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What I'm listening to today: "Tratto II", Bernd Alois Zimmermann

Zimmerman was a mid-1900s German composer whose career seems too large to get a handle on without a visit to the reference library, but the running theme seems to be soaking up like a sponge everything happening in midcentury music from New Music to atonality to jazz. From 1969, here he drops a serene 12-minute "electroacoutic" piece, single notes held for minutes at a time, wallowing in a nameless emotion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ju2N6-XzUQ