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Brian Eno, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Sun Ra, Fela Kuti, John Coltrane, Steve Reich, John Adams, Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Plaid, The Orb, Ivor Cutler, Burt Bacharach, Frank Sinatra, Nelson Riddle, Harry Partch, JS Bach, Stravinsky, Monteverdi, Smetana, John Cage, Can, Holger Czukay, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, The Beach Boys, Bernard Parmegianni, Terry Riley, King Tubby, Morton Subotnick, Amon Tobin, Walter/Wendy Carlos, Godspeed, John Fahey, Arvo Part, Karftwerk, Delia Derbyshire, Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, HariPrasad Chaurasia, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Medeski Martin & Wood, This Heat, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Augustus Pablo, Robert Fripp, Gavin Bryars, Jon Hassell, Aphex Twin, Herbie Hancock, Ennio Morricone, Bernard Herrman, Black Dog, Eric Satie, Morton Feldman.........
and that's just for starters.
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Commissioned from Tom Green by the Royal Infirmary, Bristol UK, for ambient level playback in the ancillary areas of a new scanner installation, it's specifically written to calm young children before and after scanning, since the Royal Children's Hospital is next door.
Incorporating dense textures of natural sounds, interweaved with fragments of melody (and no obvious rhythm or drums) it works very nicely on adults too, especially for yoga and meditation, or just plain old chilling out....
Recently featured on BBC RADIO 3 LATE JUNCTION by MAX REINHARDT.
Bless 'im ... cheers, Max !
Judge for yourself on the retro player below - these samples are edits from the three 20 minute tracks.
MUSIC FOR MRI SCANNERS (click the small 'play' arrow under the cassette label)
(....as a mate recently said- "mmmm.... 'green thought in green shade', without the drums...lovely job")
ANOTHER FINE DAY- what those luvvly critics have to say....
'LIFE BEFORE LAND' (album 1994/2004)
"...working in his Brixton back room with the minimal street-tech resources of a million other wired bedrooms, Tom Green sucks forms out of air, giving audio shape to the feeling of a sitting on a curve of sand, synchronising to tidal, primal sound loops..." DAVID TOOP, BEYOND press release 7/94
"...a fine example of the new eclecticism...this ambitious project succeeds through its ability to sound natural and supremely relaxed but challenging at the same time" ON MAGAZINE 9/94
"...talking of "ambient", there's some music in that genre that is so well made and easy on the ear that there's not much more to say. The excellent Life Before Land by Another Fine Day, is a case in point. " JOHN L WATERS, in THE GUARDIAN 10/7/05
"...this is music that I can't ever imagine not being part of my life."PETE LAWRENCE/THE BIG CHILL 8/04
'Life Before Land' was voted No 3 in THE INDEPENDENT'S "Best Ambient Albums" chart 7/05
'SALVAGE' (album 2000)
"Green creates a lovely and inviting sheen...even the traditional Shona piece "Cutting Branches" sounds likes it took a left turn into a Parisian cafe in space."US BILLBOARD 26/8/00
"...before playing this lighter-than-air disc, you'd be well advised to nail your speakers to the floor." US JAZZ TIMES 2/01
"An essential release for any fan of downtempo, chill-out, or global contemplation" WAX 3/01
"...a gorgeously chilled collection of well-earthed tracks...It's like shopping organic in the supermarket, you get used to it 'cos you know it's good for you" DJ MAGAZINE 2/6/01
"...pure English summer, Big Chill, Enchanted Garden music...unique, interesting, and great for Sundays." MUZIK 7/01
TOM GREEN has also contributed to 5 albums by seminal ambient pioneers THE ORB, along with occasional mad blasts on Orb collaborator Simon Phillips' project PRAYERBOX, as well as celtic crossover artists BAKA BEYOND and David Bickley's HYPERBOREA, (though it has to be said that those 2 artists have very different ideas about what is 'celtic crossover'...)
He has also collaborated further with David on the ambient album 'Erebus & Terror'-find it at
Thanks for the add, I love your music btw!
If you get a chance, please take a listen to our first New Age release "Instrumental Piano Music" by Solo Piano Relaxing Music. We'd love to know what you think of it!
Regards
LR
Dear Tom. The time flies mate eh ? Hope you are well over there. With respect, might I place this ad with you ? My new album was the 'featured' album on this weeks show ! My blog has all the details to download it and listen at your leisure Thought you might like a listen All the best bud Your 'music for MRI scans' sounds very interesting !
We hope you can come to our gig at Bush Hall, Shepherd's Bush on Friday. Spread the word to your friends. It'll be a great party.
Its the launch party for our new album "Baka Beyond the Forest" that was released on Monday
You can hear clips on our website (www.baka.co.uk) and our Myspace page.
One Love!
Thanks :-)
My respect for your work aswell: warm original soundscapes great produced!
My music will be available as netdownloads soon
All the best
Carsten