★Venture Records
Plight & Premonition (LP)
Original Italian edition on Virgin/Venture of the collaboration between Japan's singer and Can's bass player and producer for a beautiful album of refined ambient music released in 1988, also featuring fellow Can Jaki Liebezeit.
Music In Twelve Parts (6LP box)
Ultra-rare vinyl edition of the first release of the full early 1970's landmark colossal Minimalist compostion, recorded partly in 1975 and partly in 1983, issued as a massive 6LP box set with albums with individual covers by Venture/Virgin in 1988. With insert.
Music in Twelve Parts
Music in Twelve Parts, written by Philip Glass between 1971 and 1974, is a deliberate, encyclopedic compendium of some techniques of repetition the composer had been evolving since the mid 1960s. It holds an important place in Glass's repertory - not only from a historical vantage point (as the longest and most ambitious concert piece for the Philip Glass Ensemble) but from a purely aesthetic standard as well, because Music in Twelve Parts is both a massive theoretical exercise and a deeply engr…