Listening to Thor & Friends Wednesday night reminded us that the music we listened to back in the '70s wasn't restricted to only free jazz. Here's a video of a 1968 performance of Harry Partch's Daphne of the Dunes, with the composer Partch himself present.
The LP The World of Harry Partch was one of the touchstone records for us that opened our ears and our minds to a whole new world of the possibilities of music.
If this music sounds "different" to you, it should - this is a completely invented form of music. Partch came up with his own microtonal scales and used impossibly intricate time signatures, and even designed and built the only instruments that could play this music. This is what genius sounds like.
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