Freddie Hubbard, İlhan Mİmaroğlu* – Sing Me A Song Of Songmy (A Fantasy For Electromagnetic Tape)

classic record. spinning this is feels summoning demons. with songs like "the crowd" & "Threnody for Sharon Tate". oh yeah, there's some jazz, that's not over all the place for free-jazz. one of my favorites because it all blends together well.

One of my favorites. It's very experimental, like a collage and miles away from conventional songwriting. It's a surprisingly good listen nonetheless. A real masterpiece!

Imagine Freddie walks into Revolution No. 9 and 200 Motels having some raunchy sex. Yeah, that's what it's like.

In the competing schools of electroacoustic composition, Mİmaroğlu stood out as a non-joiner. Having left his native Turkey for the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, Mİmaroğlu was an outlier even in that camp of international exiles led by Ussachevsky and Luening. Inspired by communist idealism and sympathy for popular resistance, Mİmaroğlu released a series of experimental albums, part agit-prop and part collage. Like experimental musical theatre, Sing Me a Song from 1971 combines texts from Turkish poet Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Vietnamese poet Nhā-Khê, and Che Guevara. But the primary sonic voice is that of post-bop trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. Sing Me A Song reflects on the turmoil of the conjuncture, referencing the Kent State massacre, the horrors of the Vietnam War, and the murder of Sharon Tate. Not an easy listen. The bursts of AM radio distortion and building crescendos of reverberation in conversation with Hubbard’s laments on the trumpet still retains urgency.

This album is incredible

This is an unsung masterpiece of the avant-garde!

Profound,enthusiastic,inspired
piece of work

truly beautiful lp !!!