Ilhan Mimaroglu - Agitation


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Label: Locust Music
Catalog#: LOCUST 59
Format: CD
Country:US
Released:2004
Genre: Electronic
Style: Musique Concrète
Credits: Artwork By [Cover Collage] - Dawson Prater
Featuring [With The Participation Of The Pop Group] - Topsy Turvy Moon (tracks: 1, 2)
Libretto By [Text] - Ilhan Mimaroglu (tracks: 1, 2)
Reissue Producer - Dawson Prater
Remastered By - Ernst Karel
Vocals [Singing And Speaking] - Tuly Sand (tracks: 1, 2)
Voice [Auxiliary Speaking Voices Of] - Erdem Buri (tracks: 1, 2) , Ilhan Mimaroglu (tracks: 1, 2)
Notes:Originally issued as Folkways FTQ 33951 & FTS 33441.
© Folkways Records & Service Corp.
Under license from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Used by permission.
This edition © & ℗ 2004 Locust Music, a division of Locust Media.

Tract composed and realized in the studios of American Center for Students and Artists (Paris, France) and Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (New-York, N.Y., 1972-74). Text based on direct and paraphrased quotations from Alexander Bakunin, Bertolt Brecht, Jean-Baptiste Clément, Mahir Cayan, Nâzim Hikmet, Piotr Kropotkin, Mao Tse-Toung, Karl Marx & Eugène Pottier. The voice of Nâzim Hikmet and fragment from Groupe 17's recording of l'Internationale, courtesy of Le Chant du Monde, Paris, France.

To Kill a Sunrise composed in Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (New-York, N.Y., 1974).

La Ruche composed at Groupe de Recherches Musicales (Paris, France, 1968). An ORTF-GRM commission.

Original liner notes reprinted courtesy of Ilhan Mimaroglu.

Special thanks to Erdem Helvacioglu, Margot Nassa and D.A. Sonneborn at Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and Cathy Carapella at Diamond Time.
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Tracklisting:

1   Tract: A Composition Of Agitprop Music For Electromagnetic Tape (18:50)
2   Tract: A Composition Of Agitprop Music For Electromagnetic Tape Part II (16:54)
3   To Kill A Sunrise: A Requiem For Those Who Shot In The Back (19:39)
    Libretto By [Ensemble Speakers] - Ilhan Mimaroglu
  Libretto By [Singer] - Che Guevara
  Libretto By [Solo Speakers] - Marco Antonio Flores
  Vocals [Singer] - Mary Ann Hoxworth
  Voice [Ensemble Speakers] - Ann McMillan , Basil Pao , Chris Washington , Clarence Bullard , Gugor Bozkurt , Ken Anderson (2) , Laura Franco , Manfred Bormann
  Voice [Solo Speakers] - Chris Washington , Geoffrey Gursoy
4   La Ruche: An Elegy For Electromagnetic Tape (22:20)
    Cello - Jacques Wiederkehr
  Directed By [Musical Direction] - Jean-Paul Holstein
  Harpsichord - Michel Merlet
  Piano - Martine Josie
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