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The few recordings of La Monte Young

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Qualifications: there's more here than I expected to find

Inside the Dream Syndicate, Vol. I: Day of Niagara by John Cale
Used & New from: $59.88
This is a bootleg unapproved by La Monte Young of "25 IV 65 c. 8:15-8:45 PM NYC Day of Niagra from The Tortoise, His Dreams and Journeys". Poor sound quality &only 30' long so buyer beware on this one

Just Stompin': Live at the Kitchen by Young, Lamonte
Used & New from: $59.99
A 1993 2CD set of La Monte Young's Forever Bad Blues Band performing "93 I 14 ca. 8:54 - ca. 10:54 PM NYC Young's Dorian Blues in G (Bb=60Hz) (c. 1960-61-present)" at the Kitchen in NYC in early 1993.

Just Stompin by Forever Blues Band
Used & New from: $98.97
The FBBB are La Monte Young, Korg synthesizer, Jon Catler, just intonation & fretless guitar, Brad Catler, just intonation & fretless bass, Jonathan Kane, drums & Marian Zazeela, lighting design.

The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From the Four Dreams of Chin by La Monte Young
Used & New from: $95.00
"90 XII 9 c. 9:35-10:52 PM NYC The Melodic Version (1984) of The Second Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China (1962)" was a 1991 CD from Gramavision.

The Second Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer by La Monte Young
Used & New from: $149.97
"The Melodic Version of the Second Dream..." is performed by The Theatre of Eternal Music Brass Ensemble of 8 trumpets with Harmon Mutes led by Ben Neill. La Monte Young himself does not perform here.

LaMonte Young: The Well-Tuned Piano 81 X 25, 6:17:50 - 11:18:59 PM NYC by La Monte Young
Used & New from: $499.00
The Gramavision 5CD/LP/Cassette release of Young's masterwork has been long out of print and sometimes fetches astronomical prices via Amazon used dealers or zshops or on ebay.

The Well-Tuned Piano by La Monte Young
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Another listing for the out of print Gramavision release. Also look for the 6+ hr DVD version of a 1987 performance on the Just Dreams label. Try MELA Foundation for instance.

La Monte Young: Midnight; Raga Malkauns by Just Dreams
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Vocalist Pandit Pran Nath's 2 recordings of the midnight raga Malkauns in a 1971 SF live performance and a 1976 NYC studio performance. The latter has La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela on tamburas. JD#3

La Monte Young: The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath, An Homage by Just Dreams
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La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela on tamburas in a 74' 1982 recording released on CD in 2000 on the Young/Zazeela supervised Just Dreams label. JD#1.

Ragas of Morning & Night by Pandit Pran Nath
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The 1968 recording by Pandit Pran Nath & ensemble had a brief 1986 release on Gramavision Records with a production & liner notes by La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela. Young himself does not play on it.

Terry Riley: Music For The Gift; Bird of Paradise; Mescalin Mix by Luigi Trussardi

$16.98

La Monte Young joins his good friend Terry Riley at the live concert recording from 1960 of Riley's piece "Two Pianos Five Tape Recorders".

In Good Company by Jon Gibson
Used & New from: $18.99
La Monte Young on digital piano joins soprano saxophonist Jon Gibson on the track "Terry's G Dorian Blues" actually "Terry's G Dorian 12-Bar Blues (9 x 5) + 3" by Terry Jennings (1962).

USA by John Cage

$14.98

Contains an early serialist work of La Monte Young's called "Five Small Pieces for String Quartet: On Remembering A Naiad" (1956).

U.S.A. by Arditti String Quartet
Used & New from: $17.00
Some earlier edition copies of the Arditti String Quartet's "U.S.A." disc are still available with the black and white cover photo.

USA:Nancarrow/Carter/Ives/Yim/Feldman by Arditti String Quartet
$13.99 Used & New from: $10.26
This is another listing of the Arditti String Quartet's "U.S.A." release which includes La Monte Young's "Five Small Pieces for String Quartet: On Remembering A Naiad" (1956)

Just West Coast by John Schneider

$16.99 Used & New from: $16.05

This has a realisation of La Monte Young's work for any instruments "Sarabande" (1959) on just intonation guitar and harp.

OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music by Various Artists - Dance & DJ - Electronica
Used & New from: $33.00
You can get a fragment here from a recording of "Map of 49's Dream...", possibly from the Shandar or Edition X releases.

Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music Special Edition 3CD + DVD by Maryanne Amacher
$40.48 Used & New from: $36.07
This is a recent (Oct. 2005) reissue of the above disc set including the excerpt from La Monte Young's "Map of 49's Dream..."/"Drift Study".

Historical Recordings 1968-1998 by Adam
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This has 2 realizations of La Monte Young's "Compositions 1960 #7" which is the perfect fifth chord B - F# "to be held for a very long time". Hint: both are ca. 30 seconds, so listen to the sound clip

Four Musical Minimalists : La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Keith Potter
$31.99 Used & New from: $21.99
To fill up this list, until other recordings might become available, I have added several books that have major sections devoted to La Monte Young.

Sound and Light: La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela by William Duckworth
$30.00
This excellent 1996 book is a collection of articles by Terry Riley, John Schaefer, Henry Flynt, Catherine Hennix, Mitchell Clark, Kyle Gann, Ben Neill & Robert Palmer & Young/Zazeela themselves.

Minimalism: Origins by Edward Strickland
$19.95 Used & New from: $11.00
Strickland's 1993 book provides an excellent overview of all sorts of minimalist art forms including information on La Monte Young.

Experimental Music : Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Michael Nyman
$29.99 Used & New from: $14.99
Composer Michael Nyman's 1974 book again available in this reprint edition contains several pages related to La Monte Young, especially his Fluxus movement compositions.

Minimalists (20th Century Composers) by Schwarz
$15.72
The Schwarz book focuses mostly on Steve Reich and Philip Glass but the opening chapter is on La Monte Young and Terry Riley.

American Minimal Music: LA Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass by Wim Mertens
$19.95
Composer Wim Merten's book has a featured section on La Monte Young.

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