HARRY PARTCH GATE 5 LP PRIVATE-MICROTONAL-AVANT GARDE

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HARRY PARTCH

 REVELATION IN THE COURTHOUSE PARK LP

Gate 5 Records

Extremely rare private issue on his own Gate 5 imprint using pre-recorded tape and a wide variety of his famous unique instruments.

Some info on the release:  Very rare private pressing on Harry Partch's Gate 5 imprint, released sometime in the early 60's in very limited quantities and being thus sought after by collectors worldwide. Ritual like music blending microtonal, ancient greek and oriental influences in addition to Harry Partch's unique homemade instruments. Featuring a chorus of Women, Chorus of Men, Drums Majorettes, Brass Band, Clog Dancers, Tumblers, Guitarists, and other instrumentalists. Pre-recorded tape is occasionally part of the musical score. After the Bacchae of Euripides. Performed as part of the Festival of Contemporary Arts, University of Illinois, April 11, 1961, by the "Gate 5 Ensemble" of the University.

From the late 1930s onward, after living as a transient hobo, Harry Partch developed instruments based on his own revolutionary tuning theories (considered the first in the field since Pythagoras). He composed in isolation within the musical universe he created, but he blazed the same trails as Alois Haba, Julian Carrillo, Ivan Wyschnegradsky, and Charles Ives, drew from percussive eastern music such as gamelan, American folk, Native American, and African music, Hebrew and Christian hymns, and "lumber yards and junk shops," and would become influential to John Cage, Steve Reich, Lou Harrison, La Monte Young, Ben Johnston, Easley Blackwood, Glenn Branca, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, John Eaton, James Tenney, Rhys Chatham, Tony Conrad, and others from the avant garde; his instruments relate to the 'Structures Sonores' of Bernard and Francois Baschet and the sound sculptures and homemade instruments of Harry Bertoia, Max Neuhaus, Z'ev, Donald Knaack, Paul Panhuysen, and Bill Fontana. Some of his invented and self-built instruments include the Zymo-Xyl, Crychord, Surrogate Kithara, Chromelodeon II, Koto, Mazda Marimba, Cloud-Chamber Bowls, Diamond Marimba, Kithara I+II, Bloboy, Spoils of War, Harmonic Cannon I, Marimba Eroica, Castor and Pollux, Adapted Guitar II, Drone Devils, Gubagubi, Blue Rainbow, Gourd Tree, and Cone Gongs. (kind courtesy of keymap records)

Condition: Vinyl lies in very good+ condition, has some marks which don't affect playing and some signs from the taking out of the inner sleeve , while it plays with some crackle, while cover lies in very good+ condition, its' most important defect, being 2 tears on the front cover (see picture), otherwise it would be near mint.

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