Listened to Yoshi Wada- Off The Wall on the subway this morning, and am completely stunned. High-intensity bagpipes-and-timpani drone madness. Not for the faint of heart or timid of ear. Sort of reminiscent of some of the woolier Terry Riley stuff.
On a similar linking-to-Root-Blog-for-intense-drone-purposes note, I highly recommend Sitaar Tah!, in which that high-sparkly-overtone-hiss you hear with one sitar is replaced by a gigantic sinus-clearing wilderness of gorgeous resonant overtone sound using twenty sitars:
Both of the above magick musicks may totally ruin some folks' day. And make others'. Or, in my case, just right for some days, and totally wrong for others. So don't blame me if you aren't up for the brain-melt. (But let me know if you love it, though of course Root Blog and Ubuweb are the real sources, I'm just a recommender).
While I'm at it, here's a less noisy but possibly even more wonderful Ubuweb link (which I think Captain Meltmaster clued me into originally- Thanks Dan!)--
Pandit Pran Nath, whose gigantic gentle voice creates universes:
And another Pran Nath link, again via Root Blog:
At this point it should go without saying that I'm a big fan of Root Blog. And, um, cosmic drone.
With the Sitaar Tah link: make sure you have a good working antivirus, I've noticed that SendSpace (the file host) tends to feature popup ads that try to install viruses on your PC! Avast works just fine for me, and blocks it every time. But I'd hate to indirectly cause your computer to get infected.
In fact, let me just say, if you don't have a fully operational antivirus, please go immediately and get
AVG Free or
Avast Free now. My professional life as a computer geek won't interfere much with this blog, but this is essential and should be done before anything else.
Possibly the exact midpoint between Bjork and Nico. With spectacularly creative, minimal, instrumentation. In French.
I have a pretty vivid memory of buying this on cassette when I was 12 years old and listening to it in the house I lived in then. I'm pretty sure that's not possible, as I listened pretty exclusively to 80s hair metal until I was 13 and a half or so. The only thing I can think of, is, Sarah Vaughan enables time travel.
Gorgeous and mellow and sweet. Johnny Hartman was a no-longer-commercially-viable crooner; John Coltrane an up-and-coming young radical. Coltrane sought out Hartman to make this album, which showcases the absolute loveliness of both artists' sound. 
Found an LP version of this in a crappy overpriced-junk store in my neighborhood in Queens. What I'm posting though isn't that (I digitized it but badly, and it sounded dull & quiet, so I downloaded it) but the first half of a CD re-release. (The second half was all newer stuff and bonus tracks, and I really like albums that feel like albums.)
