For starters, some my favourite music in top quality mp3 format. From the Mississipi delta to the slopes of Fujiama you are in good hands so sit back and enjoy.
I do not always give the full track information for the following music. I assume that you will buy the music if you like it and thus support the artists, even if as in the case of the Gagaku composers they died over 900 years ago. It is the gesture that counts.
HAYDEN’S TITANIC MIX
This is a mix of songs and birds I made for dancing to whilst the ship of humanity comes o so close to another massive iceberg and the sirens are beginning to ring. The hour gives you enough time to hit the bar once or twice in between the dancing.(c.1′08”)
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KIRBY
Kirby was a Bass player who put together one of the tightest, hottest sextets of the 30´s. He even arranges some Beethoven themes in these sessions and the gamble comes off with some awesome grooves under the twisting melodies. This music is fast, intimate, playful, and makes you smile from beginning to end.This was a hard working, hard touring band and the record sounds like they knew these tunes inside out before hitting the Studio. 1.
TOO MARVELLOUS FOR WORDS
Nat King Cole makes it sound so easy- just how it should be. Here is some of my favourites
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RAMEAU
Born in 1683, Jean-Phillipe Rameau was a prolific French composer well known for his single pair of shoes. Tzimon Barto is a contemporary body builder, pianist, and poet.The Album is called “A Basket of Wild Strawberries” . Enough said?
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MARIANO
Cesar Mariano, a pianist and arranger took his band into the studio in ´78 to record this masterpiece, a mixture of Brazilian grooves with electric instruments, a blend way ahead of it´s time- classic Brazilian fusion. Like the Kirby band, these guys were tight and you can feel that they were deeply inside this music. All of the tracks have a beautifully development, ending in places you never expect. Although it clocks in under 40 minutes you feel like you have been taken on a much longer journey.
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HAYDEN’S BLUES MIX FOR WHEN IT JUST DON´t GO NO MORE
Here is a mix of Leadbelly, John Hurt, and some other rarities. (c.65′00)
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NEW ZEALAND BIRD SONG TO WONDER WITH AND HOW
I am often caught ranting about how I prefer listening to NZ bird song to many other “musics” I hear today so finally here is some evidence for all the disbelievers. There is quite a selection here playing as one file. (c.35′00)
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BLOSSOM
Watch out! Here comes Blossom- in full beautiful flight.
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STERNKLANG
This is one of my favourite pieces by Stockhausen and was written to be performed in a park under the stars. (37´)
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GESUALDO
This dear aristocratic manic wrote some of the most original vocal music of the 16th century. Enjoy these chromatic twists and dissonances that really hit the Kyudo target right in the middle. Performed by the Hilliard Ensemble.
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SOEUR MARIE
A Beautiful example of Byzantine Chant best listened to in the hour of dawn.
Souer Marie Keyrouz:
GILBERTO - Personalidade
This album of Gilberto Gil is one of my all time favourites. Every piece takes us somewhere completely new- it is one long voyage from beginning to end.
CASALS PLAYS THE BACH CELLO SUITES
An essential classic.
Suite 1:
Suite 2:
Suite 3:
Suite 4:
Suite 5:
Suite 6:
SOFTSPEAKERS RADIO
The voices of the likes of Apollinaire, Paul Celan, Joyce, Plath, Trungpa, Hans Arp, Aleister Crowley, e.e. cummings, and more. (c.37′00)
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MOUNT FUJI´S BREATH DOWN MY KIWI NECK
I often use this track when I am doing breathing exercises or meditation. I simply stop when the music does which is after about ten minutes.
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HAYDEN´s MADNESS MIX
How many of us are on the edge without knowing it?
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INCHTTIME MIX
Beginning with a stunning classic by Roland Kirk, this mix by Stefan of Inchtime is packed with sonic gems.
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JAPANESE ANSWER TO A QUESTION I ONCE ASKED
An “accidental” classic from the sixties with the clarinet player T. Scott who teed off with some master Japanese musicians in an improvisation session that came close to the hole. Perfect for accompanying breathing exercises or eating rice with soy sauce to at a slow tempo.
