Branca: Symphony 1
Editorial Reviews
Music Week, UK, December 17, 1983
"Branca and 16 guest musicians beat the hell out of Symphony No. 1 in a highly industrial manner."
Steve Albini, Matter, February 1984
"He makes explosive challenging music, strong stuff. He's playing with fire and he knows it."
Album Description
For Fans Of: Sonic Youth, Swans, Helmet, Rhys Chatham, Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, LaMonte Young, Noise Bands, Guitar Driven Heavy Metal. Recorded July 18 & 19, 1981 at The Performing Garage, NYC. Produced by Lee Ranaldo.Digitally Remastered By Glenn Branca and Wharton Tiers June 1998!Performers: Glenn Branca (Soprano and steel-wire guitars) with:
Craig Bromberg:
Tenor, soprano, bowed; Richard Edson :Trumpet and octave guitar; Dave Buk: Trumpet, baritone horn; Ned Sublette:Soprano, tenor and steel-wire guitars; Ann DeMarinis:
Keyboard, percussion: Barbara Ess: Baritone and bass guitars, percussion; Robert Harrison: Soprano, tenor and bowed guitars; Thurston Moore: Tenor, soprano and bowed guitars; Lee Ranaldo: Soprano and steel-wire guitars; Wharton Tiers:Keyboard, soprano and steel-wire guitars /percussion; Gail Varchon:
Keyboard; Fritz Van Orden: Tenor saxophone; Stephan Wischerth: Drums, percussion; Margot Zvaleko: French horn; David Rosenblum: Baritone and Steel-wire guitars
What the press had to say about Glenn Branca and "Symphony No. 1" released as a ROIR cassette in 1983:
"Symphony No. 1 is the acme of what recent New York art rockers have yet accomplished. This may be the loudest piece of music this writer has ever heard." John Rockwell, New York Times. July 19, 1981
"Imagine a lion roaring and put your head in its mouth. Then you might get close to the impact of Branca's music. All the flesh of pop music is hacked away, but the terrifying bones still remain." New Musical Express, UK, January 14, 1984
"He succeeds in turning over the so-called evil sexual powers of rock music in its primitive state into a form of resistance." Kim Gordon, Art Forum, January 1983
"Awesome orchestral impact of Branca's massed minimalist heavy metal mantra." Michael Shore, SoHo News, August 8, 1981
"Those who heard Symphony No. 1 in 1981 knew it left them all shook up. This recording shows there was method in the mayhem. Huge and brutal and utterly magnificent." Jon Pareles, New York Times, Liner Notes, 1983
Branca: Symphony 1
Branca: Symphony 1, Music, Glenn Branca, Stephan Wischerth, Margot Zvaleko, Craig Bromberg, Ned Sublette, Robert Harrison [guitars], Ann Demarinis, Wharton Tiers, Richard Edson, A massive behemoth of wailing guitars. W/Thuston Moore, Ned Sublette, Lee Ranaldo & more. (ROIR), Classical Artists, Contemporary Instrumental, Experimental, Modern Composition, No Wave, Orchestral, Orchestral Music, Pop, Rock
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- Symphony No. 1 is great!
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- great piece of music
- Absolute sh*t
- puh-lease
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Branca: Symphony 1
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- The Ascension
- Lesson No. 1
- Theoretical Record
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ASIN: B000009PWY
Release Date: 1998-09-01 |
Tracks:
- Symphony No. 1: First Movement
- Symphony No. 1: Second Movement
- Symphony No. 1: Third Movement
- Symphony No. 1: Fourth Movement
Album Description
For Fans Of: Sonic Youth, Swans, Helmet, Rhys Chatham, Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, LaMonte Young, Noise Bands, Guitar Driven Heavy Metal. Recorded July 18 & 19, 1981 at The Performing Garage, NYC. Produced by Lee Ranaldo.Digitally Remastered By Glenn Branca and Wharton Tiers June 1998!
