"It is so simple an effect and yet there is something eternal about it, sort of a foundation of music." - Sandy Bull describing drone, a fundamental element of his style
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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandy Bull | Blend | Fantasias For Guitar and Banjo | Vanguard | 1963 | 22-minute psychedelic folk odyssey featuring Ornette Coleman drummer Billy Higgins, predating the Beatles' psychedelic turn and contemporaneous to American Primitivism pioneer John Fahey's work. |
| Djeli Moussa Diawara | Fote Mogoban | Djeli Moussa Diawara | Tangent | 1983 | Traditional Mande Griot music from Guinea featuring 21-string kora playing. Preservation of West African oral history through musical storytelling. |
| Enrique Morente | Tu Vienes Vendieno Flora (Solea) | Despegando | CBS | 1977 | A late-70s flamenco track from Spain's most influential contemporary flamenco singer, captured just before his controversial experimental turn that would continuously bring him criticism from purists. |
| Pharoah Sanders | Red, Black & Green | Thembi | Impulse! | 1971 | Nine minutes of Sanders at his most experimental, pushing beyond his signature free-ish spiritual jazz into harsher "out" territory. Still maintaining the transcendent spirituality that defined his legendary late-60s/70s run. |
