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.