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I think I'm going through another John Adams phase.
I don't really have a lot to say about them that I haven't already said elsewhere but you'll notice that most of them fall under "newly-discovered songs by bands I've been listening to," "jazz" or "Boston bands, most of which I heard live"
Einojuhani Rautavaara - Vigilia
The Northeastern Railroads - Sketch no. 19
Red Right Hand - Get Back
This Bliss - Hurt Me
Strangers By Accident - Borderline
Kina Zoré - Awu Duhalanga
Jenny Olivia Johnson - Asleep All Day
Schooltree - The Big Slide
Noelle Micarelli - Weatherman
Julia Mark - See You On The Moon
Bulldog - Dormant (This Time of Year)
The House of Love - Ray
Samuel Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Gerald Finzi - Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra
Dorothy Ashby - Pawky
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol - Niyaz Suite
Tori Amos - Father Lucifer
Airiel - Inside Out
Molly Pinto Madigan - Sing To Me
Dorothy Ashby - Pawky
Nila - Last Night In Los Feliz
Zoltán Kodály - Benedictus
Zoltán Kodály - A jó lovas katonának
Zoltán Kodály - Most jóttem Erdélyból
Henry Cowell - Hymn and Fuguing Tune no. 5
Francis Poulenc - Stabat Mater
Akiko Shikata - Leyre
Pharoah Sanders - The Creator Has A Master Plan
10,000 Maniacs - A Campfire Song
Claude Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande
Bent Knee - Dead Horse
Dinosaur Jr. - Flying Cloud
Laura Cortese and the Dance Seeds - California Calling
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Linden Lea - Natalie Merchant did a lovely rendition of this.
John Adams - The Chairman Dances
John Adams - The People Are The Heroes Now
John Adams - China Gates
Joanna Newsom - Only Skin
Savasha - Somewhere
New Dakotas - Warming Song
Dizzy Gillespie - The Eternal Triangle

I read an interview with Kylee Swanson of Loquat and she was super-optimistic about San Francisco's music scene back in 2003 because back before the dot com crash, housing and space to rehearse and record were unaffordable and there was a lack of jobs and housing and clubs to play at.
I don't actually know what happened to them after We Could Be Arsonists. I can kind of guess what happened to them.
Same with Sappington. Libra and Tin Friction could be the same thing or they could not be. They were working on an EP scheduled to be released early in 2003 or late in 2002 but I guess it kind of fizzled out. They had a page on mp3.com but it vanished into the aether. Also, Dreams By Degrees' Orange spent about 4 years in development hell and the preliminary lineups are radically different. And there isn't any preliminary lineup of White. And Odessa Chen was supposed to have something on Blue. Park Avenue Music is listed as one of the season artists but I'm not sure how that works. There aren't five seasons. This was 2003, before Tom Scocca came up with his eight season model.

(ninja edit: um, apparently one of the members of Park Avenue Music remixed one of the Sappington songs)

burning question: I think that the drift towards authoritarianism and populism is hurting music scenes in Southeast Asia and South Asia and Eastern Asia and perhaps Eastern Europe as well. Is this a thing that's happening or is it just harder to find new Asian music to listen to nowadays, with last.fm an unusable mess and Best Music From Worst Korea and SEAIndie defunct? Maybe it’s both.
Malaysia had a good music scene around the turn of the decade and they've always had a terrible political system that came off to me as a sort of attempt at a benign Jim Crow. Japan wants to be a walled garden. You could tell me that China's always been totalitarian or at least strongly authoritarian but it's somehow gotten worse under Xí Jìnpíng.