V/A : The roots of drone

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  Utilised in genres as disparate as modern and traditional classical, folk, techno, Chicago blues and even heavy metal, the repetition of a single note or chord of fixed pitch – otherwise referred to as a ‘drone’ – serving as permanent focus in a given opus, has graced as many compositions as it has influenced others. Having first been introduced into contemporary ‘rock’ forms by the Velvet Underground in the early 1960s, its ongoing attraction to each new generation of musicians and writers does nothing if not emphasise its enormous importance in musical score.

  DISC ONE

  1. Fiddlin’ Eck Robertson – Sally Goodin 2. Pipe Major Macintosh – Pibroch o’ Donald Dubh 3. Veena Dhanammal – Nijamarmamulan Raga Umabharanam 4. Austin Coleman, Joe Washington & Group – Good Lord (Run Old Jeremiah) 5. The Original Uday Shankar Company of Hindu Musicians – Raga Bhairava 6. George Formby – Hindoo Man 7. The Pipes & Drums of the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards – Skye Boat Song 8. John Cage – 4.33 9. John Lee Hooker – Wandering Blues 10. Efisio Melis – Mediana 11. The Borodin Quartet – Shostakovich String Quartet #4 in D, Op 83-4 Allegretto 12. Clarence Ashley – The Coo-Coo Bird 13. Floyd Jones – On the Road Again 14. Sam Cooke & the Soul Stirrers – Come and Go To That Land 15. Muddy Waters – Manish Boy 16. Ravi Shankar – Raga Simhendra Madhyamam 17. Wam Tribe New Guinea – Live Beetle Jew’s Harp

  DISC TWO

  1. One String Sam – I Need A Hundred Dollars 2. Webern’s Five Pieces for Orchestra – Third Movement 3. La Monte Young – For Brass 4. Richard Wagner – Rheingold Prelude – Conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch 5. Monks of the Kume Tarsang Monastery of Lhasa, Tibet – The Eternal Voice 6. Giacinto Scelsi – Trio for Strings 7. Lou Monte – The Shiek of Araby 8. The Harry Simeone Chorale – The Little Drummer Boy 9. Batuta, – Rumania 10. Bo Diddley – She’s Alright 11. Howlin’ Wolf – I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline) 12. James Shorty & Viola James Congregation – Jesus on the Main Line 13. Khuda Box Mandrani – Lero, Baluchistan 14. The Swan Silvertones – Trouble in My Way 15. Miklos Rozsa – Ben Hur – Arrius Party (Original Soudtrack) 16. Miles Davis – So What 17. Rolf Harris – Sun Arise 18. Haydn Symphony No 104 ‘London’ (Spiritoso) – Sir Thomas Beecham & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 19. Bo Diddley – Signifying Blues 20. Yves Klein – Monotone Symphony