Artist: La Monte Young
Album: The Well-Tuned Piano
Year: 1987
Label: Gramavision
Genre: Classical, minimalism, avant-garde
RIYL: Classical music your grandparents would STILL screech at you to turn off
Here’s an uber-rarity for you. (Seriously, check the Amazon used prices on this beast.) La Monte Young is a well-respected, well-known performer/composer of the avant-garde. This is, perhaps, his masterpiece so (naturally) it is way out of print. The Well-Tuned Piano is 5 hour-long discs of fairly slow, rather discordant piano playing. It’s both hypnotic and, at 5 hours, impossible to listen to in one sitting. (Not that people haven’t done it–they have. But I would think for most of us that would fail to do anything except make us angry at life.)
By the way, considering the size of this album, I had to split the download into 2 parts. Thus, rather than clicking the icon like normal, I get to do the “Click Here for Discs 1-2” and “Click Here for Discs 3-5” thing! I hope you enjoy because it took forever to upload these bad boys.
July 16, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Awesome! Thanks so much! Hope you didn’t have to pay Amazon price for it.
July 17, 2011 at 12:37 am
Ahhhhhhhhhhh…no. In today’s digital age I didn’t have to put down any money for it.
Though if I ever see it at a good price, I’ll snatch it right up!
October 7, 2012 at 5:29 am
thanks! is very hard to find this kind of music, very very thanks!
January 21, 2013 at 11:26 pm
Thanks for it!
March 28, 2013 at 6:04 pm
Downloads still live …You’re a star!
March 28, 2013 at 6:12 pm
ha! Considering I haven’t been upkeeping this blog at all I can’t believe that. I figured all of these links would have gone down the shitter with the clampdown on mediafire last year.
September 23, 2015 at 11:19 am
I got it, September 22, 2015…
June 1, 2016 at 3:16 pm
its wednesday, 1st of june 2016.. just downloaded both files. thankfully the downloads are still active.
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January 3, 2022 at 9:33 pm
thank you!