Philip Glass
Music In Twelve Parts - Parts 1 & 2 (LP)
FormatLPLabelCaroline True RecordsGenreExperimental
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condition (record/cover): NM / VG (writing on back, light sticker removal residue on front and minimal ring wear)
Textured sleeve.
Virgin Records's budget offshoot Caroline pressed Parts 1 and 2 in a textured-sleeve twelve-inch in 1976 (recording: 1974, Big Apple Recording Studios, New York). The full six-LP box of all twelve parts would not arrive until 1988; for those intervening twelve years, this LP was the only commercially available portion of the work outside live performance.
Thirty-two minutes of additive transformation across electric organs, soprano saxophones (Jon Gibson and Dickie Landry), wordless voice and amplified flute. Glass wrote what he meant as a single piece in twelve voices of counterpoint, played the result to a friend who asked what the other eleven parts would sound like, and decided to take the misunderstanding at its word.
Release notes
Label layout variant and different runout data. - Textured sleeve. Recorded at the Big Apple Recording Studio, New York City. [Cover] ℗ 1974 Virgin Records Ltd. © 1974 Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd. [Labels] © 1976 Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd ℗ 1974 Virgin Records Ltd Published by Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd Made in England
| A | Music In Twelve Parts - Part 1 | 20:30 | |
| B | Music In Twelve Parts - Part 2 | 15:16 |
- Richard Peck
- Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone
- Cooke Key Associates
- Artwork
- Philip Glass
- Composed By, Electric Organ, Mixed By [Remix], Producer, Sleeve Notes
- Sol Lewitt
- Cover, Design
- Michael Riesman
- Edited By [Tape Editor], Electric Organ, Mixed By [Remix]
- Kurt Munkacsi
- Engineer [Recording], Mixed By [Remix], Producer
- Wieslaw Woszczyk
- Engineer [Recording]
- Jon Gibson
- Soprano Saxophone, Flute
- Dickie Landry
- Soprano Saxophone, Flute
- Joan LaBarbara
- Voice, Electric Organ
