Search - Ilhan Mimaroglu :: Agitation

Finally back in print, we?re happy to present two albums of "agitprop" electronic music (Tract and To Kill A Sunrise) cut between 1968 and 1975 by mysterious & controversial Turkish composer Ilhan Mimaroglu ? one of the truly underrepresented pioneers of the golden age of the Princeton-Columbia electronic music scene. Mimaroglu is best known for his work with Edgard Varese, mentor Vladimir Ussachevsky, a spellbinding collaboration with jazz musician Freddy Hubbard and as a chief composer of Fellini?s Satyricon, as well as for electronic albums released on his own Finnadar label. Produced as a direct reaction to an extended period of intense repression in Turkey, Tract is a scrambled mash-up peppered with spunky electronic bursts, looped radio ads, the breathy, defiant vocals of Turkish singer Tuly Sand and the go-go-licious backing jams of little-known psych group Topsy Turvy Moon ? all shot through with lines lifted from old left-wing standbys Chairman Mao, Karl Marx & Bertolt Brecht. To Kill A Sunrise follows suit with a wild, uncompromising, orgiastic electro-dirge for those who are murdered by the lackeys of the ruling class while the collection closer, "La Ruche," brings the audio gestalt to a somewhat subdued end. Brilliantly remastered from the original tapes, Agitation features close to 80 minutes of music, original liner notes and new notes by Keith Fullerton Whitman (Hrvatski).