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Gibbous: Mid-Century Sound For Lounging Around
Despite the title and slogan of my new album, it's really just another in a long line of avant-garde art albums I've made over the years. The only thing truly Mid-Century about this recording is the lamp on the album cover. So, yes, it's more ambient industrial-strength electronica. I hope you'll give it a try ( Read more... ) -
Top 40 Game Cartridges For the Atari 2600
I just wanted to take a quick moment to share this list of the bestselling game titles for the Atari 2600. Back in the day (late 70s, early 80s), the Atari 2600 was thee gaming platform of course. And the bestselling game was Pac-Man ( Read more... ) -
Polychromatic - A New Year's Eve Album
On New Year's Eve of 2021, I decided to put out my 21st solo album. It's called Polychromatic -- or more appropriately the full title is Polychromatic: Oblique-II, because I conceived it as an unauthorized sequel to Tyshawn Sorey's 2011 jazz ensemble album Oblique-I.
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Death Rays, Drone Days and Nights in the Abyss
KEN GAGE TALKS ABOUT THE MUSIC AND ART OF DEATH RAYS
"I have a preference for simpler names, but the long title here makes sense because it is really the the culmination of the recording's three main tracks. I imagine it will be shortened from Death Rays, Drone Days and Nights in the Abyss to Death Rays when people mention it. If people even ( Read more... ) -
Monsters & Tower of Dronos -- New Ken Gage Albums Out Now!
Happy Halloween, Weird Music Fans!!!
For October, I released two full-length albums of Halloween-like music! Monsters is an album that, very much like my 2018 project Giant Sized Dracula (that I recorded with George Phillips), could be described as a Halloween sound effects album -- the kind I loved as a kid. My favorite of course was the 1979 ( Read more... ) -
Merlin's Donut Debuts
Merlin's Donut finally released yesterday, so I thought I'd yap a bit about it. But not too much ( Read more... ) -
Abstraction - The 16th Full-Length Solo Album by Ken Gage and It's Free!
Hi Fans of Weird Electronic Music!
While finishing up some music projects of mine (namely Merlin's Donut and Polychromatic: Oblique II) and ignoring my many book writing obligations, I scraped together enough new and old music tracks to sneak out a completely new album for August 2021. Here it is. Abstraction. Creative Commons License ( Read more... ) -
Ambient 5: Music For Spaceports
Gorgar zanthos el dronkorith flisk. Entari zanbok trin dellum, tronova gammal trok.
"And in the dream, the aliens -- the Entari -- had taken my friend Brian Eno to their hidden lair on Nonth, the Ninth Planet, where they merged his DNA with mine to create a hybrid music-beast called Draxulphon. Draxulphon was then secreted to Earth, the Third ( Read more... )
