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Philip Glass : Analog | 
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| Artists: Philip Glass, Analog
Label: Orange Mountain Music
Category: Music
List Price: $17.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 168814
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 801837002928
EAN: 0801837002928
ASIN: B000HXDTEE
Release Date: August 29, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Etoile Polaire | | • | Victor's Lament (From Etoile Polaire) | | • | River Run (From Etoile Polaire) | | • | Mon Pere, Mon Pere (From Etoile Polaire) | | • | Are Years What? (For Marianne Moore) | | • | Lady Day (From Etoile Polaire) | | • | Ange des Oranges (From Etoile Polaire) | | • | Ave (From Etoile Polaire) | | • | Ik-Ook (From Etoile Polaire) | | • | Montage (From Etoile Polaire) | | • | Part IV (From Dressed Like an Egg) | | • | Part V (From Dressed Like an Egg) | | • | Part VI (From Dressed Like an Egg) | | • | Mad Rush for organ |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Recycled June 27, 2007
David Toub (Wyncote, PA United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The music is great, but I already have all of it, and have had this in some cases for decades. North Star has been available since the 70's and one can still procure it online. Dressed Like an Egg is nothing more, as best I can tell, than Another Look at Harmony, Part IV, which was released a few years ago on CD. Mad Rush has also been around for ages, and certainly isn't a significant piece.
So the music's great, but this album is misleading. None of this is "analog," in any sense of the word. Nor is it newly discovered music or even newly released music.
 Beautiful recording of early Glass. February 22, 2007
J. LaCoss (Los Angeles, CA USA)
The liner notes state that this album stressed the recording technology at the time. It's great.
No surprise that the music is less mature than recent work, but it is unmistakably Glass.
CLASSIC! January 23, 2007
R. Guerin (Brooklyn, NY)
Even as a person with a more than healthy appetite for the music of Philip Glass, I had never had the occasion to hear Dressed like an Egg nor had I ever heard this 16 and a half minute redition of Mad Rush.
Besides the wonderful remixing and remastering (a treatment more of Glass' aged catalog deserves), hearing this "early" music performed and recorded under the supervision of the composer, who was arguably at the height of his revolutionary period, with the seemingly purest music this listener had ever heard-the unabashed joy of music making and simultaneous self-awareness of an artist at the zenith of his "revolutionary creativity", brings about the conclusion that this type of experience is unprecedented in our times.
North Star, Dressed like an Egg, and Mad Rush all date to a period in Glass compositional life (the composer was about 40 years old), when he was officially past his "minimalist period", by about 5 years. The results of him, "putting back into the music" using melodies and harmonic development without shame or embarrassment, turned out to be incredibly telling as we see the composer's ouevre now 30 years later.
This music, which sounds really wonderful on these recordings, are a total treat, and an essential entry into the recording legacy of the most important composer in American history.
 Recycled Glass October 27, 2006
roland (Idaho)
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is yet another release that is mostly stuff already released. Why can't Orange Mountain stop ripping us off and actual release something that is not 80% recycled? Philip Glass sucks now anyways, he doesn't even compose or play the original minimalist stuff that got him recognized. Now all he does it compose long, boring operas and uninspired symphonies.
If you do not already own North Star, then this album may be a good buy, but if you do own North Star and other stuff like Solo Piano - then you are basically just buying stuff you already have.
 Glass At His Best October 11, 2006
directions (Flushing, NY United States)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This was a transitional period for Phlip Glass. After Einstein on the Beach, his high water mark, he decided to gradually alter his style and eventually shifted away from minimalism to a more operatic and symphonic style. However, "Analog" captures his experiments with minimalist organ has the complete soundtrack to the film "Northstar" about a sculptor's works (I believe this is out of print) which condenses his minimalist style to pop song length. That is followed by two pieces from an ep for the Soho News. The peak of this issue is "Mad Rush", an unreleased piece from the time that lives up to his name. Also "Analog" belatedly realizes the fact that many fans of Glass (mine included) prefer his music on analog organs, rather than digital (which sound cold in comparison) synths or acoustic reissues of early analog pieces.
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