One of the BEST Japanese drone CDs ever - don’t miss

Diesel Guitar - Stream Of Lights - Japanese Drone
[FMN Sound Factory, 2002, Japan]

TRACKS:

01. [Untitled] Recorded Live At Koki-ji Temple In Osaka, June 2000 (8:39)

02. [Untitled] Osaka Zokei Center In Osaka, October 1998 (8:24)

03. [Untitled] Recorded Live At Koki-ji Temple In Osaka, June 2000 (19:59)

04. Osaka Zokei Center In Osaka, October 1998 (10:04)

05. [Untitled] Recorded In Niigata, June 2001 (14:35)

06. [Untitled] Recorded In Niigata, June 2001 (7:04)

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Drone music

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Drone music, also known as drone-based music, drone ambient or ambient drone, dronescape or dronology, and sometimes simply as drone, is a musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tones-clusters – called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece compared to other musics.

Overview

Music which contains drones and is rhythmically still or very slow can be found in many parts of the world, including the Japanese gagaku classical tradition; Scottish pibroch piping; didgeridoo music in Australia, Hindustani classical music (which is accompanied almost invariably by the tambura, a four-string instrument which is only capable of playing a drone); and pre-polyphonic organum vocal music of late medieval Europe. Repeations of tones, as in Appalachain banjo music, supposed to be in imitation of bagpipes, are found in a wide variety of genres and musical forms. However, the lineage of stillness and long tones occurring in classical compositions during adagio movements, including, for instance, the third movement of Anton Webern’s Five Small Pieces for Orchestra, as well as in Northern European folk musics in the form of “slow airs” has directly descended into modern popular and electronic music in a way which is directly derived from the mileau of La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, John Cale, Charlemagne Palestine and others in 1960s New York.

The modern genre of drone music (differentiated by some as “dronology”) is most often applied to artists who have allied themselves closely with underground music and the post-rock or experimental music genres. Drone music also fit into the genres of new age, found sound, minimal music, dark ambient, drone doom/drone metal, and noise music. Most often utilizing electronic instruments or electronic processing of acoustic instruments, they typically create dense and unmoving harmonies and a stilled or “hovering” sense of time. While the hallmarks of drone music are easy to recognize, the backgrounds and goals of the artists vary greatly.

~ by stayminimal on March 12, 2007.