Trackimage | Playbut | Trackname | Playbut | Trackname |
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7450136 | Play | Hacidem (nephew/uncle/saw/accordian) | 00:00 Tools | |
7450120 | Play | Majesty | 00:00 Tools | |
7450132 | Play | Saw Ping Pong And Orchestra | 00:00 Tools | |
7450122 | Play | Schedrevka | 00:00 Tools | |
7450123 | Play | Freeing Song for Reindeer | 00:00 Tools | |
7450126 | Play | Freeing Song By Reindeer | 00:00 Tools | |
7450112 | Play | The Dark Is Singing Songs (Sleepy Time Down South) | 00:00 Tools | |
7450128 | Play | Tornado Longing For Freedom | 00:00 Tools | |
7450127 | Play | The Minister of Longitude | 00:00 Tools | |
7450115 | Play | Playing ''Evening'' | 00:00 Tools | |
87085657 | Play | Song for Soon To Be Sailor | 00:00 Tools | |
7450130 | Play | Song for Oceans Falling | 00:00 Tools | |
7450155 | Play | Kolyada #1 | 00:00 Tools | |
7450154 | Play | Kolyada #2 | 00:00 Tools | |
7450113 | Play | S' Alive (Pt. 1) | 00:00 Tools | |
7450114 | Play | Saw and Calliope Organ on Wire | 00:00 Tools | |
7450135 | Play | Julian And Grandpa | 00:00 Tools | |
7450133 | Play | Manifest Destiny | 00:00 Tools | |
7450134 | Play | In an Ice Palace | 00:00 Tools | |
7450137 | Play | Song of the Nomad Lost | 00:00 Tools | |
7450139 | Play | Nimbus Stratus Cirrus | 00:00 Tools | |
7450138 | Play | An Orchistration's Overture | 00:00 Tools | |
7450140 | Play | Aliens | 00:00 Tools | |
7450144 | Play | "Pulled out to Sea..." | 00:00 Tools | |
7450145 | Play | March of the Father Fists | 00:00 Tools | |
7450116 | Play | The Big Beautiful Shops (It's Said That It Could Be Anyone) | 00:00 Tools | |
7450141 | Play | Nomad Tell Us | 00:00 Tools | |
7450119 | Play | Spare the Dark Streets | 00:00 Tools | |
7450147 | Play | The Television Tells Us | 00:00 Tools | |
7450161 | Play | What the Single Made the Needle Sing | 00:00 Tools | |
7450152 | Play | Song of 100 Castles | 00:00 Tools | |
7450118 | Play | To All Who Say Goodnight | 00:00 Tools | |
7450117 | Play | Kolyada #3 | 00:00 Tools | |
7450121 | Play | Takeshi and Elijah | 00:00 Tools | |
87085658 | Play | City of Lights | 00:00 Tools | |
7450156 | Play | Sea's Song for Sailor | 00:00 Tools | |
7450151 | Play | Song for the Death of Parents | 00:00 Tools | |
7450160 | Play | The Clapping Hands | 00:00 Tools | |
7450167 | Play | 1st Imaginary Symphony By Vaccume Cleaner | 00:00 Tools | |
7450148 | Play | Cumulonimbus | 00:00 Tools | |
7450125 | Play | S' Alive to Be Known (May We Starve) | 00:00 Tools | |
7450158 | Play | Wishing Well at Caper's End | 00:00 Tools | |
7450166 | Play | Fanfare for the Speeding Bullet | 00:00 Tools | |
7450157 | Play | A Warning! | 00:00 Tools | |
7450124 | Play | Go Home Again | 00:00 Tools | |
7450142 | Play | So the Day Long | 00:00 Tools | |
7450163 | Play | Cumulonimbus (Magnetic Tape for Clouds) | 00:00 Tools | |
7450150 | Play | A Lightning's Cheeks (Everything Gets Born Here) | 00:00 Tools | |
7450153 | Play | 1st Imaginary Symphony for Vaccume Cleaner | 00:00 Tools | |
7450164 | Play | Nimbus Stratus Cirrus (Mr.Piano’s Majestic Haircut) | 00:00 Tools | |
7450162 | Play | Nantasket | 00:00 Tools | |
7450169 | Play | Nimbus Stratus Cirrus (Mr. Piano's Majestic Haircut) | 00:00 Tools | |