Performers: Glenn Branca (Soprano and steel-wire guitars) with:
Craig Bromberg:
Tenor, soprano, bowed; Richard Edson :Trumpet and octave guitar; Dave Buk: Trumpet, baritone horn; Ned Sublette:Soprano, tenor and steel-wire guitars; Ann DeMarinis:
Keyboard, percussion: Barbara Ess: Baritone and bass guitars, percussion; Robert Harrison: Soprano, tenor and bowed guitars; Thurston Moore: Tenor, soprano and bowed guitars; Lee Ranaldo: Soprano and steel-wire guitars; Wharton Tiers:Keyboard, soprano and steel-wire guitars /percussion; Gail Varchon:
Keyboard; Fritz Van Orden: Tenor saxophone; Stephan Wischerth: Drums, percussion; Margot Zvaleko: French horn; David Rosenblum: Baritone and Steel-wire guitars
What the press had to say about Glenn Branca and "Symphony No. 1" released as a ROIR cassette in 1983:
"Symphony No. 1 is the acme of what recent New York art rockers have yet accomplished. This may be the loudest piece of music this writer has ever heard." John Rockwell, New York Times. July 19, 1981
"Imagine a lion roaring and put your head in its mouth. Then you might get close to the impact of Branca's music. All the flesh of pop music is hacked away, but the terrifying bones still remain." New Musical Express, UK, January 14, 1984
"He succeeds in turning over the so-called evil sexual powers of rock music in its primitive state into a form of resistance." Kim Gordon, Art Forum, January 1983
"Awesome orchestral impact of Branca's massed minimalist heavy metal mantra." Michael Shore, SoHo News, August 8, 1981
"Those who heard Symphony No. 1 in 1981 knew it left them all shook up. This recording shows there was method in the mayhem. Huge and brutal and utterly magnificent." Jon Pareles, New York Times, Liner Notes, 1983
Customer Reviews:
Symphony No. 1 is great!.......2005-12-30
This symphony by Glenn Branca is great! Each movement is as powerful and rockish as the last while managing to be quite different from the one that proceeds it. The first movement is a rocking tour de force based around a simple E chord and its harmonies, dissonances, etc. The drums are pounding and primal on this one. The second movement is like psuedo-gamelan music, with lots of choked cymbals, chimes, horn blats, and things of that sort. The third movement builds around a throbbing guitar-and-horn, um, (I'm at a loss for words) which is eventually accompanied by rolling, thudding drums, crescendoing and becoming more and more startling in its power until it ends abruptly at about 17 minutes and 30 seconds. The fourth and final movement starts with simple, thudding percussion (including metal barrels), accompanied by low-pitched guitars, and slowly, gradually begins to change, and is all in all, a great finish to the piece.
Branca has composed a near-masterwork with this symphony, and to the reviewer who claimed you could do this with your kid brother and his buddies in your basement, I'd like to see him try. I look forward to purchasing more of Branca's compositions in the future.
.......2005-02-13
the comments of the people before have been very disapointing and very ignorant. This peice is a masterwork of giagantic porportions very itricitly composed. The ignorant narrow-minded naysayers below me just dont understand anything that pushes the limits
This is a must have for anyone that isnt an ignorant narrow minded naysayer but even for them it is truely a must have
great piece of music.......2004-11-10
I have no idea where some of the other people reviewing this album are on, especially the one that likes to go around giving instrumental bands 1-star reviews and praising Nickelback and Creed. With that being said, this CD is awesome! This is definetly at the top of Branca's list along with The Ascension and Lesson No.1. The sound on this CD is massive, I believe he had 16 musicians on this symphony. This is music for people with open-minds. Excellent.
Absolute sh*t.......2004-10-20
I've heard so many people tout Glenn Branca as the single most important artist in the past 2 decades. That's a pretty loft claim to live up to. Laughably, he falls ENTIRELY short. This is amassed, dissonant ("out-of-tune" would be the more appropriate phrase here), amusical GARBAGE. What Branca has composed here is utter crap, and the crappiness of the music itself is only augmented by the musicians involved with performing it, in particular, Stephan Wiscerth's awful drumming. I understand that Thurston Moore, Lee Renaldo, Michael Gira, and (less importantly) Page Hamilton have all played with him, but do not let that fool you -- Branca's music is completely unredeeming, humorless, and pretentious to the point of ridiculousness. Don't be fooled!
puh-lease.......2003-09-23
To call Branca a composer is like calling someone's nose-picking Art. He is without a doubt the most talentless, the most uninteresting, the most humorless tertiary affiliate of the music scene, a man comfortable neither in the world of progressive rock (he has no rhythm, no chops, no ear) nor that of serious, i.e., classical music (he has no understanding of composition--I doubt he even knows how the circle of five works). It really doesn't matter how many guitarists he's got for this particular recording. They all sound terrible because the music Braca "wrote" is terrible. Just one monotonous strum on all six strings after another, with no rhyme or reason. You can do this with your kid brother and his twelve-year-old buddies anytime of the day in the luxury of your own basement. And you'll have more fun listening to the result taped on your beat-up radio afterward.
Average customer rating:
- Symphony No. 1 is great!
-
- great piece of music
- Absolute sh*t
- puh-lease
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Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Plexus)
Glenn Branca
Manufacturer: Roir
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Binding: Audio CD
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Similar Items:
- The Ascension
- Lesson No. 1
- Theoretical Record
- Symphony Nos. 8 & 10 (The Mysteries)
- DNA on DNA
ASIN: B0000059XA
Release Date: 1992-04-15 |
Tracks:
- Symphony No.1
- Symphony No. 1 (Continued)
- Symphony No. 1 (Continued)
- Symphony No. 1 (Continued)
Album Description
For Fans Of: Sonic Youth, Swans, Helmet, Rhys Chatham, Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, LaMonte Young, Noise Bands, Guitar Driven Heavy Metal. Recorded July 18 & 19, 1981 at The Performing Garage, NYC. Produced by Lee Ranaldo.Digitally Remastered By Glenn Branca and Wharton Tiers June 1998!
