Jazz, experimental music, punk rock, world music and singers.
Harmless Honest Music Makers who challenge. Especially if you are doing something that isn't likely to make much money.
From very old Pitanjaro Dijeridoo and Inuit Throat chanters on to Guilliaume Dufay and Machaut we go to Gesualdo, Palastrina, Haydn and Beethoven and their kid Schubert, Skillet Lickers,King Oliver, Benny Moten, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Shostakovich, Koto and Haegeum, Max Roach, Sara Vaughn, Sheila Jordon and Betty Carter, Jeanne Lee, Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, Gang of Four, James Chance, Anthony Braxton, Norman Blake, Fully Celebrated Orchestra, Charlie Kohlhase,Abbey Lincoln, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Booker Little and Booker Ervin, Jimmy Lyons, Andrew Cyrille, Heiner Goebbells, Von Zamla, Aq Saq Maboul, Art Zoyd, XTC, Massacre, Hugo Largo, Ali Akbar Cicek, Muszikas, Csaba Okros, Bartok,Boulez and Zappa, X, Maria Papagika, Harry Choates,Moving Targets, The Pogues, Dick Gaughan, Ivor Cutler, Dagmar Krause, Catherine Jaunieux, Albert Marcoeur, Joseph Spence,Milton Cardona, Milton Nascimento, Gilberto Gil, Candomble and Santeria, Spike Jones and Skip James,Cabaret Voltaire,Phone Book, Left Nut, Mente,Earl Hines and James Price Johnson, Eastern Dark, Material,Picchio Del Pazzo and of course the growing friends herein.
Dreams by Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Herzog, Owen O'Toole, Structural Film, Maya Deren,Buster Keaton, Von Trotha, Sally Potter, Malcolm Leggett and nearly anything that isn't Hollywood.
Dog Years by Gunter Grass, Stiffed, Backlash by Susan Faludi, Understanding Media by Marshal McLuhan,St. John Perse, Paterson by William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Dante, The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman,Culture Against Man by Jules Henry, Aristotle's Ethics, A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, Autobiography by Sean O'Casey, the complete W.B. Yeats, Grimmelshausen, Alfred Dobelin, Anna Akhmatova, Music is My Mistress by Duke Ellington, Samuel Beckett. Rachel Carson, Peter Drucker,Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti, Bulghakov, Lermontov, Osip Mandlestam, Lives of the Cell by Lewis Thomas, The Classical Style by Charles Rosen,Mark Twain, James Agee, Lester Bangs, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bruce Catton, Toqueville, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Valery,Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives, Gore Vidal, E.B. White, Henry Beston, grouchy Thoreau,Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutola...
D. Boone, Ornette Coleman, Joe Morris, William Parker, Aumfidelity,Joan as Policewoman, Exene Cervenka,Susan Faludi, Riverbend, Frank Wright....