Four Manifestations on Six Elements

by Charlemagne Palestine

Four Manifestations on Six Elements cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1974
  • Label: Sonnabend
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.82/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Charlemagne Palestine's 'Four Manifestations on Six Elements' is a seminal work of early minimalism and drone music. Utilizing sustained tones on an electronic oscillator and a B枚sendorfer piano, the album explores the physical and psychoacoustic properties of sound. It stands as a pivotal document in the development of the downtown New York avant-garde scene.

Genres

Descriptors: Minimal, minimalistic, instrumental, repetitive, avant-garde, ambient, piano, minimal, delicate, droning, long-form

Tracklist

  1. Two Perfect Fifths, A Major Third Apart, Reinforced Twice (1973)
  2. Perfect Fifths In The Rhythm Three Against Two For B枚sendorfer Piano - One (1973)
  3. Perfect Fifths In The Rhythm Three Against Two For B枚sendorfer Piano - Two (1973)
  4. Perfect Fifths In The Rhythm Three Against Two For B枚sendorfer Piano - Three (1973)
  5. Sliding Fifths For Piano (1972)
  6. Three Perfect Fifths, A Major Second Apart, Reinforced Twice (1973)

Credits

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