Children of the Drone - nine albums
Children of The Drone is an Exeter based musical collective of musicians devoted to totally improvised music. They have placed almost all of their sessions on the internet. Their music is pretty much unclassifiable, using all sort of instruments, traditional and modern acoustic, while borrowing from all genres. If I had to classify the music I could throw around terms like ambient, psychedelic, and psych-folk but this is the kind of music that is best listened to with no expectations. It does tend to get under your skin. There are seven compilations of sessions to choose from simply numbered one to seven. The lower numbered albums are the earlier ones. You can also download a collection of even earlier attempts at improvisations called Opthalmologist Frogspawn and a set of dub based improvisations titled Sort-Of-In-Dub. Any of them make for adventurous listening.
The COTD web site has a music page from which you can access all of their albums or you can use the links below to access them separately from The Internet Archives. Enjoy!
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Compilation 1
Compilation 2
Compilation 3
Compilation 4
Compilation 5
Compilation 6
Compilation 7
Opthalmalogist Frogspawn
Sort-Of-In-Dub
Great music.I’ve heard them before I thought it was here that I found them,I must have been mistaken.
Comment by Jim — September 5, 2009 @ 6:41 pm
I supplied a link to COTD in a post on another free album a while back. That’s probably what you are referring to. I decided to give them their own review.
Comment by Marvin — September 5, 2009 @ 10:04 pm
Readers who like this may find something to like in these…
http://penmallet.blogspot.com/search/label/para_helion
Lots of really nice finds lately.
Comment by icastico — September 6, 2009 @ 6:54 pm
These guys are good
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22A%20Tiny%20Window%22
The hurdy gurdy stuff is really wild
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=saz%20hurdy%20gurdy%20AND%20mediatype%3Aaudio
Comment by Jim — September 9, 2009 @ 12:18 am