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Mahler, anyone who has ears should listen! -- JOHN MAUS

String Quartet No.3: Ruth Crawford Seeger, American weird, accept no substitutes. -- JOHN MAUS

A drinking song, Minnesang style. Wolkenstein wrote a lot of dirty songs, but I think this one is the best. -- JOHN MAUS

A Simon Park track I incidentally heard a passage from years ago and then later discovered in its entirety (on 'High Climber' from 1982) whilst digging through some of the De Wolfe Music library records. -- JOHN MAUS

A Debt of Blood Must Be Paid In Blood: more music from the Cultural Revolution, this piece is from The Red Lantern, one of the eight model revolutionary operas. Careful attention to the encounter here between the traditional Chinese "pentatonic" modes and Western triadic harmony (as with The Heroic Little Sisters) will only enrich one's musical imagination. -- JOHN MAUS

No More Innocent Hearts: an obscure yet choice "AOR" track, such a great chorus. -- JOHN MAUS

The Heroic Little Sisters of the Grasslands: this Chinese tune was especially popular during the Cultural Revolution . This particular performance/arrangement of the tune is surprisingly applicatory. -- JOHN MAUS

My favorite reality show, 'Climbing For Dollars'. -- JOHN MAUS

John Maus is running the site all day, sharing some obscure and bizarre selections, starting with a Renaissance-era pontifical canon that inspired one of the tracks on his new album. Screen Memories is out now. Catch Maus on his current massive world tour.