Category: Music

Andy “Thunderclap” Newman may have played the piano as if he wore boxing gloves, but here Williams Albright and Bolcom put something a little more forceful on the pianist’s hands.

I wanted to post something from Switched-On Bach, but W. Carlos doesn’t want it on YouTube. We’ll have to make do with this homage. The third movement is here; it begins with the two chords that constitute the second movement.

I drank enough beer for a lifetime in college, mostly plain, not fancy.

From Koenji Hyakkei, the slightly more accessible of Tatsuya Yoshida’s Zeuhl ensembles.

“Something in the Air” was their big hit, but this was more fun.

How’s your Icelandic?

Feel like a howl-along?

More crazy Finns. These play surf music.

A live recording of a tune Satriani wrote back when he had hair.

Like Leo Kottke, Peter Lang was discovered by John Fahey over fifty years ago.

… and now — Mozart?

The Bothy Band returns.

The opening to Satoshi Kon’s Paprika, featuring Susumu Hirasawa’s “Mediational Field.” You can hear the full-length version of the tune here.

So that no one will ever think of me as “cool.”

David Lindley, without Kaleidoscope.

Kaleidoscope from a reunion album, without David Lindley, as wacko as ever.

More favorite Schubert.

Their big hit was “Mexican Radio,” but this is what I remember them for.