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Glenn Branca - Lesson no.1 for electric guitar

Glenn Branca - Lesson no.1 for electric guitar (08:19)

Artist: Glenn Branca Album: Lesson no.1 Year: 1983

Glenn Branca: Live solo 1978...

Glenn Branca: Live solo 1978... (02:00)

The legendary avante garde guitar composer in his element. Taught Moore and Ronaldo how to hold the guitar. All hail...

Glenn Branca: Structure (1981 The Ascension no wave noise)

Glenn Branca: Structure (1981 The Ascension no wave noise) (02:57)

Footage lovingly lifted from a truly great British horror short, Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? starring a young (yet old) Warren Mitchell.... Music from the pioneering no-wave artist, Mr. Glenn Branca - here making a...

Glenn Branca 'Hallucination city symphony for 100 guitars'

Glenn Branca 'Hallucination city symphony for 100 guitars' (03:43)

this is a rehearsal for Glenn Branca's 100 electric guitars symphony which he performed for the Happy New Ears festival in Kortrijk sept 2006, the musicians are both amateurs as professionals, the conductor is not...

Glenn Branca: Symphony No 13 :Hallucination City (excerpts)

Glenn Branca: Symphony No 13 :Hallucination City (excerpts) (09:01)

More excerpts from Glenn Branca's Symphony No 13: Hallucination City, performed at the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London on the 12th October, 2007.

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Glenn Branca Biography

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Glenn Branca (born October 6 1948 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is a highly influential avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series.

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Glenn Branca's Best Songs

  • 1. Structure
  • 2. Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar
  • 3. The Ascension
  • 4. The Spectacular Commodity
  • 5. Lesson No. 2
  • 6. Light Field (In Consonance)
  • 7. First Movement
  • 8. Third Movement
  • 9. Lesson No.2
  • 10. Dissonance
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Glenn Branca Discography

Glenn Branca albums.

  • Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses - 23/01/2007 (Atavistic/US)
  • Lesson No. 1 - 19/04/2004 (Acute Records/US)
  • Symphony No. 5: Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere - 18/06/1996 (Atavistic/US)
  • Symphony No. 9: L'eve future - 13/06/1995 (Point Music/US)
  • The World Upside Down - 25/10/1994 (Atavistic/US)
  • Symphony No. 3: Gloria - 08/04/1994 (Atavistic/US)
  • Symphony Nos. 8 & 10: The Mysteries - (Atavistic/US)
  • Symphony No. 2: The Peak of the Sacred - (Atavistic/US)
  • Symphony No. 6: Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven - (Blast First/GB)
  • Symphony No. 1: Tonal Plexus - (ROIR/US)
  • The Ascension - (99 Records/US)
  • Lesson No.1 - (99 Records/US)

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