Lesson No. 1 - BONUS TRACKS
Released: Apr 27, 2004
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Released: Apr 27, 2004
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Lesson No. 1 was Glenn Branca's first release as a composer. Originally issued as a 12" EP, or mini-album, it featured two tracks, the beautiful and accessible title track -- composed as a response...
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Symphony No. 5 (Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere) - NEWTONE
Released: Oct 1, 1999
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Released: Oct 1, 1999
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Selections from the Symphonies (Works for Electric Guitar)
Released: Oct 1, 1996
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Released: Oct 1, 1996
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This compilation album offers excerpts from Glenn Branca's second, third, fifth, sixth, eighth, and tenth symphonies. The tracks have been selected among Branca's loudest and noisiest works,...
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Symphony No. 5 (Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere) - ATAVISTIC
Released: Jun 18, 1996
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Released: Jun 18, 1996
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Recordings of Branca's music cannot fail but do it an injustice. The purely visceral punch of his sound and the extreme effects that the overtones generate deep within one's ear (which can sound...
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Les Honneurs du Pied
Released: 1994
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Released: 1994
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Commissioned by Poc in Lichen, Paris in 1991, the first part of this composition for orchestra develops relatively quick single telegraphic, chanting lines that seem to evolve into eternity...
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Songs '77-'79
Released: 1997
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Released: 1997
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This is a collection of eight pieces from the three years before Branca's monumental album, The Ascension, wherein the listener can hear him laying the groundwork for his later concentration on...
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Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses
Released: 1996
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Released: 1996
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A most welcome issue of the live performance of this important and stirring work from 1982. In conception, its title incorporates a tribute to and commentary on some of the fundamental concepts of...
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Symphony Nos. 8 & 10 (The Mysteries)
Released: 1994
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Released: 1994
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Subtitled "The Mystery" and "The Mystery Pt. 2," these two symphonies concern themselves with the two big questions: Life and Death. They are both scored for eight guitars, two basses, keyboard,...
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The World Upside Down
Released: 1992
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Released: 1992
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A "ballet for orchestra in seven movements" performed by the New York Chamber Sinfonia, conducted by Glen Cortese. The first movement, entitled "The Temple of Venus, Pt. 1," gradually unfolds...
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