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Winners' Music: Daniel Patrick Quinn's Favourite Albums
Luke Turner , May 21st, 2015 09:11

Island-dwelling outsider musician and One More Grain brain Daniel Patrick Quinn tells us about his 13 favourite albums from Suede to Fela Kuti, Nico to Robert Wyatt and Gamelan to ELO, plus the sound of a snipe drumming, and wonders whether he'd have sexual feelings for Jeff Lynne were he a woman.

Steve Reich – Music for a Large Ensemble / Octet
Great music for a train journey, this one. Or for looking at cells through a microscope. It has a particularly optimistic mood to it. Indeed, I listened to this album a lot after a close relative died as it was one of just a handful of things that could neutralise the pain. It changes the light of a room, always for the better.