Glenn Branca - Symphony 5 (CD)

2008 repress. Subtitled "Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere". Recorded in 1984 but held up in a post-production stasis until now, this is music for 5 guitars, mallet guitar, violin, drums, bass, keyboards, that is being touted as the "most dense, cacophonous Branca symphony yet." "Glenn's music gets quite often inaccurately described as wall-of-sound/noise/guitars/whatever. A wall exists for the purpose of containment. 'Symphony No. 5' is expansive beyond limits, smashing the wall (at least sonically) between this dimension & all others. There is quite audibly the garbling's of the voices of alien intelligences banging at the doors of our world as we dream of theirs.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Symphony No. 5: First Movement
2. Symphony No. 5: Second Movement
3. Symphony No. 5: Third Movement
4. Symphony No. 5: Fourth Movement
5. Symphony No. 5: Fifth Movement (Part I)
6. Symphony No. 5: Fifth Movement (Part II)
7. Symphony No. 5: Fifth Movement (Part III)
8. Symphony No. 5: Sixth Movement