Attica; Coming Together; Les moutons de Panurge
by Frederic Rzewski
- Type: Album
- Released: 1974
- Label: Opus One
- Country: United States
- Community rating: 3.93/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A towering, politically charged triumph of the American minimalist movement. The album's centerpiece, 'Coming Together', features relentlessly driving, rhythmic instrumental patterns set beneath a spoken text written by Sam Melville, an inmate who died during the 1971 Attica Prison riot.
Genres
Descriptors: repetitive, conceptual, avant-garde, experimental, atonal, dissonant, complex
Tracklist
Credits
- Jon Gibson - alto saxophone
- Richard Youngstein - bass
- Alvin Curran - synthesizer, piccolo trumpet
- Sam Melville - text by
- Garrett List - trombone
- Karl Berger - vibraphone
- Joan Kalisch - viola
- Steve Ben Israel - voice [speaker]