Ilhan Mimaroglu
Face The Windmills, Turn Left (LP)
LabelFinnadar RecordsGenreExperimental
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Ilhan Mimaroglu (1926-2012) was Turkish-born, came to Columbia in 1955 as a Rockefeller Fellow, and stayed at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center under Vladimir Ussachevsky for the rest of his American life. Through Nesuhi Ertegun he became a producer at Atlantic, where he ran his own avant-garde subsidiary Finnadar from 1971; Face the Windmills is its sixth release.
The LP collects eight short tape pieces, mostly Preludes for Magnetic Tape (Nos. 1, 2, 6, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16), revised in 1976 from sources of various dates. Visual Study No. 4 after Arshile Gorky and Bowery Bum (after Dubuffet's drawings; built from amplified rubber-band sounds) are highlights. The title piece Prelude No. 16: Face the Windmills, Turn Left (1976), with vocals from a young Janis Siegel (then about to form Manhattan Transfer), closes the album. Cover art by the Turkish painter Burhan Doğançay. Mastered at Atlantic Studios by George Piros.
Release notes
Track A1 is Visual Study No. 4 after Arshile Gorky. Track A3 is Visual Study No. 3 after Jean Dubuffet. Track B3 is "Face The Windmills, Turn Left". All selections were composed and realized by İlhan Mimaroğlu in the studios of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York, N.Y., are recorded in revised versions of 1976 specially prepared for this album and are published by Seesaw Music, ASCAP. Mastered at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York, N.Y. Printed in U.S.A.
| A1 | Agony | 9:06 | |
| A2 | Le Tombeau D'Edgar Poe | 7:04 | |
| A3 | Bowery Bum | 2:43 | |
| A4 | Intermezzo | 3:02 | |
| Preludes For Magnetic Tape | |||
| B1 | Prelude No. 1 | 2:50 | |
| B2 | Prelude No. 2 | 2:24 | |
| B3 | Prelude No. 6 | 2:14 | |
| B4 | Prelude No. 9 | 2:15 | |
| B5 | Prelude No. 11 | 3:03 | |
| B6 | Prelude No. 12 | 2:31 | |
| B7 | Prelude No. 14 | 3:42 | |
| B8 | Prelude No. 16 | 2:01 | |
- Burhan Doğançay
- Artwork [Cover Art]
- Ilhan Mimaroglu
- Composed By, Performer [Realized], Liner Notes
- George Piros
- Mastered By
