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Lovely Music

Robert Ashley and his posse!

About Me

Lovely Music, Ltd. was founded in 1978 by Mimi Johnson and is devoted to recording American experimental/avant-garde music. We have mostly CDs, but there are videotapes of Robert Ashley's operas for television (Music with Roots in the Ether, Atalanta Strategy), and we just released our first DVD, the quintessential opera for television, Perfect Lives. Lastly, we carry a few titles on vinyl and are the US distributor for MusikTexte, a German publisher of books on the avant-garde.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/16/2006
Band Website: lovely.com
Band Members: Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, Jon Hassell, David Behrman, Meredith Monk, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Tom Johnson, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor, Roger Reynolds, Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Paul Dresher, Roscoe Mitchell, William Duckworth, John Cage, Maggi Payne, Takehisa Kosugi, Annea Lockwood, Fast Forward, Joan LaBarbara, Paul DeMarinis, Tom Buckner, Barbara Held, Yasunao Tone, Lois Svard, Leroy Jenkins, David Rosenboom, The DownTown Ensemble, Chris Mann, Jacqueline Humbert
Influences: We are the influences.
Sounds Like: See "members."
Record Label: Lovely Music, Ltd.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

concrete

folks,concrete is now on sale. check it out here:http://www.lovely.com/specials/specials.htmlcheers,harr is
Posted by Lovely Music on Tue, 27 May 2008 01:29:00 PST

new song in player...

lovely people,to whet your appetite for Lovely's next release, i've posted the first track from "Concrete," the opera Robert Ashley premiered last year at La Mama, Etc. in New York. It'll be performed...
Posted by Lovely Music on Wed, 07 May 2008 11:40:00 PST

sound map of the danube is here. concrete is coming.

folks, it's been a long time. to be honest, i totally completely forgot that i even had a blog here. i've been remiss, indeed. so sorry. to make it up to you, i'm writing to let you know what's going ...
Posted by Lovely Music on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:38:00 PST

august's voices.

meredith and joan are on sale until 15 august, 10 bucks each. tracks are up on the lovely page, as well as our own website.be lovely.harris.
Posted by Lovely Music on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:07:00 PST

Interview with Robert Ashley and Keith Waldrop

Mimi took Bob and Keith out to the wilds of New Jersey yesterday to hang out with Kenny Goldsmith. Here's the result:http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=19522&archive=28446&s tarttime=2:02:54Kenny G also ...
Posted by Lovely Music on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:37:00 PST

july's sale

If you like electric guitars, tape loops, drum sets, and piano duos, you are in for a treat, because we're selling Paul Dresher's This Same Temple for ten bucks until 15 July. Check it out....be lovel...
Posted by Lovely Music on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 01:54:00 PST

sale items for your listening pleasure

I've finally got two more tracks up for you! These are from our employee pick of the month sale items I bulletined you about (don't you just love made up verbs?). Have a listen or two...be lovely.Harr...
Posted by Lovely Music on Tue, 30 May 2006 09:18:00 PST

one song for you.

that's right. i managed to upload one song from home. whew! this is more work than i thought... enjoy!be lovely,harris
Posted by Lovely Music on Wed, 24 May 2006 06:06:00 PST

I tried, friends, I tried.

I've been trying all week long to upload songs for your listening pleasure, but the myspace gods have thwarted me, left and right! Please join me in an upload dance in hopes of pleasing the myspace de...
Posted by Lovely Music on Fri, 19 May 2006 05:40:00 PST

Here we are!

Hey folks. I thought it was about time that we joined the 21st century and put up a myspace page. Heck, we've been recording 21st century music since '78, so it's only appropriate. I'll get some track...
Posted by Lovely Music on Wed, 17 May 2006 08:47:00 PST