Glenn Branca -the Ascension: The Sequel
 

THE GLENN BRANCA ENSEMBLEwill be performing music from the album in progress: "THE ASCENSION: THE SEQUEL" at three venues in NYC:

Links to upcoming gigs:
PS1on Sept. 5, 2009Le Poisson Rougeon Sept. 11, 2009
Issue Project Roomon Oct. 17, 2009
The members of the group are, on guitars: Reg Bloor, Evelyne Buhler, Eric Hubel and Greg McMullen, on bass: Ryan Walsh, on drums: Libby Fab and conducting: Glenn Branca.

i still think "the ascension 2: electric boogaloo" is a much better title.

BUMP

Fuck Yeah Bitches!!!!

fucking damn, i wish i was coming home tomorrow!

The new Glenn Branca Ensemble will be performing the entirety of the soon to be recorded album "The Ascension: The Sequel" at Issue Project Room on Oct. 17th.


The set will be about an hour and will include three world premieres***:


1. "The Tone Row That Ruled The World"***
2. "Carbon Monoxide"***
3. "Quadratonic"***
4. "The Blood"
5. "Lesson No. 3 (tribute to Steve Reich, 2006)"


The show will open with excerpts from the Ericka Beckman film "135 Grand Street 1979" that includes the only known footage of No Wave bands: Theoretical Girls, The Static, Ut and Youth In Asia.


The members of The Glenn Branca Ensemble are, on guitars: Reg Bloor, Evelyne Buhler, Eric Hubel and Greg McMullen, on bass: Ryan Walsh, on drums: Libby Fab and conducting: Glenn Branca.

E# E# E#E#, smoke break,E#

hahahaha

!!!!!!

it would be nice if they took this on the road but thats very unlikley to happen.

Is this the guitar tunning used by Glenn??? :eek:

nope
he's playing in the key of S

He's no Jimi Hendrix.

He is certainly as original, innovative and distinctive a player as Hendrix. When he plays guitar, that is, he only conducts in the Ensemble.

Yeah, I know everyone's probably seen it, but damn I just love this video so much.

Say what you will, but the original Ascension is definitely one of my top 50 or so favourite albums ever, and nothing Hendrix ever recorded comes close (as amazing as he was).

I posted that video earlier today in the "Sonic Jukebox PT 2" thread. :)

GLENN BRANCA THE ASCENSION: THE SEQUEL
CD RELEASE SHOW

Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 7:30 PM at
Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleeker St. NYC

Details: [FONT='Helvetica','sans-serif']http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/881[/font]
Tickets $15 adv./18 door: [FONT='Helvetica','sans-serif']http://lepoissonrouge.inticketing.com/events/66798[/font]

The Ensemble will be performing the entire new record.

The show will also include a slide show by Robert Longo from his newly re-released Men In The Cities book which includes the cover drawings for the original Ascension.
The cover of the new record is a recent drawing by Longo.

The CD will be on sale at the show.
Both Glenn and Robert will be signing.
If you can't wait, it will be available on Amazon in about a week.
[FONT='Helvetica','sans-serif']http://www.amazon.com/Ascension-Sequel-Glenn-Branca/dp/B0037GTHMQ/ref=sr_1_24?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1266290061&sr=1-24[/font]

BONUS:
A free download of Glenn's Symphony No. 14, First Movement is available at: [FONT='Helvetica','sans-serif']http://glennbranca.com[/font]/

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