7450165 | Play | 3 | 00:00 Tools | |
7450159 | Play | Night and Day | 00:00 Tools | |
87085659 | Play | J'Attendrai | 00:00 Tools | |
87085660 | Play | Where Evening's Dream Goes | 00:00 Tools | |
7450190 | Play | I've Got My Love | 00:00 Tools | |
50317370 | Play | try2 | 00:00 Tools | |
7450181 | Play | All Tomorrow's Parties | 00:00 Tools | |
7450191 | Play | The 2nd Imaginary Symphony For Cloudmaking | 00:00 Tools | |
7450171 | Play | For the Planet Pluto | 00:00 Tools | |
7450172 | Play | Hacidem (feat. Evan Harlan) | 00:00 Tools | |
7450239 | Play | An Orchetration's Overture | 00:00 Tools | |
7450220 | Play | Smoke Is a Fireman's Friend | 00:00 Tools | |
7450325 | Play | Please Hear Mr. Flight Control | 00:00 Tools | |
7450287 | Play | Freeing Song By Reigndeer | 00:00 Tools | |
7450236 | Play | Second Imaginary Symphony for Cloud Making | 00:00 Tools | |
7450206 | Play | Why is the President Crying? | 00:00 Tools | |
7450173 | Play | Hacidem | 00:00 Tools | |
7450196 | Play | Please Hear Me Mr. Flight Control! | 00:00 Tools | |
50317371 | Play | Songs for Oceans Falling | 00:00 Tools | |
7450182 | Play | Untitled | 00:00 Tools | |
7450195 | Play | Nigh | 00:00 Tools | |
7450210 | Play | The Dark is Singing Songs | 00:00 Tools | |
7450183 | Play | Intermission (Pt. 1) | 00:00 Tools | |
7450216 | Play | Mr. Ackerman I | 00:00 Tools | |
50317372 | Play | Nimbus Stratus Cirrus (Mr.Piano‚s Majestic Haircut) | 00:00 Tools | |
50317373 | Play | The Music Tapes - Majesty | 00:00 Tools | |
7450184 | Play | Intermission (Pt. 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
7450197 | Play | Mr. Ackerman II | 00:00 Tools | |
7450224 | Play | Story of the Factory | 00:00 Tools | |
7450193 | Play | Purim's Shadows - 3 | 00:00 Tools | |
7450223 | Play | Nimbus Stratus Cirrus (Mr. Piano’s Majestic Haircut) | 00:00 Tools | |
50317374 | Play | Night and Day: A Song to The Nightime and The Daytime | 00:00 Tools | |
7450202 | Play | Secret | 00:00 Tools | |
7450209 | Play | Briefcase | 00:00 Tools | |
7450234 | Play | Koldaya #1 | 00:00 Tools | |
7450218 | Play | Raincoat II | 00:00 Tools | |
7450208 | Play | Raincoat I | 00:00 Tools | |
7450215 | Play | Factory II | 00:00 Tools | |
7450211 | Play | S' Alive, Part 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
7450204 | Play | Outro Music | 00:00 Tools | |
7450207 | Play | Morning | 00:00 Tools | |
7450219 | Play | Factory I | 00:00 Tools | |
7450217 | Play | City | 00:00 Tools | |
7450231 | Play | (Julian's Dad Playes Gutiar) | 00:00 Tools | |
50317375 | Play | 'Pulled Out to Sea...' | 00:00 Tools | |
7450286 | Play | 4 (Jeff, Jill, and Julian Serenade Rudy on the Beach at Nantasket) | 00:00 Tools | |
50317376 | Play | clapping hands | 00:00 Tools | |
50317377 | Play | Playing 'Evening' | 00:00 Tools | |
50317378 | Play | 05 - Nimbus Stratus Cirrus | 00:00 Tools | |
50317379 | Play | What the Single Made the Needl | 00:00 Tools | |
7450235 | Play | The First Noel | 00:00 Tools | |
50317394 | Play | 1st Imaginary Symphony For Vacuum Cleaner | 00:00 Tools | |
7450270 | Play | Enlightenment (live) | 00:00 Tools | |
50317380 | Play | 1st Imaginary Symphony For | 00:00 Tools | |
50317381 | Play | The Music Tapes - Saw Ping Pong and Orchestra | 00:00 Tools | |
