McDowell – Live At The Gaslight, November 1971

3) John Coltrane – Interstellar Space

You can check out Enablers over on Bandcamp.

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Concerto storytelling, iso-polyphony, ensembles of weirdos. The Montreal-based violinist selects three important albums.

Jessica's picks:

1) Gil Shaham – Sibelius / Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos

2) Various – Cry You Mountains, Cry You Fields (Traditional Songs & Folk Music From S.E. Albania)

3) PJ Harvey – Let England Shake

Check out Jessica's website and Facebook for her music, live dates etc.

Oh, and I asked Jessica to point me in the direction of more Albanian vocal music after enjoying "Cry You Mountains..." so much. She sent me this, which is beautiful.

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Psychedelic breakfast, compositional commentary, just intonation autopilot. The Montreal-based composer discusses three important albums.

Sarah's picks:

1) Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother

2) Alastair Galbraith – Cry

3) Terry Riley – Shri Camel

You can check out Sarah's music/updates via her website, on Facebook and over at Bandcamp.

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Post-punk hurled at a wall, intellectual slapstick, the loops of life. The Brooklyn-based composer and author discusses three important albums.

David's picks:

1) Circle X – EP

2) Tony Conrad – Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain

3) Luc Ferrari – Presque Rien No. 1 'Le Lever du jour au bord de la mer'

You can find David over at Drag City and on Bandcamp. Also, be sure to go here to check out David and others sporting an array of Tony Conrad's wonderful jackets.

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Year-long fixations, psychedelic culture and dramatic minor keys. The Wisconsin-based composer/percussionist discusses three important albums.

Jon's picks:

1) Uriah Heep – The Magician's Birthday

2) Faun Fables – Family Album

3) Psychic TV – Dreams Less Sweet

You can find out more about Jon's work over at Rhythmplex and on Bandcamp.

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Cold War paranoia, modular rock, Bieber vs The Stones. The ever-prolific, ever-eclectic English musician discusses his three important albums.

Richard's picks:

1) Pink Floyd – Meddle (again!)

2) Cabaret Voltaire – The Voice Of America

3) Justin Bieber – Purpose

You can find Richard Youngs online and over at Bandcamp. The first track from his upcoming double album This Is Not A Lament, featuring Alasdair Roberts and Donald WG Lindsay, can be heard here.

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Running up stairs, understated drumming, pushing beyond the boundaries of metal music. The Norwegian noise musician / fervent collaborator / record producer discusses three important albums.

Lasse's picks:

1) Pink Floyd – Meddle

2) Ground Zero – Revolutionary Pekinese Orchestra Ver.1.28

3) Tony Conrad With Faust – Outside The Dream Syndicate

You can check out Lasse online or over at BandCamp (or, as per Lasse's wishes, go listen to Tony Conrad instead).

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Bodily listening, manipulated time and the voice of David Toop. The Australian sound artist / Room40 label-founder shares his three most important albums.

Lawrence English's picks:

1) Swans – Filth

2) David Toop – Black Chamber

3) The Necks – Aether

You can check out Lawrence English online and over at Bandcamp. The Room40 website is here.

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Strange chord progressions, the theory of the jar, falling in love in Japan. The Montreal sound artist / minimalist composer shares her three important albums.

France Jobin's picks:

1) Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue

2) Joni Mitchell – Hejira

3) Morelenbaum² + Sakamoto – A Day In New York

Honourable mention:

Atom™ – Hd

France Jobin's current installations:

Inter/sperse: May 27 - June 17 2017 - Museolaboratorio, Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Città Sant'Angelo, Italy

Entre/temps: June 4 - September 30 2017 - Eremo Celestiniano di Madonna Dell’Altare, Palena (CH) Italy

France Jobin is on SoundCloud and on Bandcamp.

Revisit ATTN's interview with France from 2014 right here.

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