The Third Ascension

by Glenn Branca

The Third Ascension cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 4 October 2019
  • Label: Systems Neutralizers
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:04:36
  • Community rating: 3.56/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released shortly after the avant-garde composer's death, this performance features an army of electric guitars executing a devastating, microtonal symphony. Building upon the legacy of his seminal 1981 masterwork, the intensely dissonant, deafening waves of harmonics demonstrate Branca's enduring vision of merging rock instrumentation with apocalyptic modern classical structures.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, dissonant, instrumental, noisy, uncommon-time-signatures, avant-garde, scary

Tracklist

  1. Velvets And Pearls (6:06)
  2. German Expressionism (10:36)
  3. The Smoke (Guitar Concerto for Arad Evans) (16:05)
  4. Lesson No. 4 (7:16)
  5. Twisting In Space (8:02)
  6. Cold Thing (La Belle Dame sans Merci) (16:29)

Credits

  • Greg McMullen - bass
  • Robert Longo - cover [cover art by], task artwork
  • Owen Weaver - drums
  • Arad Evans - guitar
  • Brendon Randall-Myers - guitar
  • Luke Schwartz - guitar

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