An Angel Moves Too Fast to See

by Rhys Chatham

An Angel Moves Too Fast to See cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 2006
  • Label: Table of the Elements
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 42:44
  • Community rating: 3.85/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Chatham scored the work for one hundred electric guitars with electric bass and drums, its five movements stacking strummed harmonics into cathedral-sized chords. Composed at the end of the nineteen-eighties and recorded for this standalone release, it extends the guitar-orchestra idea he first pursued in downtown New York's no wave scene.

Genres

Descriptors: guitars, long-form, repetitive, monumental, wall-of-sound, avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. Prelude (7:36)
  2. Intro (5:06)
  3. Allegro (8:39)
  4. No Trees Left: Every Blade Of Grass Is Screaming (6:35)
  5. Adagio (14:48)

Credits

  • Jeff Hunt - art direction, executive-producer [executive production]
  • Martin Wheeler - mixed by
  • Didier Cocatrix - photography by [angel band]
  • Shigeo Anzai - photography by [famous guitar trio performance (1979)]

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