Tycho - Dive - Orange/redORANGE RED. While his formative years were spent listening to everything from Yes to Photek, Scott Hansen didn't get his hands on an actual guitar or drum machine until he left his native Sacramento for San Francisco in 1995. "Encountering this whole new world at 20 years old was a profound experience," says Hansen, better known by his musical pseudonym Tycho and as the graphic artist ISO50. "At the time, I was just learning the processes of design

it's purity of movement and it's sheer energy make this a ballet of remarkable density

and that made Chicagoans take note

led by Vladimir Spivakov in a famous recording of Schnittke's Hieronymus Bosch Fragments

the Miskito have developed a way of life directly linked to their reliance on the abundant wildlife that inhabits the rivers and ocean as well as the land that they cultivate in the tropical forest and clearing in the interior

Angry RV Salesman Jack Rebney

You might think this is just music for musicians but upon first listen the appeal is immediate to the casual roots fan as well

and Dave Gregory masquerading as 'lost' '60s psych band called The Dukes of Stratosphear

is not easy to acquire

and the virtually unknown 45 on Fenton is nice original material

San Giovanni Crisostomo here released for the first time was conceived for more intimate resources and yet perfectly expresses the modernity of the oratorio genre as it appeared in the second half of the 17th century

"Probably the single most underrated songwriter of the last 50 years"Neil Gaiman

hardly leaving the classical path of harmonies