Various. The Roots Of Drone. 2CD.

Product Description

Utilised in genres as disparate as modern and traditional classical, folk, techno, Chicago blues and even heavy metal, the repetition of a single note or chord of fixed pitch - otherwise referred to as a 'drone' - serving as permanent focus in a given opus, has graced as many compositions as it has influenced others. This compilation serves as a much anticipated but never before compiled guidebook to the finest examples of the use of drone throughout the age of magnetic tape, albeit in forms outside those loosely labeled 'modern music'.

Track Listing

Disc 1:
Fiddlin' Eck Robertson - Sally Goodin
Pibroch o' Donald Dubh - Pipe Major Macintosh
Veena Dhanammal - Nijamarmamulan Raga Umabharanam
Austin Coleman, Joe Washington & Group - Good Lord (Run Old Jeremiah)
The Original Uday Shankar Company Of Hindu Musicians - Raga Bhairava
George Formby - Hindoo Man
The Pipes & Drums Of The 2nd Battalion Scots Guards - Skye Boat Song
John Cage - 4:33
John Lee Hooker - Wandering Blues
Efisio Melis - Mediana
The Borodin Quartet - Shostakovich String Quartet #4 in D, Op 83-4 Allegretto
Clarence Ashley - The Coo-Coo Bird
Floyd Jones - On the Road Again
Sam Cooke & The Soul Stirrers - Come and Go To That Land
Muddy Waters - Mannishi Boy
Ravi Shankar - Raga Simhendra Madhyamam
Wam Tribe New Guinea - Live Beetle Jew's Harp

Disc 2:
One String Sam - I Need A Hundred Dollars
Webern's Five Pieces For Orchestra - Third Movement
La Monte Young - For Brass
Wagner - Rheingold Prelude - Conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch
Monks Of The Kume Tarsang Monastery Of Lhasa , Tibet - The Eternal Voice
Giacinto Scelsi - Trio For Stings
Lou Monte - The Shiek Of Araby
The Harry Simeone Chorale - The Little Drummer Boy
Batuta, Rumania - Batuta, Rumania
Bo Diddley - She's Alright
Howlin' Wolf - I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
James Shorty & Viola James Congregation - Jesus on the Main Line
Khuda Box Mandrani - Lero, Baluchistan
The Swan Silvertones - Trouble In My Way
Miklos Rozsa - Ben Hur - Arrius Party
Miles Davis - So What
Rolf Harris - Sun Arise
Sir Thomas Beecham & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Haydn Symphony No 104 'London' (Spiritoso)
Bo Diddley - Signifying Blues
Yves Klein - Monotone Symphony