HARRY PARTCH/GATE 5/AVANT-GARDE/RARE
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OEDIPUS
You are bidding on scarce & desirable Gate 5 Records Issue D of Harry Partch’s “Oedipus†based on Sophocles’ “Oedipus the Kingâ€. Partch wrote his own text version as he describes in the liner notes on the back cover “as text which is spoken not sung but are a harmonic part of the music. The musically inflected words are a little different from ordinary speech, except as emotional tensions make them different. Assertive words and assertive music do not collide. Tone of word and tone of instrument combine in a compact expression, each providing it’s singular ingredient.†Partch’s Gate 5 Ensemble performs with odd instrumentation ranging from Cloud- Chamber bowls to adapted traditional instruments. Gate 5 records (Harry Partch) are quite scarce because distribution was only through Partch himself.
Record appears Near Mint. After carefully play grading the record I found that it played fine except Side 2, Track 4 has a few ticks to the beginning of the track. The jacket is in Very Fine condition with only slight ring abrasion to the top & bottom of the front cover and a small sticker to the upper left corner. All in all a scarce record in excellent condition & a fine work by this wonderfully eccentric and important American avant-garde composer.
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