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These unearthed recordings of an early solo piano performance showcase the composer’s ecstatic approach to melody and repetition.

Yoko Ono was born on this day in Tokyo, Japan in 1933. Happy 90th birthday! Experimental art, feminism, avant rock, imagination A ferocious optimism animates Yoko Ono’s half-century++ career. Her early performance art (Cut Piece), film (Bottoms), Fluxus contributions (alongside George Maciunas, La Monte Young, John Cage), writings (1964 book of creative prompts 'Grapefruit'), worked from the assumption that art was play, an inborn human faculty. She carried that humanism into the music she made, on her own and with husband John Lennon, throughout the 1970s. Impassioned, erratic vocals tore...

An event to showcase talents from a variety of today’s most innovative electronic musicians.

John Cale didn’t come to popular music from the usual places. His muse was born in the classical avant-garde, and when the young Welsh musician first arrived in New York in the early 1960s, he was pulled first into the evocative drone sounds of La Monte Young, joining on viola the composer’s Theatre of Eternal … John Cale on Embracing Pop and the Avant-Garde Read More » The post John Cale on Embracing Pop and the Avant-Garde appeared first on SPIN.

'Mercy,' Cale's first album of new songs since 2012, features a handful of young collaborators and reminisces about his friendships with David Bowie and Nico.