Performers: Glenn Branca (Soprano and steel-wire guitars) with:
Craig Bromberg:
Tenor, soprano, bowed; Richard Edson :Trumpet and octave guitar; Dave Buk: Trumpet, baritone horn; Ned Sublette:Soprano, tenor and steel-wire guitars; Ann DeMarinis:
Keyboard, percussion: Barbara Ess: Baritone and bass guitars, percussion; Robert Harrison: Soprano, tenor and bowed guitars; Thurston Moore: Tenor, soprano and bowed guitars; Lee Ranaldo: Soprano and steel-wire guitars; Wharton Tiers:Keyboard, soprano and steel-wire guitars /percussion; Gail Varchon:
Keyboard; Fritz Van Orden: Tenor saxophone; Stephan Wischerth: Drums, percussion; Margot Zvaleko: French horn; David Rosenblum: Baritone and Steel-wire guitars
What the press had to say about Glenn Branca and "Symphony No. 1" released as a ROIR cassette in 1983:
"Symphony No. 1 is the acme of what recent New York art rockers have yet accomplished. This may be the loudest piece of music this writer has ever heard." John Rockwell, New York Times. July 19, 1981
"Imagine a lion roaring and put your head in its mouth. Then you might get close to the impact of Branca's music. All the flesh of pop music is hacked away, but the terrifying bones still remain." New Musical Express, UK, January 14, 1984
"He succeeds in turning over the so-called evil sexual powers of rock music in its primitive state into a form of resistance." Kim Gordon, Art Forum, January 1983
"Awesome orchestral impact of Branca's massed minimalist heavy metal mantra." Michael Shore, SoHo News, August 8, 1981
"Those who heard Symphony No. 1 in 1981 knew it left them all shook up. This recording shows there was method in the mayhem. Huge and brutal and utterly magnificent." Jon Pareles, New York Times, Liner Notes, 1983
Customer Reviews:
Symphony No. 1 is great!.......2005-12-30
This symphony by Glenn Branca is great! Each movement is as powerful and rockish as the last while managing to be quite different from the one that proceeds it. The first movement is a rocking tour de force based around a simple E chord and its harmonies, dissonances, etc. The drums are pounding and primal on this one. The second movement is like psuedo-gamelan music, with lots of choked cymbals, chimes, horn blats, and things of that sort. The third movement builds around a throbbing guitar-and-horn, um, (I'm at a loss for words) which is eventually accompanied by rolling, thudding drums, crescendoing and becoming more and more startling in its power until it ends abruptly at about 17 minutes and 30 seconds. The fourth and final movement starts with simple, thudding percussion (including metal barrels), accompanied by low-pitched guitars, and slowly, gradually begins to change, and is all in all, a great finish to the piece.
Branca has composed a near-masterwork with this symphony, and to the reviewer who claimed you could do this with your kid brother and his buddies in your basement, I'd like to see him try. I look forward to purchasing more of Branca's compositions in the future.
.......2005-02-13
the comments of the people before have been very disapointing and very ignorant. This peice is a masterwork of giagantic porportions very itricitly composed. The ignorant narrow-minded naysayers below me just dont understand anything that pushes the limits
This is a must have for anyone that isnt an ignorant narrow minded naysayer but even for them it is truely a must have
great piece of music.......2004-11-10
I have no idea where some of the other people reviewing this album are on, especially the one that likes to go around giving instrumental bands 1-star reviews and praising Nickelback and Creed. With that being said, this CD is awesome! This is definetly at the top of Branca's list along with The Ascension and Lesson No.1. The sound on this CD is massive, I believe he had 16 musicians on this symphony. This is music for people with open-minds. Excellent.
Absolute sh*t.......2004-10-20
I've heard so many people tout Glenn Branca as the single most important artist in the past 2 decades. That's a pretty loft claim to live up to. Laughably, he falls ENTIRELY short. This is amassed, dissonant ("out-of-tune" would be the more appropriate phrase here), amusical GARBAGE. What Branca has composed here is utter crap, and the crappiness of the music itself is only augmented by the musicians involved with performing it, in particular, Stephan Wiscerth's awful drumming. I understand that Thurston Moore, Lee Renaldo, Michael Gira, and (less importantly) Page Hamilton have all played with him, but do not let that fool you -- Branca's music is completely unredeeming, humorless, and pretentious to the point of ridiculousness. Don't be fooled!
puh-lease.......2003-09-23
To call Branca a composer is like calling someone's nose-picking Art. He is without a doubt the most talentless, the most uninteresting, the most humorless tertiary affiliate of the music scene, a man comfortable neither in the world of progressive rock (he has no rhythm, no chops, no ear) nor that of serious, i.e., classical music (he has no understanding of composition--I doubt he even knows how the circle of five works). It really doesn't matter how many guitarists he's got for this particular recording. They all sound terrible because the music Braca "wrote" is terrible. Just one monotonous strum on all six strings after another, with no rhyme or reason. You can do this with your kid brother and his twelve-year-old buddies anytime of the day in the luxury of your own basement. And you'll have more fun listening to the result taped on your beat-up radio afterward.
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