Philip Glass - Trial 2 (Prison) - Einstein on the Beach (1979)

I was in this prematurely air-conditioned super market
and there were all these aisles
and there were all these bathing caps that you could buy
that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them
they were red and yellow and blue
I wasn't tempted to buy one
but I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding
the beach.

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[KAWORU2123]

Marc Jacobs :D

[Lighthazzles]

I first heard this in 1984 on a tape of a radio show David Bowie did in the 70s called 'I am a DJ' This was among his chosen music pieces - he has such eclectic and fantastic tastes and it got me into leftfield music and film from then on.

Thanks for uploading this.

[cosmicku]

is this the Laurie Anderson version?

[RufusT9]

@Koumbaros1 nice one!

[Koumbaros1]

I'm gonna see Glass and Wilson in Montpellier for the 1st worldwide 2012-2013 Einstein on the Beach tour representation.

A dream comes true! All the 3 of them will be presents: Wilson-Glass-Childs.

[skklans]

.....bathing caps that you could buy

THAT had these kind of fourth of July plumes on them

[Lighthazzles]

@RufusT9 - Yes, all that experimental post-punk stuff from the late 70s has dated very well

and still sound fresh and wierd. Glad I can now listen to this on a non-perishable format.

The music conjures up all sorts of visuals in the air for me - numbers, keyboards, tape-loops, studios and just sheer indulgent creativity. It's a bit like old stlye Electro - the old stuff just sounds much better and hands on and than all this 'convenient' stuff now.

[RufusT9]

@Lighthazzles remember this BBC radio programme- sometime in 1979? Bowie suggested if we didn't like it we went off to the kitchen & made an omelette instead. The part beginning 12:05 literally knocked me off my feet- I'd never heard anything quite like this before. With only a snatch of it on a C30 cassette, I wrote to the BBC asking what it was, but it took me 4 years to find the album. If I remember correctly, FZ and Sparks also took part in this radio series

[Squizree]

This is lunacy

[rankthis]

I feel the tumbling down the tumbling down I feel the Earth move the Earth move ...