Hydrogen Jukebox

by Philip Glass

Hydrogen Jukebox cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 26 October 1993
  • Label: Elektra Nonesuch
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:12:27
  • Community rating: 3/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Hydrogen Jukebox' is a profound chamber opera collaboration pairing the minimalist composer's pulsating, rhythmic keyboard structures with the vocalized beat poetry of Allen Ginsberg. The thematic narrative sweeps through the social and political turmoil of post-war America with hypnotic and mesmerizing classical intensity.

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Tracklist

  1. Song #1 From Iron Horse (6:40)
  2. Song #2 Jahweh And Allah Battle (3:40)
  3. Song #3 From Iron Horse (2:54)
  4. Song #4 To P.O. (3:42)
  5. Song #5 From Crossing Nation; Over Denver Again; Going To Chicago And To Poe: Over The Planet, Air Albany-Baltimore (5:42)
  6. Song #6 From Wichita Vortex Sutra (7:45)
  7. Song #7 From Howl (5:56)
  8. Song #8 From Cabin In The Rockies (4:23)
  9. Song #9 From Nagasaki Days (Numbers In Red Notebook) (0:40)
  10. Song #10 Aunt Rose (4:58)
  11. Song #11 From The Green Automobile (6:00)
  12. Song #12 From N. S. A. Dope Calypso (5:51)
  13. Song #13 From Nagasaki Days (Everybody's Fantasy) (4:56)
  14. Song #14 Ayers Rock / Uluru Song And "Throw Out The Yellow Journalists..." (4:08)
  15. Song #15 Father Death Blues (From Don't Grow Old) (5:12)

Credits

  • Gregory Purnhagen - baritone vocals
  • Nathaniel Watson - baritone vocals
  • The Philip Glass Ensemble - ensemble
  • Carol Wincenc - flute
  • Martin Goldray - keyboards, conductor, programmed by [synthesizer]
  • Mary Ann Hart - mezzo-soprano vocals
  • Frank Cassara - percussion
  • Jim Pugliese - percussion

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