Michael Ranta – The Great Wall/Chanta Khat [CD] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic the guitar follows or precedes

the guitar follows or precedes him

works on the same street my parents live

fragments of melody and rhythm thread their way across the album’s length only to be broken and undermined by interventions into the tape onto which they were laid

although he had some recognition in the USA

Sufi atmospheres supported by sequence of organs that reinterpret the frequencies of harmoniums lost

Michael Ranta – The Great Wall/Chanta Khat [CD] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic the guitar follows or precedes"Michael Ranta has collaborated with Takehisa Kosugi, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Jean Claude Eloy, Conny Plank, Mike Lewis, and Hartmut Geerken, just to name a few. He was also assistant to Harry Partch and performer in the Gate 5 Ensemble in the 1960s. Additionally, Ranta performed in Stockhausen's ensemble during the 1970 World Expo in Osaka. Ranta's resume also includes recordings by Helmut Lachenmann, Herbert Brn, Toru Takemitsu, Josef Anton Riedl,