Avant Garde Project torrent 167 is up and running

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AGP167 is a 24-bit, 44.1 kHz transcription of a long out-of-print 2LP set of The Complete Music of Carl Ruggles (CBS Masterworks M2 34591). This set has never been re-issued on CD, nor is there any other commercially available collection of these works, which is just weird and shows up the occasional glaring shortcomings of the traditional system for distributing music.

Ruggles was a contemporary and close friend of Charles Ives, who had something of the same streak of staunch individualism in both life and art. Unlike Ives, he composed slowly and painstakingly, and so produced only a small collection of compositions. In later life, he devoted more of his creative energy to painting and drawing than to music.

I would have included this set in the AGP long ago, but I'd always assumed it had been reissued on CD or at least that there was another CD collection of these works. The same devoted AGP partisan who provided the CD transcription for AGP162 recently called my attention to the fact that this set is out of print.

Check it out at:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5338389

Enjoy!

[UB]

Wonderful set of the music of a fine composer. I have had the LPs for many years but thanks for making it available in a clean digital format.

[Guido]

Thank you so much for this!! I have been wanting to hear this for 5 years now!!