The Music Tapes

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Hacidem (nephew/uncle/saw/accordian) 00:00 Tools
Majesty 00:00 Tools
Saw Ping Pong And Orchestra 00:00 Tools
Schedrevka 00:00 Tools
Freeing Song for Reindeer 00:00 Tools
Freeing Song By Reindeer 00:00 Tools
The Dark Is Singing Songs (Sleepy Time Down South) 00:00 Tools
Tornado Longing For Freedom 00:00 Tools
The Minister of Longitude 00:00 Tools
Playing ''Evening'' 00:00 Tools
Song for Soon To Be Sailor 00:00 Tools
Song for Oceans Falling 00:00 Tools
Kolyada #1 00:00 Tools
Kolyada #2 00:00 Tools
S' Alive (Pt. 1) 00:00 Tools
Saw and Calliope Organ on Wire 00:00 Tools
Julian And Grandpa 00:00 Tools
Manifest Destiny 00:00 Tools
In an Ice Palace 00:00 Tools
Song of the Nomad Lost 00:00 Tools
Nimbus Stratus Cirrus 00:00 Tools
An Orchistration's Overture 00:00 Tools
Aliens 00:00 Tools
"Pulled out to Sea..." 00:00 Tools
March of the Father Fists 00:00 Tools
The Big Beautiful Shops (It's Said That It Could Be Anyone) 00:00 Tools
Nomad Tell Us 00:00 Tools
Spare the Dark Streets 00:00 Tools
The Television Tells Us 00:00 Tools
What the Single Made the Needle Sing 00:00 Tools
Song of 100 Castles 00:00 Tools
To All Who Say Goodnight 00:00 Tools
Kolyada #3 00:00 Tools
Takeshi and Elijah 00:00 Tools
City of Lights 00:00 Tools
Sea's Song for Sailor 00:00 Tools
Song for the Death of Parents 00:00 Tools
The Clapping Hands 00:00 Tools
1st Imaginary Symphony By Vaccume Cleaner 00:00 Tools
Cumulonimbus 00:00 Tools
S' Alive to Be Known (May We Starve) 00:00 Tools
Wishing Well at Caper's End 00:00 Tools
Fanfare for the Speeding Bullet 00:00 Tools
A Warning! 00:00 Tools
Go Home Again 00:00 Tools
So the Day Long 00:00 Tools
Cumulonimbus (Magnetic Tape for Clouds) 00:00 Tools
A Lightning's Cheeks (Everything Gets Born Here) 00:00 Tools
1st Imaginary Symphony for Vaccume Cleaner 00:00 Tools
Nimbus Stratus Cirrus (Mr.Piano’s Majestic Haircut) 00:00 Tools
Nantasket 00:00 Tools
Nimbus Stratus Cirrus (Mr. Piano's Majestic Haircut) 00:00 Tools
3 00:00 Tools
Night and Day 00:00 Tools
J'Attendrai 00:00 Tools
Where Evening's Dream Goes 00:00 Tools
I've Got My Love 00:00 Tools
try2 00:00 Tools
All Tomorrow's Parties 00:00 Tools
The 2nd Imaginary Symphony For Cloudmaking 00:00 Tools
For the Planet Pluto 00:00 Tools
Hacidem (feat. Evan Harlan) 00:00 Tools
An Orchetration's Overture 00:00 Tools
Smoke Is a Fireman's Friend 00:00 Tools
Please Hear Mr. Flight Control 00:00 Tools
Freeing Song By Reigndeer 00:00 Tools
Second Imaginary Symphony for Cloud Making 00:00 Tools
Why is the President Crying? 00:00 Tools
Hacidem 00:00 Tools
Please Hear Me Mr. Flight Control! 00:00 Tools
Songs for Oceans Falling 00:00 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
Nigh 00:00 Tools
The Dark is Singing Songs 00:00 Tools
Intermission (Pt. 1) 00:00 Tools
Mr. Ackerman I 00:00 Tools
Nimbus Stratus Cirrus (Mr.Piano‚s Majestic Haircut) 00:00 Tools
The Music Tapes - Majesty 00:00 Tools
Intermission (Pt. 2) 00:00 Tools
Mr. Ackerman II 00:00 Tools
Story of the Factory 00:00 Tools
Purim's Shadows - 3 00:00 Tools
Nimbus Stratus Cirrus (Mr. Piano’s Majestic Haircut) 00:00 Tools
