| A Brief Listening/Viewing/Reading Guide I think this all relates back to show and tell back in kindergarten. You get excited about things and want to share them with others. I had a popular world and experimental music radio show on KPFA in Berkely for about 15 years. I really enjoyed sharing various musical "discoveries" with my listeners. On my first studio solo guitar LP, ALOHA, I included a list of essential listening to give folks an idea of where I was coming from. With similar purposes in mind, I'd like to share some things with you here that I'm excited about and other things that of influenced my own personal expression over the years. This page is always under construction; so I'll just list a few absolutely essential and influential things for you here. MY PRIMARY MUSICAL INFLUENCES Derek Bailey; British Free Improvisation of the 1970's; Captain Beefheart and his Magic Bands 1966-1972; South East Asian Traditional Musics: Korea, Vietnam, Japan & Burma; North Indian Classical Music; The Grateful Dead; Conlon Nancarrow; Gyorgi Ligeti; American Rural and Urban Blues Continuum; John Fahey & Robbie Basho; Evan Parker; Terry Riley; Chinese Gu Qin Music; Cecil Taylor;The Music of Madagascar; Albert Ayler.
A FEW OF MY MOST FAVORITE GUITARISTS Derek Bailey, John Fahey, Hubert Sumlin, Jerry Garcia, Robert Pete Williams, Sonny Sharrock, Bill Harkleroad, Eliot Ingber, Eugene Chadbourne, Ry Cooder, Pete Cosey, David Lindley, Richard Thompson, Terje Rypdal, John McLaughlin, Peter Green, BB King, Glenn Phillips, Robben Ford, Joseph Spence, FreddieRoulette, Bri Bhushan Kabra and Robbie Basho.
A FEW OTHER TOP FAVORITE INSTRUMENTALISTS Evan Parker, Terry Riley, Cecil Taylor, Miles Davis, Anthony Braxton, John Stevens, John Oswald, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Tony Oxley, Marilyn Crispell, Ali Akbar Khan, Buddev Das Gupta, Phil Lesh, Mia Masaoka, Greg Goodman, Danielle DeGruttola, Lukas Ligeti, Mark McQuade-Crawford, Sang-Won Park, The Dagar Brothers and Wadada Leo Smith.
MY MOST FAVORITE "CLASSICAL COMPOSERS" Conlon Nancarrow, Iannis Xenakis, Terry Riley, Toru Takemitsu, Karlheinz Stockhausen , Charles Ives, Anthony Braxton, Lou Harrison, Gyorgi Ligeti and Giacinto Scelsi.
SOME FAVORITE FILM DIRECTORS Akira Kurosawa, Andrey Tarkovsky, Jordan Belson, Preston Sturges, Sam Fuller, Douglas Sirk, Kon Ichikawa, Masahiro Shinoda, Ishiro Honda, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, Nicholas Ray, Anthony Mann, John Alton, Robert Altman, Robert Aldrich, John Ford, Douglas Sirk, Stanley Kubrick, Jacques Tournier, John Pierre Melville, Luis Bunuel, etc.
SOME FAVORITE FICTION WRITERS Samuel R. Delany, Jack Vance, Gene Wolfe, R. A. Lafferty, Patrick O'Brian, Lawrence Norfolk, Thomas Pynchon, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, James Ellroy, Joanna Russ, J.G. Farrell, John Crowley, Fritz Leiber, Peter Dickinson, Janwillem van de Wetering, Diana Wynne Jones, Daniel Pinkwater, B. Traven, Edward Hoagland, Russell Hoban, David Lindsay, Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, John LeCarre, Theodore Sturgeon, Avram Davidson, Howard Waldrop, C.J. Cherryh, James Houston, etc.
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