Eksjö Musik Encyklopedi

01. Edward Trethowan - Word For World 02:00
02. Kev Hopper - Spoz Cranks 02:00
03. Helen McCookerybook - Quic Fitte 02:00
04. Esbjörn Wettermark - Polka 02:00
05. Weatherglass - Edgeley Illuminations 02:00
06. Dave Clarkson - Cradle 02:00
07. Martin Archer - Macrophonie 02:00
08. Steve Moyes - CLOCK MUSIC II 02:00
09. Eun-Jung Kim & Charlie Collins - A Dream of Clouds 02:00
10. Sean Dower - Since My Baby Left Me 02:00
11. Richard Sanderson - Hither Green 02:00
12. Julie Beman - Bright Image Burned The Light 02:00
13. Churn Milk Joan - Ewe Lifts Mutton 02:00
14. Jude C Montague - Mermaid 02:00
15. Neil Jones - Piano Over Engineering 02:00
16. Chris Whitehead - Aerial 02:00
17. Karl J. Palouček - Pěšky 02:00
18. The Auctioneer - Antique Cricket Table 02:00
19. Dead Voices On Air - Go North Aitor, Go North 02:00
20. skitter - POST 02:00
21. Mark Browne - The Chance Meeting Of A Knife With The Wrong Patient On An Operating Table 02:00
22. Mike Cooper - The Death Of William Gooch 12th May 1792 02:00
23. Clive Pearman - Take The D Train 02:00
24. Michael Holland - Readymade Regent Ramble 02:00
25. Chris Jones - Endless Kant 02:00
26. Consuaala Kuzenstan - Room For Improv (-ment) 02:00
27. Roger Doyle - The Art of Memory 02:00
28. Pete Gomes - Object Relation 02:00
29. Jukka-Pekka Kervinen - if less than 02:00
30. Steve Layton - Agoraphobia 02:00
31. Matt Warren - Dead Letter Office 02:00
32. K.A. Laity - Kinski Butterfly 02:00
33. Clive Niall - How To Look Good Naked 02:00
34. Paul Dunmall and Andy Isham - Lonnie's Lamment 02:00
35. Mixed Porter Session - Officer's Polka 02:00
36. Leo Whetter - Hotel Overground 02:00
37. Destroyevsky - Feeding Me Up 02:00
38. The Borderline Bazaar - Bizarre 02:00
39. Sam Fendrich with Richard Leigh - Tells of Mysteries 02:00
40. Antwerp - Gregorian Kyrie IV 02:00
41. Danielle Quinn - Raise A Glass 02:00
42. Steve Heath - Supporting the Losing Team, then Dinner. 02:00
43. Wade Stone - Oyster Oller 02:00
44. Longstone - Live at 100 Years Gallery -2 min edit. 02:00
45. Howard Jacques - Bath, Tap and Fan 02:00
46. Elizabeth Veldon - A Hand-Wound Victorian Christmas (After Michael Tanner) 02:00
47. Allesandra Falbo - portrait_d 02:00
48. James Kerr - Trains In The Old Days 02:00
49. Tear Fet - Rooms 02:00
50. Erocnet - Waiting For The Coffee 02:00
51. The Earliest Humans - Nästa Gamla Stan 02:00
52. Union Furnace - Joycean Recall 02:00
53. It Will Turn Into A Head - Post Punk 02:00
54. Rob Lawson - RICKT001 02:00
55. Mike Adcock and Sylvia Hallett - Imaginary Dance No. 2 02:00
56. Duncan Goddard - H1FTE 02:00
57. Richard Carr - Dozing of a City 02:00
58. Edward Sanderson - Shanghai Cab 02:00
59. Gavin Parry - 2 Sphygmomanometers And A Radio 02:00
60. Broca Ensemble - Improv #4 02:00
61. Blackheath Morris Men - Practising "Saturday Night" 02:00
62. GF Handle - Drip Music 02:00
63. The Gorn - Locked In 02:00
64. Iris Garrelfs - Dance Of The Mosquitoes 02:00
65. John Bisset - rs 2 mins 02:00
66. DPM357X - Fracked 02:00
67. The Field Family - Silent Nights 02:00
68. Billy Oblivion & The Minstrel Boys - Fat 02:00
69. Richard Longman - Europe v Paradise II 02:00
70. Now - Parapains 02:00
71. Soiled/Marcus H - The Gates of Gable End 02:00
72. Cary Longman - 2 Minutes 01:59 73. Grace Connor - More, More, More 02:00
74. Project Mycelium - Music From A Steel Bowl Full Of Water 02:00
75. Sonofapup - Neversong 02:00
76. Phil Hollins - Two Minutes On The Train 02:00
77. Vincent Doherty - HorseChestnutGone 02:00
78. Sue Ferrar - Waiting for Geminids in the Argentinian Pampas 02:00
79. Steve Dinsdale - My Life With A Bunch Of Goats 02:00
80. Whitney & Paradise - Alone 02:00
81. Neil Gordon-Orr - 120 Seconds Over Ladywell Fields 02:00
82. Steven Ball - Microphone 02:00
83. Bermuda Triangle Test Engineers - Afterbarn 02:00
84. Falconetti - Milla 02:00
85. Paco Rossique - Sombra Binocular Obsessional 02:00
86. Susanita - Evening in the Pampas 02:00
87. Constantine Dinos Michaelides - After The Death of the Last Star, Fragmented Memories from the Infinite Past Linger in the Void 02:00

"Two Minutes Left"

A compilation of tracks all exactly two minutes long, and all using microphones somewhere in the process....

Please see the PDF booklet which comes with the download for full details and further information on all the tracks.

These 87 tracks were all sent to me in response to a call for works issued on the Linear Obsessional blog.

My two rules were that the works had to be exactly two minutes long, and that at some point in the recording process a microphone should have been used - in other words, before the sounds presented here reach your ears they have, in some way, travelled through air.

The reasons for these rules were rather prosaic - two minutes to keep the collection short (that was before I realised it was going to have 87 tracks!) and it's a discipline I enjoy- see the earlier compilation of remixes "Button Box". The insistence on using a microphone was to discourage completely electronic works, and to bring in some domestic elements- to give the recordings a sense of place.

The results, as you can hear are as diverse as it's possible to imagine- from full, immaculately produced studio works to hissy smartphone recordings- and throughout there are things to remind you that you're listening to real people in real places - birdsong, pets, breathing, conversation, and the location recordings run from the electrobabble of a Shanghai cab ride to the near silence of night on the Argentinian Pampas, to the sounds of the pub or a football match. In between are some gloriously recorded musical vignettes by some of the most extraordinary musicians around.

I really am delighted with this compilation, it seems to me to be ultimately a celebration of being human, and a celebration of friendship and collaboration. There are some people on here I've known since pre-school days, others I've only got to know via social media, some are people I've played music with for decades, others are my neighbours.

There's a lot to listen to - choose your own way of doing it - all in one go, or dipping in, from one end to the other, or on shuffle play, but if you like something, I suggest you do an internet search, look up the artists and see what else they have to offer. You won't be disappointed.

-Richard Sanderson 23/12/2014