Night and Day: A Song to The Nightime and The Daytime 00:00 Tools
Secret 00:00 Tools
Briefcase 00:00 Tools
Koldaya #1 00:00 Tools
Raincoat II 00:00 Tools
Raincoat I 00:00 Tools
Factory II 00:00 Tools
S' Alive, Part 1 00:00 Tools
Outro Music 00:00 Tools
Morning 00:00 Tools
Factory I 00:00 Tools
City 00:00 Tools
(Julian's Dad Playes Gutiar) 00:00 Tools
'Pulled Out to Sea...' 00:00 Tools
4 (Jeff, Jill, and Julian Serenade Rudy on the Beach at Nantasket) 00:00 Tools
clapping hands 00:00 Tools
Playing 'Evening' 00:00 Tools
05 - Nimbus Stratus Cirrus 00:00 Tools
What the Single Made the Needl 00:00 Tools
The First Noel 00:00 Tools
1st Imaginary Symphony For Vacuum Cleaner 00:00 Tools
Enlightenment (live) 00:00 Tools
1st Imaginary Symphony For 00:00 Tools
The Music Tapes - Saw Ping Pong and Orchestra 00:00 Tools
A Warning 00:00 Tools
09 - Kolyada No 1 00:00 Tools
The Music Tapes - Schedrevka 00:00 Tools
The Music Tapes - Song for Oceans Falling 00:00 Tools
When It's Sleepy Time Down South 00:00 Tools
An Orchestrations Ouverture 00:00 Tools
The Music Tapes - Freeing Song by Reindeer 00:00 Tools
The Music Tapes - Tornado Longing for Freedom 00:00 Tools
(intro) 00:00 Tools
2 Song Of The Nomad Lost 00:00 Tools
The Music Tapes - Nimbus Stratus Cirrus 00:00 Tools
The Music Tapes - Kolyada No 2 00:00 Tools
The Music Tapes - Kolyada No 1 00:00 Tools
"Secret to Snowing" 00:00 Tools
Intermission, Pt. 2 (Silent Track - No Audio) 00:00 Tools
(story 2) 00:00 Tools
(story 1) 00:00 Tools
13 - Cumulonimbus 00:00 Tools
'Pulled Out to Sea' 00:00 Tools
The Music Tapes - Freeing Song for Reindeer 00:00 Tools
12 - Kolyada No 2 00:00 Tools
Please Hear Mr Flight Control 00:00 Tools
Minister of Longitude (live at Awkwardcore Studios) 00:00 Tools
Takeshi & Elijah 00:00 Tools
2nd Imaginary Symphony for Cloud Making 00:00 Tools
Television Tells Us 00:00 Tools
Wishing Well at Capers End 00:00 Tools
The Music Tapes - Manifest Destiny 00:00 Tools
Intermission, Pt. 1 (Silent Track - No Audio) 00:00 Tools
(The Seven-Foot-Tall Metronome) 00:00 Tools
3 Aliens 00:00 Tools
The Music Tapes - The Minister of Longitude 00:00 Tools
The Music Tapes - Cumulonimbus 00:00 Tools
Secret to Snowing 00:00 Tools
1 The Television Tells Us 00:00 Tools
Too All Who Say Goodnight 00:00 Tools
2nd Imaginary Symphony 00:00 Tools
Jesus Blood 00:00 Tools
Song For Ocean's Falling 00:00 Tools
Enlightenment 00:00 Tools
The Music Tapes - Julian and Grandpa 00:00 Tools
4 Tornado Longing For Freedom 00:00 Tools
5 Please Hear Mr Flight Control 00:00 Tools
All Tomorrows Parties 00:00 Tools
Nimbus Stratus Sirus (Mr. Pian 00:00 Tools
Seas' Song for Sailor 00:00 Tools
[untitled] 00:00 Tools
Let It Snow 00:00 Tools
Song for Death of Parents 00:00 Tools
Julian & Grandpa 00:00 Tools
6 Smoke Is A Fireman's Friend 00:00 Tools
Please Hear Mr. Flight Control! 00:00 Tools
Zat You, Santa Claus? 00:00 Tools
Fanfare for Speeding Bullet 00:00 Tools
Cumulonimbus (Magnetic Tape Fo 00:00 Tools
Song Of The Nomad 1.054 00:00 Tools
The Music Tapes - In an Ice Palace 00:00 Tools
Ready Steady Go 00:00 Tools
Fanfare for the Speeding Bulle 00:00 Tools
