Carl Stone - Electronic Music From The Seventies And Eighties 3xLP

Our Review: Even amongst fans of minimalism, avant-garde and electro-acoustic music, Carl Stone is not necessarily a household name, but he has worked with a veritable who's-who of the scene – studying under Morton Subotnick at CalArts and working with Phill Niblock, Tetsu Inoue, Joan La Barbara, Otomo Yoshihide, Conlon Nancarrow, Stockhausen and more in various capacities in his 40+ year career. His early career from the '70s until the late '80s saw only one commercial release, the highly regarded Woo Lae Oak, but he was a prolific composer and this set makes available for the first time a vast body of work that encompasses nearly 15 years and a wide variety of styles. Two of his earliest pieces ("LIM" and "Chao Praya") are the only things here composed entirely on synthesizer, the Buchla 200, while everything else incorporates some combination of electronics, live acoustic performances, samples and analog tape manipulation. Of particular interest to Stone has been the manipulation an