50317388 | Play | A Warning | 00:00 Tools | |
50317382 | Play | 09 - Kolyada No 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
50317383 | Play | The Music Tapes - Schedrevka | 00:00 Tools | |
50317384 | Play | The Music Tapes - Song for Oceans Falling | 00:00 Tools | |
7450203 | Play | When It's Sleepy Time Down South | 00:00 Tools | |
7450228 | Play | An Orchestrations Ouverture | 00:00 Tools | |
50317385 | Play | The Music Tapes - Freeing Song by Reindeer | 00:00 Tools | |
50317386 | Play | The Music Tapes - Tornado Longing for Freedom | 00:00 Tools | |
7450200 | Play | (intro) | 00:00 Tools | |
50317387 | Play | 2 Song Of The Nomad Lost | 00:00 Tools | |
50317389 | Play | The Music Tapes - Nimbus Stratus Cirrus | 00:00 Tools | |
50317390 | Play | The Music Tapes - Kolyada No 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
50317391 | Play | The Music Tapes - Kolyada No 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
7450258 | Play | "Secret to Snowing" | 00:00 Tools | |
87085662 | Play | Intermission, Pt. 2 (Silent Track - No Audio) | 00:00 Tools | |
50317392 | Play | (story 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
7450199 | Play | (story 1) | 00:00 Tools | |
50317393 | Play | 13 - Cumulonimbus | 00:00 Tools | |
50317395 | Play | 'Pulled Out to Sea' | 00:00 Tools | |
50317396 | Play | The Music Tapes - Freeing Song for Reindeer | 00:00 Tools | |
50317397 | Play | 12 - Kolyada No 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
7450246 | Play | Please Hear Mr Flight Control | 00:00 Tools | |
7450227 | Play | Minister of Longitude (live at Awkwardcore Studios) | 00:00 Tools | |
50317398 | Play | Takeshi & Elijah | 00:00 Tools | |
50317399 | Play | 2nd Imaginary Symphony for Cloud Making | 00:00 Tools | |
50317400 | Play | Television Tells Us | 00:00 Tools | |
87085661 | Play | Wishing Well at Capers End | 00:00 Tools | |
50317402 | Play | The Music Tapes - Manifest Destiny | 00:00 Tools | |
87085664 | Play | Intermission, Pt. 1 (Silent Track - No Audio) | 00:00 Tools | |
7450205 | Play | (The Seven-Foot-Tall Metronome) | 00:00 Tools | |
50317403 | Play | 3 Aliens | 00:00 Tools | |
50317404 | Play | The Music Tapes - The Minister of Longitude | 00:00 Tools | |
50317409 | Play | The Music Tapes - Cumulonimbus | 00:00 Tools | |
50317405 | Play | Secret to Snowing | 00:00 Tools | |
50317406 | Play | 1 The Television Tells Us | 00:00 Tools | |
7450241 | Play | Too All Who Say Goodnight | 00:00 Tools | |
50317415 | Play | 2nd Imaginary Symphony | 00:00 Tools | |
50317417 | Play | Jesus Blood | 00:00 Tools | |
7450279 | Play | Song For Ocean's Falling | 00:00 Tools | |
50317407 | Play | Enlightenment | 00:00 Tools | |
50317408 | Play | The Music Tapes - Julian and Grandpa | 00:00 Tools | |
7450260 | Play | 4 Tornado Longing For Freedom | 00:00 Tools | |
50317410 | Play | 5 Please Hear Mr Flight Control | 00:00 Tools | |
50317414 | Play | All Tomorrows Parties | 00:00 Tools | |
50317411 | Play | Nimbus Stratus Sirus (Mr. Pian | 00:00 Tools | |
50317412 | Play | Seas' Song for Sailor | 00:00 Tools | |
7450243 | Play | [untitled] | 00:00 Tools | |
50317413 | Play | Let It Snow | 00:00 Tools | |
50317421 | Play | Song for Death of Parents | 00:00 Tools | |
