the first side of la monte young's black record is blowing me away tonight. i love it when a peice of music just up and plasters a grin of pure enjoyment on my face. i've been obsessed with throat droning all week, i had to stop myself from belting it out along with him (some dude is asleep on our couch, damn it).

i think this recording is the closest i've come to finding my ideal of super minimal yet hefty and rich sounding drone (not that i've looked very hard (recommendation welcome)): ambient that's not ephemeral is as close as i can come to pinning down what i'm after. he varies the vocals a little too frequently for my taste (ideally i'd like to hear something that varies approx 10x as slow), but that's being overly picky i think.

the only thing wrong with it is that at 23 minutes it's FAR, FAR too short. does anyone know if any long-ass tapes of similar sessions exist/are bootlegged? i've been looping it but as a solution it's far from ideal. i think i might try to solve this prob and get that slower tempo by just playing the thing back at a much slower speed. it will be all bass-y i guess, but that's a plus in general in my book as well.

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update: wow. playing with this track in live was really fun. i need to do that more often.

also, if anyone wants to buy my love, feel free.