Sleep:
Trilogie De la Mort - Elaine Radigue

Wake up:
Inner Mind Mystique - Masonna
or any other noise really.

Sleep:
Tim Hecker - Radio Amor

my last few sleep cds have been

zero7 - simple things
blue states - nothing changes under the sun
stan getz & luiz bonfa - the jazz samba encore

i don't listen to music when i first wake up

I haven't heard of Peter Brotzmann Octet. What album you suggest I check out?

Falling Sleep:

Annbjørg Lien - ''Baba Yaga''
Einstürzende Neubauten - ''Silence is Sexy''
Huun Huur Tu - ''Altai Sayan...'' & '' Malerija''
Yat-Kha - ''Aldyn Dashka''
Ondar - ''Back Tuva Future''
Robert Rich & B. Lustmord - ''Stalker''

Waking up:

Einstürzende Neubauten - ''Tabula Rasa'', ''Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T.'', ''Perpetuum Mobile", & ''Interim''...
Einherjer- ''Aurora Borealis'' & "Dragons of the North"...
Oneiroid Psychosis - ''Fantasies about Illness'', & ''Garden of Remembrance''
Skinny Puppy - ''The Greatest Wrong of the Right''
Ohgr - ''Welt''
Aphex Twin - ''Caustic Window Compilation'', & ''Come to Daddy''
Dark Reality - ''Blossom of Mourning''
Rivendell - ''Elven Tears'', & ''The Ancient Glory''
Kraftwerk- Tour de France, ''Expo Remix'', & ''The Mix''...

It's highly aggressive free-jazz -- and "Machine Gun" is probably the best place to start, next to "Nipples" or "Balls"...

All those really are more historical than anything. And the name is Peter Brötzmann. The Octet name covers several groups/recordings over several decades.


Now really essential would be Little Birds Have Fast Hearts Vol. 1 & 2, which is by his Die Like a Dog Quartet. Of the other 3 remaining DLAD recordings the original S/T is next.

The Die Like a Dog Quartet started out as a one time thing in honor of Albert Ayler and has grown from there. There is also the DLAD Trio for when Toshinori Kondo can not play with the others.





The links


http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p...gj9ke9taq7x~T1


http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p...u1gtq5z9u43~T1

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p...06dtr4ekl1x~T1

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p...b841vg4zzua~T1


If you can find this very out of print 3cd set GET IT!

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p...huf6j217180~T1



There are a lot more I would suggest if those interested you. You're going to eventually want to get the three Seba mentioned. But you can skip at least the other two beside Machine Gun for a good bit.


More on Peter Brötzmann


http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p...1:tihxlfge5cqi

try listening to the whole "kind of blue" by miles davis for sleeping
when waking up listen to any dinosaur jr. album

Thanks for the informative links.

Well, I figured I would make up for that 3 weeks without your usual check for the upkeep of The High Desert.


Keeping up with Brötzmann's releases/reissues of late can be expensive. I believe there have been 8-12 cd/lps releases/reissues this year alone. One just came out a few weeks ago, one he is a sideman on is coming out this week. With another new one under his name in a week or two.

Now Brötzmann really doesn't have anything on Anthony Braxton. Although, this year Braxton is having a slow year for him. I think there have only been 3-4 releases, which only contain 8-10 cds.

Of course, the year is not over for either one. And I know there is a 2cd reissue coming out very soon for Braxton.