Various - Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments

Label: Ellipsis Arts
Catalog#: CD3530
Format: CD
Country:US
Released:1996
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental
Credits: Artwork By - Joanna Jaeger
Compilation Producer - Bart Hopkin
Executive Producer - Jeffrey Charno
Notes:Box set (ISBN 1-5596138-2-3) of a 91 pages paperback book with texts by Bart Hopkin, foreword by Tom Waits and a CD featuring selections previously released in the Experimental Musical Instruments journal - edited by Hopkin - between 1985-96.

Orbitones, Spoon Harps & Bellowphones (Ellipsis Arts, CD3610, 1998) also written & produced by Bart Hopkin can be considered as its follow-up.
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Tracklisting:

1 Hans Reichel Le Bal (4:29)
    Producer - Cicero M. Hengstenberg
  Written-By - Hans Reichel
2 Philip Dadson & From Scratch Pacific 3-2-1 Zero (4:00)
    Producer, Written-By - Philip Dadson
  Written-By - Don McGlashan , Wayne Laird
3 Q. R. Ghazala Silence The Tongues Of Prophecy (4:50)
4 Jean-Claude Chapuis Luminescence (2:56)
5 David Rosenboom In The Beginning: Etude II (5:13)
    Arranged By - Don Buchla*
  Synthesizer [Moog] - Don Buchla* , Robert Moog
6 Ward Hartenstein Claycussion (3:44)
    Written-By - John Beck
7 Harry Partch And On The Seventh Day, Petals Fell In Petaluma (4:11)
8 Sugar Belly Shake Up Adina (3:39)
9 Darrel De Vore Bamboo Is (3:23)
10 Camille Saint-Saëns The Swan (2:56)
    Featuring [Theremin] - Clara Rockmore
  Piano - Nadia Reisenberg
  Producer - Shirleigh Moog
11 Barry Hall & Burnt Earth Ensemble, The Terra Zona (3:19)
    Co-producer - Richard Smith (2)
  Producer - Barry Hall
12 Jacques Dudon Naïades (4:08)
13 Ken Butler & Stan Wood & John Wood Instru-Matics (6:32)
14 Thomas Nunn Entomological Effervescence (5:05)
    Co-producer - Douglas Carrol
  Producer - Thomas Nunn
15 Sarah Hopkins Kindred Spirits (4:36)
    Co-producer - Lewis De Soto
  Producer - Sarah Hopkins
16 Robert Grawi Piccadilly (2:14)
    Written-By - Robert Grawi
17 Susan Rawcliffe Aquaknots (5:21)
18 Wendy Mae Chambers* New York, New York (1:23)
    Written-By - Fred Ebb , John Kander
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