HARRY PARTCH THE BEWITCHED 1973 rec1957 2LP fullversion

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HARRY PARTCH: THE BEWITCHED (CRI – USA 1973) 2LP ****** condition (records/cover): mint / excellent+ ****** first edition of the complete recording (as opposed to the abridged version previously published on partch’s own gate 5 records) of this fantastic opera by higly influential maverick composer. all the good references to harry partch’s music are contained in the description that i lifted from the internet and paste right here: “from the late 1930s onward, after living as a transient hobo, 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 experimental and microtonal composers like 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, henk badings, and others from the avant garde; his instruments relate to the 'structures sonores' of bernard and francois baschet and jacques lasry and the sound sculptures and homemade instruments of harry bertoia, max neuhaus, z'ev, donald knaack, paul panhuysen, bill fontana, mario bertoncini, bruce nauman, robert rutman, etc.”. gatefold sleeve, including six stapled pages taken from the autumn 1986 issue of pitch magazine with an essay by harry partch. ****** PLEASE CHECK THE ACTUAL SHIPPING RATES: unregistered priority mail is about 9 dollars to europe and 13 dollars to the rest of the world (except for oceania where it is 17 dollars), while registered airmail is about 18 dollars to europe and 25 dollars to the rest of the world (except for oceania where it is 33 dollars). winning multiple items can make you save on postage. preferred payments is paypal, although other options may be available. PLEASE WAIT FOR MY INVOICE BEFORE SENDING ANY PAYMENT. thank you for looking. ****** an auction of mainly experimental library, electronic musique concrete and assorted strangeness albums, for fans of alessandro alessandroni cantori moderni angelo francesco lavagnino armando sciascia.armando trovajoli giampiero boneschi augusto martelli berto pisano bruno nicolai daniele patucchi edda dell'orso egisto macchi fabio fabor fiorenzo carpi francesco de masi franco de gemini gianni marchetti franco godi franco micalizzi gianni ferrio giorgio gaslini giuliano sorgini guido & maurizio de angelis luis bacalov mario molino mario nascimbene pietro grossi gianpaolo chiti nico fidenco nora orlandi piero piccioni piero umiliani riz ortolani roberto pregadio stelvio cipriani teo usuelli walter rizzati gianni mazza marcello giombini marc quattro braen’s machine gruppo nuova consonanza nurse with wound horrific child jean pierre massiera pierre henry camille sauvage eric framond janko nilovic nino cardini roger roger bernard lubat bernard estardy cecil leuter francois de roubaix vladimir cosma eddie warner peter thomas yuji ohno luc ferrari pierre schaeffer pierre henry jean schwarz francois bayle edgardo canton andre almuro christian clozier jacques lejeune jean claude eloy john cage karlheinz stockhausen robert ashley alvin lucier gordon mumma harry partch etc.