Zat You Santa Claus? 00:00 Tools
1st Imaginary Symphony for Vac 00:00 Tools
Untitled Flamenco Guitar Piece 00:00 Tools
Pluto 00:00 Tools
'Zat you, Santa Claus? 00:00 Tools
Saw Pingpong and Orchestra 00:00 Tools
Jesus' Blood (The Music Tapes and the Elephant 6 Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 00:00 Tools
The Big Beautiful Shops 00:00 Tools
The Music Tapes 00:00 Tools
1st Imaginary Symphony For Nomad 00:00 Tools
1st Imaginary Symphony by Vacc 00:00 Tools
Frosty The Snowman 00:00 Tools
01 the dark is singing songs (sleepy time down south) 00:00 Tools
The First Kolyada 00:00 Tools
? 00:00 Tools
Feature For Speeding Bullet 00:00 Tools
Seas Song for Sailor 00:00 Tools
Orchestrations Overture 00:00 Tools
1st Imaginary Symphony By Vaccum Cleaner 00:00 Tools
And Orchistrations Overture 00:00 Tools
01. Saw Ping Pong Orchestra 00:00 Tools
02 - 1st Imaginary Symphony For Vaccume Cleaner 00:00 Tools
Something That Has Never Been Presented in Magnolia, New Jersey, Since the History of Mankind Began! 00:00 Tools
Silent Night 00:00 Tools
TIny Desk Concert 00:00 Tools
The Beautiful Shops (It's Said That It Could Be Anyone) 00:00 Tools
Saw And Colliope Organ On Wire 00:00 Tools
Jingle Bells 00:00 Tools
1st Imaginary Symphony for Vaccum Cleaner 00:00 Tools
Kolyada # 1 00:00 Tools
An Orchistrations Overture 00:00 Tools
Intermission, Part 2 00:00 Tools
02 saw and calliope organ on wire 00:00 Tools
The Second Kolyada 00:00 Tools
O Tannenbaum 00:00 Tools
Intermission, Part 1 00:00 Tools
03 - Song Of The Nomad Lost 00:00 Tools
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The Music Tapes started life as a creative outlet for the 16 year old Julian Koster (later of Neutral Milk Hotel), who would create tapes of songs and stories as means of escapism, which he would share with his friends, culminating in 'The American Phoam Rubber Co. Symphony Orchestra Proudly Presents the 2nd Silly Putty Symphony for Edison Wax Cylander', which was essentially tape collage. In 1989, Koster formed the band Chocolate USA, a more conventional indie-pop band, which also included Bill Doss and Eric Harris, later (along with Koster, though somewhat unofficially) members of the Olivia Tremor Control. The band released two full albums, All Jets Are Gonna Fall Today and Smoke Machine, before splitting in 1994, after which Koster chose to focus his creative efforts on the Music Tapes once more. In 1999 Julian released the album First Imaginary Symphony For Nomad, featuring a slew of musicians helping him, most notably Robbie Cucchiaro and Eric Harris. Ten years later Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes was released, featuring the usual bevy of artists, most notably an eight foot tall metronome. On september 4th, 2012, their last album, Mary's Voice, was released by Merge Records. In the lead-up to the album, Julian Koster held a Kickstarter campaign for a subsequent tour, with rewards including signed copies/master copies of the album, personalized messages and images, and Koster's banjo used on previous albums, most notably Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.