Ilhan Mimaroglu
Ilhan Mimaroglu emerged out of the Columbia - Princeton Electronic Music Center and public radio programs at New York's WBAI where his socially and politically charged radio programs took the city by surprise. .He is best known for his work with Edgard Varese, mentor Vladimir Ussachevsky, a spellbinding collaboration with jazz musician Freddy Hubbard and as a chief composer of Fellini's Satyricon as well as electronic albums released on his own Finnadar label.
Ilhan Mimaroglu emerged out of the Columbia - Princeton Electronic Music Center and public radio programs at New York's WBAI where his socially and politically charged radio programs took the city by surprise. .He is best known for his work with Edgard Varese, mentor Vladimir Ussachevsky, a spellbinding collaboration with jazz musician Freddy Hubbard and as a chief composer of Fellini's Satyricon as well as electronic albums released on his own Finnadar label.
Face The Windmills, Turn Left (LP)
Great electronic/tape pieces realized in 1976 at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center and released on the composer's own Finnadar label.
Electronic Music (LP)
1967 re-press (Allentown) of the second album on Turnabout's landmark "Electronic Music" series presenting three classic and essential early experimental electronic compositions originally released in 1966.
Electronic Music III (LP)
Original US pressing of the third album on Turnabout's landmark "Electronic Music" series presenting four classic and essential early experimental electronic compositions, released in 1967.
Ilhan Mimaroglu, Doris Hays, Pauline Oliveros, Annea Lockwood, Alison Knowles, Daniel Goode, Tom Johnson, Ann Silsbee
Sleepers (LP)Intriguing 1985 sleep-themed compilation on Ilhan Mimaroglu's Finnadar label, compiled by Doris Hays with avant-garde soundscapes and sleep-inducing compositions.
Tract: A Composition of Agitprop Music for Electromagnetic Tape
"A Composition of Agitprop Music for Electromagnetic Tape" by İlhan Mimaroğlu is a collage of political sound art blending revolutionary texts, manipulated electronics, and the vocal performance of Tülay German. Recorded from 1972–74, it transforms agitprop tradition into a radical meditation on freedom and dissent.
Sing Me A Song Of Songmy, A Fantasy For Electromagnetic Tape
Big tip! Sing Me a Song of Songmy is an album-length composition by avant-garde Turkish composer İlhan Mimaroğlu, released in 1971. Principal performers include jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and Mimaroğlu himself. The piece includes a chorus, strings, recitations of poems by Fazil Husnu Daglarca and other texts, organists and tape-based musique concrète, as well as Hubbard's jazz quintet. It is considered as one of Hubbard's most experimental albums.
To Kill a Sunrise and La Ruche
**2020 stock** Turkish-born musician and composer Ilhan Mimaroglu worked extensively with electronic (tape) music. The two programmatic pieces paired here are "To Kill a Sunrise," a dirge subtitled "Requiem for Those Shot in the Back" with words borrowed from a poem by Guatemalan guerilla poet Marco Antonio Flores, composed in Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (New-York, N.Y., 1974). And "La Ruche" composed at Groupe de Recherches Musicales (Paris, France, 1968) an experiment of reminis…
Parmak Çocuk, Çizmeli Kedi
While there’s no explicit date listed anywhere within, I’m guessing the pair of 45rpm 7”s in question - released only in Turkey - date to the mid-60s, with each featuring Solmaz Sporel reading a different fairly tale over a completely amazing Musique Concrète tape-backing by Ilhan Mimaroglu, produced at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York. Personally, these particular outings are some of the most gratifyingly zonked things I’ve ever heard, having much to do with the langua…
Coucou Bazar
All the music for Jean Dubuffet's "animated painting" spectacle Coucou Bazar. Disc one is Ilhan Mimaroglu's 1973 electronic score for the Guggenheim staging (originally on Finnadar); disc two is Dubuffet's own 1978 Turin soundtrack, long buried in a rare catalogue. Digipak with 40-page booklet. 2CD.
Agitation
two albums of 'agitprop' electronic music -- Tract & To Kill A Sunrise cut between 1968 and 1975 -- by mysterious & controversial Turkish composer Ilhan Mimaroglu -- one of the truly underrepresented pioneers of the golden age of the Princeton-Columbia electronic music scene. Produced as a direct reaction to an extended period of intense repression, counterrevolutionary terror, & execution style murder in Turkey, Tract is a scrambled mash up peppered with spunky electronic bursts, radio ads loop…