La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela - Dream House 78'17" CD

This reissue of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela’s Dream House 78’17” takes out my pick for the “Best Listen While Sweeping The Shop Floor” award.

All these snobs that think that minimalism is a music made to sit and stroke your chin to are missing out. Hypnotic drones and slow moving, tightly intonated sine waves are made all the more better by our weird speaker set up in the shop (hi fi nerds be damned) with them placed in opposite corners with one speaker higher than the other, moving around while sweeping really brings out the minimalist’s idea of making the physicality of music and sound more evident.

My only question is, who swept the Dream House?

-Mitch