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LEGEND D´ER
Listening to this Xenakis work with headphones in its entirety in a concentrated state is a kind of initiation for the brave of ear. The piece demands nothing less from the listener.(c.45′00)
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HAYDEN´S PHONOGRAPHIC MIX
If it crackles and pops and grooves a little on the side it´s in, baby.
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JAPANESE COWBOYS
Don´t leave the sushi ranch without them. And remember, it´s all in the attention to detail. Country Gazette. inspired by the movie “The Shooting”.
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JIMMY
The Whole Album- Great for Tai chi on Coca and Ginseng tea. Jimmy Smith at his absolute best.Let the lion roar :
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WEBERN MIX
Let me guide you through the works of one of my favourite composers:
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ARMENIA
From Armenia some Duduk sounds I love to listen to after Meshuggha, or when I am about to give up on the world.
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GAGAKU
Perfect for desert driving and walking through pebble gardens.1-6 (c.50′00).
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KONITZ - MOTION
And indeed it moves. The Album I listened to most whilst living in the sad little student home in Cologne Klettenberg .
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DAEMMERSCHEIN FROM HELLAS RESONATING ABOVE
Thunder is brewing on the Greek horizons. Xenakis.
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MESHUGGHA
I have listened more to this album than almost any other. The reason for this is that I used to draw with it.
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GAGAKU LIVE
Sound quality not so high but the playing is killing. If you can make it through to the end you will be richly rewarded when the team start singing. Spine chilling stuff.1-5 (c.45′00).
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ART OF IMPROVISING
This one is hard to find so I put it up. Tristano cut all of Warne’s soli together which means it gets straight to the point. This is what I mean by sax playing which is not pattern dictated. This is some of the highest level improvising in a jazz context I know.
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KONITZ AND MARSH - LIVE AT THE HALF NOTE
And there are indeed plenty of nice tied crotchets in this masterpiece. 1-9
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CARNATIC MIX
Jacki Liebezeit’s favourite(c.55′00)
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TALLIS
From the Lamentations. Perfect for New Zealand Springs. I associate this music strongly with the area around Lake Taupo, maybe because the casette with Tallis was stolen from my mini next to the fishnchip shop on the lake. .Lamentations: Incipit lamentatio Jeremiae prophetae
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NONO
From one of my favourite composers comes this mix of vocal works.1. A floresta jovem e cheja de vida (1965-66) 40:28 for soprano, three reciters, clarinet, thunder sheets and 8-channel tape, 2. Â Donde estas hermano?(1982) 5:19 for two sopranos, mezzo-soprano and contralto from Quando stanno morendo, Diario Polacco, n.2, 3. Djamila Boupacha¡ (1962) 4:53 for solo soprano
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DE NATURA SONORUM
The title gives us all the information we need. This is a fascinating journey by composer Bernard Parmegiani exploring the relationships between sound and sharpening our perception of them. This of course, depends entirely on the level of our hearing.
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a rather abrupt turn
Is that all there is?- peggy lee:
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One more kiss, dear - don percival:
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It’s raining today- scott walker:
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Lee Perry dub
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Chinese Fangzhao love song:
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WERKEN
The electronic music of my friend Tilman (who is also by the by a great Sax player) often accompanies me whilst reading and writing. there are a lot of beautiful details in these tracks
BOHNES
My friend and Subultra co-instigator Jochen Bohnes created these beautiful remixes of Negativeland tracks. In my opinion better than the originals.
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Leaves in our Hands
“I will answer you in the words of Gurdjieff as given by Ospensky- “If you understood everything you have read in your life, you would already know what you are looking for now.”This statement is one to be pondered over again and again. It reveals the true connection between books and life. It tells one how to read. It proves- to me, at any rate- something I have reiterated a number of times, to wit, that the reading of books is for the joy of corroboration, and that that is the final discovery we make about books.
As for true reading- a procedure which never ends- that can be done with anything: a blade of grass, a flower, a horse’s hoof, the eyes of a child when smitten with wonder or ecstasy, the mien of a real warrior, the form of a pyramid, or the serene composure graven on the statue of every Buddha. If the questioning faculty is not dead, if the sense of wonder is not atrophied, if there be real hunger and not mere appetite or craving, one cannot help but read as he runs. the whole universe must then become an open book.This joyous reading of life or books does not imply the abatement of the critical faculty. On the contrary. To make full surrender to author or Author implies the exaltation of the critical faculty.
