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Daily Euphony: “The Way You Dream (feat. Michael Stipe)” from 1 Giant Leap

Daily Euphony: Igor Stravinsky - Otche Nash (Our Father)

I thought I’d post another version of Our Father today, mainly because I feel a little bit guilty about picking on Christianity. But secondarily, both compositions are beautiful, and they’re both excellent examples of Russian liturgical music. And it’s Sunday. I hope you enjoy them both.

Daily Euphony: Nikolai Kedrov Sr.  - Otche Nash (Our Father)

Daily Euphony: Alan Hovhaness - Lousadzak (Keith Jarrett, piano)
from the album Mysterious Mountain, Lousadzak

Alan Hovhaness ranks among the most intrepid of musical explorers in 20th century classical music. He was a widely recorded and lauded American composer in the 1950s and 60s, and since the 1990s continues to enjoy something of a revival on CD. Yet there is little scholarly commentary on Hovhaness despite the wealth of radical individuality in some phases of his six decades of creativity. This is somewhat surprising given that during the 1940s and 50s he was firmly entrenched within that maverick group of American composers (others included Henry Cowell, Jonn Cage and Lou Harrison) who spearheaded one of the great shifts in twentieth century American music, namely that of looking to non-Western cultures for creative renewal in art music. In particular, Hovhaness also spearheaded quasi-aleatoric texture as early as the 1940s.

-The Alan Hovehaness Website

NOTE: If you’re not used to modern music, hang in there until about 1/3 of the way through where the piece really takes off and shifts into a more tonal style.

Daily Euphony: Cowboy Junkies - A Common Disaster
from the album Lay it Down

Daily Euphony: Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Cyhria
from the album Lontano

Daily Euphony: Bon Iver - Flume
from the album For Emma, Forever Ago

Daily Euphony: Avishai Cohen - Remembering
from the album At Home

Daily Euphony: Ben Frost - Theory of Machines
from the album Theory of Machines

This song feels like my life right now.

Daily Euphony: David Holmes - Tub Scene
from the Out of Sight original soundtrack