The Galaxy Playlist

September 7, 2009

Pledging my Allegiance...

Composer's name is listed where notable (i.e. Classical Performance, Jazz Performance).

For more information on any of the rock, pop and Jazz music featured on this program, I frequently utilize AllMusic , an excellent free database holding a huge plethora of information about music and the artists that make it.

Composer Performer Title Genre Label Notes
Maurice Ravel
Sergio Tiempo, Karin Lechner, 4 hand piano
Daphnis et Chloe: Suite No. 2
Classical, post-Romantic era, music for 4-hand piano/piano duet
EMI, 2008
The piece is a transcription of a Ravel ballet that comprises the vast majority of the third act
Ravi Shankar, sitar, -w- Ustad Allaa Rakha (tabla)
Homage to Mahatma Gandhi: Raga Mohan Kauns
Indian Classical
Music India, 1980
The performance appears to have been recorded circa 1958, but it is very difficult to get good documentation.
Bauhaus
She's In Parties
Rock, post-punk, goth, new wave
Beggar's Banquet, 1983
 
Joy Division
She's Lost Control
Rock, post-punk, new wave
Factory, 1980
 
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
New Stone Age
Dindisc/Virgin, 1981
 
Sun Ra, featuring Pharoah Sanders (tenor sax) and Black Harold (Harold Murray, flute), -w- the Arkestra
Discipline 9
Jazz, free, avant guard
ESP-Disk, 2009
originally issued in 1964
Sonic Youth
Teenage Riot
Rock, post-punk, experimental
Enigma/Geffen, 1988
 
Fire Engine Dream
 
Metallica
Broken, Beat and Scarred
Metal
Warner Bros., 2008
 
Pantera
I Cast A Shadow
Elektra, 2000
 
Mouth For War
EastWest, 1992
 

 

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