In railing against the use of the word “constructive” in connection with literary criticism, Powys writes thus :O that word “constructive”! How, in the name of the mystery of genius, can criticism be anything else than an idolatry, a worship, a metamorphoses, a love affair!Ever and ever the moving finger points to the innermost self, not in warning but in love. The handwriting on the wall is neither mysterious nor menacing to the one who can interpret it. Walls fall away, and with them our fears and reluctances. But the last wall to give way is the wall which hems the ego in. Who reads not with the eyes of the Self reads not at all. the inner eye pierces all walls, deciphers all scripts, transforms all “messages.” It is not a reading or appraising eye, but an informing eye. It does not receive light from without, it sheds light- Light and Joy. Through light and joy is the world opened up, revealed for what it is : ineffable beauty, unending creation.”
Henry Miller- The Books of my Life
Some Books of my Life:
Cervantes Don Quixote (Edith Grossman translation)
Bulgakov The Heart of a Dog, The Master and Margerita
Selimovic The Fortress, Death and the Dervish
Ivo Andric The Bridge on the Drina, The Dammed Yard
Raymond Roussel Locus Solus, Impressions of Africa
Henry Miller The Air Conditioned Nightmare
Joris-Karl Huysmans Against Nature ( A Rebours)
Gore Videl Essays
Aleister Crowely Book4, 777, Confessions, Book of Thoth, Book of Lies
Franz Kafka everything
Umberto Eco Reflections on The Name of the Rose
James Joyce everything
Jean Baudrillard Cool Memories, The Transparency of Evil
Hans Arp French Writings
Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel
Jean Paul Richter Siebenkaes
Montaigne Essays
Alan Hymes M.D Science of Breath
Czeslaw Milosz The Captive Mind, Poetry
Heiner Ruhland Expanding Tonal Awareness
Daniel Reid The Tao of Health, Sex , and Longitivity
Jan Potocki The Manuscript found at Saragossa
Georg Lichtenberg Aphorisms
Allen Ginsberg Spontaneous Mind
William Blake Collected Poetry
Herodotus The Histories
Celine Journey to the End of the Night
Dostoyevsky The Idiot
Russell History of Western Philosophy
Arthur Power Conversations with James Joyce
Stockhausen Texte zur Musik
Ivan Illach Deschooling Society
Jerzy Grotowski whatever you can find
JM Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and times of Michael K
Ryzard Kapucinski everything
Pir Villiat Khan In Search of the Hidden Treasure
Dalai Lama Selected Works, Daily Meditations
Czeslaw Milosz Legends of Modernity
Sogyal Rimpoche The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Ospensky In Search of the Miraculous
Musashi The Book of Five Rings
Robert Graves The Greek Myths, The White Godess
W. Shakespeare alles oder nichts
E.Cioran everything
Gudjieff Meetings with Remarkable Men
Icelandic Sagas, .
The Book of Kells
Guy Debord Society of the Spectacle
Basho The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Krasa The travels of Sir John Mandeville
Mircea Eliade Journals
Chuang Tsu Inner Chapters
Novalis Hymns to the Night
Camus The Outsider
Lampedusa The Leopard
Peter Brook Threads of Time, The Shifting Point
Tadashi Suzuki The Way of Acting
Japanese Death Poems edited by Hoffman
Andre Breton Anthology of Black Humor
Richard Sennett The Fall of Public Man
Henning Haslund Men and Gods in Mongolia
Harold Bloom Shakespeare, The Invention of the Human, Genius, Kabbalah
Gardner The New Ambidextrous Universe
Douglas Rushkoff Coercion
SteinerThe Fourth Dimension
Silverstein The Missing Piece, The Giving Tree
John Major Jenkins Galactic Alingment
Julian Barnard Bach Flower Remedies, form and function
Gaiman The Books of Magic
Joseph Brodsky Essays
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