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Release Date: 2004

Label: Locust Music

Packaged in a white-tray jewel case with an 8-page booklet that includes credits, notes, and release information.

Originally issued as Folkways FTQ 33951 & FTS 33441.

© Folkways Records & Service Corp.

Under license from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Used by permission.
This edition © & ℗ 2004 Locust Music, a division of Locust Media.

"Tract" composed and realized in the studios of American Center for Students and Artists, Paris, France, and Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York, N.Y. (1972-74).
Text based on direct and paraphrased quotations from Alexander Bakunin, Bertolt Brecht, Jean-Baptiste Clément, Mahir Cayan, Nâzim Hikmet, Piotr Kropotkin, Mao Tse-tung, Karl Marx & Eugène Pottier.
The voice of Nâzim Hikmet and fragment from Groupe 17's recording of l'Internationale, courtesy of Le Chant du Monde, Paris, France.

"To Kill a Sunrise" composed at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, N.Y. (1974).

"La Ruche" composed at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, ORTF, Paris, France (1968).
An ORTF-GRM comission [sic].

Original liner notes reprinted courtesy of Ilhan Mimaroglu.

Special thanks to Erdem Helvacioglu, Margot Nassa and D.A. Sonneborn at Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and Cathy Carapella at Diamond Time.

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