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February 3, 2012 05:34 pm PST
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Taj Mahal Travelers: Japanese ambient music from the early 1970s
In 1969, Fluxus artist/musician Takehisa Kosugi formed the Taj Mahal Travelers, an octet of Japanese musicians whose used traditional instruments like violin, double bass, tuba, trumpet, and mandolin in non-traditional ways and run through early electronic effects systems. Their compelling drone improvisations were decidedly different and, to my ears, more unsettling than the other avant-garde [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ijftgKO1fho/taj-mahal-travelers-japanese.html
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