Symphony 1

Glenn Branca | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 15, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Roir
• ASIN: B0000059XA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,408,239 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Symphony No.1

2. Symphony No. 1 (Continued)

3. Symphony No. 1 (Continued)

4. Symphony No. 1 (Continued)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great piece of music, November 10, 2004

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tyler curtis (chicago, il) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Symphony 1 (Audio CD)

I have no idea where some of the other people reviewing this album are on, especially the one that likes to go around giving instrumental bands 1-star reviews and praising Nickelback and Creed. With that being said, this CD is awesome! This is definetly at the top of Branca's list along with The Ascension and Lesson No.1. The sound on this CD is massive, I believe he had 16 musicians on this symphony. This is music for people with open-minds. Excellent.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars , February 12, 2005

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Tim Tape - See all my reviews

This review is from: Symphony 1 (Audio CD)

the comments of the people before have been very disapointing and very ignorant. This peice is a masterwork of giagantic porportions very itricitly composed. The ignorant narrow-minded naysayers below me just dont understand anything that pushes the limits

This is a must have for anyone that isnt an ignorant narrow minded naysayer but even for them it is truely a must have

5.0 out of 5 stars Proto-SY, December 25, 2008

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Surferofromantica "S.O.R." (Singapore) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Branca: Symphony 1 (Audio CD)

The legendary Glen Branca album, could be called avant garde classical music, but really more like the sound of an army of guitars with percussion and some horns. Thurston and Lee from Sonic Youth played in it, and the wave of dissonant guitars is quite recognizable, only without bass or vocals. It's called a symphony, and was supposedly done in four continuous parts, but it really sounds like four distinct pieces that were recorded live and range from 10 minutes to 17 minutes in length. The longest one is also the coolest one - it just drones and drones and drones. Nice.