music clip of the day

recipe

take one electric guitar

add another

& another

& . . .

Glenn Branca Ensemble, Symphony No. 5, live, New York (The Kitchen), 1984

Part 1

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Part 2

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lagniappe

Born . . . in 1949, [Glenn Branca] . . . ignored rock until attracted to the repetitiveness of certain songs by the Kinks and Paul Revere and the Raiders. He claims to have taught himself composition by listening to guitar feedback at point-blank range for forty-five minutes at a time.

—Kyle Gann, American Music in the Twentieth Century (1997)