50317422 | Play | Julian & Grandpa | 00:00 Tools | |
50317416 | Play | 6 Smoke Is A Fireman's Friend | 00:00 Tools | |
7450267 | Play | Please Hear Mr. Flight Control! | 00:00 Tools | |
50317438 | Play | Zat You, Santa Claus? | 00:00 Tools | |
89149001 | Play | Fanfare for Speeding Bullet | 00:00 Tools | |
50317418 | Play | Cumulonimbus (Magnetic Tape Fo | 00:00 Tools | |
50317419 | Play | Song Of The Nomad 1.054 | 00:00 Tools | |
50317420 | Play | The Music Tapes - In an Ice Palace | 00:00 Tools | |
7450297 | Play | Ready Steady Go | 00:00 Tools | |
50317423 | Play | Fanfare for the Speeding Bulle | 00:00 Tools | |
50317424 | Play | Zat You Santa Claus? | 00:00 Tools | |
50317425 | Play | 1st Imaginary Symphony for Vac | 00:00 Tools | |
7450230 | Play | Untitled Flamenco Guitar Piece | 00:00 Tools | |
7450288 | Play | Pluto | 00:00 Tools | |
87085663 | Play | 'Zat you, Santa Claus? | 00:00 Tools | |
89149002 | Play | Saw Pingpong and Orchestra | 00:00 Tools | |
7450221 | Play | Jesus' Blood (The Music Tapes and the Elephant 6 Orchestra) | 00:00 Tools | |
7450278 | Play | Hark! The Herald Angels Sing | 00:00 Tools | |
50317426 | Play | The Big Beautiful Shops | 00:00 Tools | |
50317427 | Play | The Music Tapes | 00:00 Tools | |
50317428 | Play | 1st Imaginary Symphony For Nomad | 00:00 Tools | |
50317429 | Play | 1st Imaginary Symphony by Vacc | 00:00 Tools | |
7450275 | Play | Frosty The Snowman | 00:00 Tools | |
50317430 | Play | 01 the dark is singing songs (sleepy time down south) | 00:00 Tools | |
50317431 | Play | The First Kolyada | 00:00 Tools | |
7450266 | Play | ? | 00:00 Tools | |
50317432 | Play | Feature For Speeding Bullet | 00:00 Tools | |
89149003 | Play | Seas Song for Sailor | 00:00 Tools | |
7450295 | Play | Orchestrations Overture | 00:00 Tools | |
50317433 | Play | 1st Imaginary Symphony By Vaccum Cleaner | 00:00 Tools | |
50317434 | Play | And Orchistrations Overture | 00:00 Tools | |
50317435 | Play | 01. Saw Ping Pong Orchestra | 00:00 Tools | |
50317436 | Play | 02 - 1st Imaginary Symphony For Vaccume Cleaner | 00:00 Tools | |
50317437 | Play | Something That Has Never Been Presented in Magnolia, New Jersey, Since the History of Mankind Began! | 00:00 Tools | |
7450318 | Play | Silent Night | 00:00 Tools | |
87085665 | Play | TIny Desk Concert | 00:00 Tools | |
87085666 | Play | The Beautiful Shops (It's Said That It Could Be Anyone) | 00:00 Tools | |
87085667 | Play | Saw And Colliope Organ On Wire | 00:00 Tools | |
7450253 | Play | Jingle Bells | 00:00 Tools | |
50317439 | Play | 1st Imaginary Symphony for Vaccum Cleaner | 00:00 Tools | |
7450247 | Play | Kolyada # 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
89149004 | Play | An Orchistrations Overture | 00:00 Tools | |
87085668 | Play | Intermission, Part 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
50317443 | Play | 02 saw and calliope organ on wire | 00:00 Tools | |
50317441 | Play | The Second Kolyada | 00:00 Tools | |
50317442 | Play | O Tannenbaum | 00:00 Tools | |
87085669 | Play | Intermission, Part 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
50317445 | Play | 03 - Song Of The Nomad Lost | 00:00 Tools |
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.