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The Ascension by Glenn Branca.

Tracks:
Lesson No. 2
Spectacular Commodity, The
Structure
Lightfield (In Consonance)
Ascension, The

Performer Notes:

• This is an Enhanced disc, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
• Personnel: Glenn Branca, Lee Renaldo, Ned Sublette, David Rosenbloom (guitar); Jeffrey Glenn (bass); Stephan Wischerth (drums).
• Recorded at The Power Station, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Lee Ranaldo.
• In 1981, Glen Branca recorded a four-guitar symphony that reached peaks of transcendent beauty and lows of challenging shrillness. It was a work that in many ways changed the face of experimental music, and reintroduced clanging noise as a pop concept. The 2003 Acute Records reissue should only serve to hammer that point home. ASCENSION's five tracks are all odd and brilliant in their own way: "The Spectacular Commodity," for example, is 12 minutes long and almost operatic at points. "Lesson Number 2" is likewise orchestral in scope, and the title track is a sheer assault of guitars battling each other until the players reach an almost orgasmic frenzy. Branca, who had previously played with the Theoretical Girls and the Static, created the sound of New York City dying and being reborn in the process. A note for the historically minded: a young Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo appear here on guitars.

Professional Reviews: Uncut (6/03, p.137) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...Glenn Branca mated contemporary classical structure with ear-splitting noise-rock in a manner that served both camps equally well....Sheets of cascading guitars carefully negotiate the balance between chaos and control..."

The Wire (6/03, p.59) - "...It's precisely the music's unyielding quality and eye-level fury that marks THE ASCENSION out as something else entirely. Call it a Heavy Metal symphony, punk rock minimalism, avant drone, whatever you want. It's a beautiful noise..."

Mojo (Publisher) (7/03, p.122) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...It still sounds like nothing else, especially the title track, a guitar hurricane made up of monstrous, hitherto unimagined chords..."

Format: Vinyl (1 Disc)

Studio/Live: Studio

Guest Artist: Lee Ranaldo; Ned Sublette

Release Date: 24 November, 2014

Label: Superior Viaduct

• This is an Enhanced disc, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
• Personnel: Glenn Branca, Lee Renaldo, Ned Sublette, David Rosenbloom (guitar); Jeffrey Glenn (bass); Stephan Wischerth (drums).
• Recorded at The Power Station, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Lee Ranaldo.
• In 1981, Glen Branca recorded a four-guitar symphony that reached peaks of transcendent beauty and lows of challenging shrillness. It was a work that in many ways changed the face of experimental music, and reintroduced clanging noise as a pop concept. The 2003 Acute Records reissue should only serve to hammer that point home. ASCENSION's five tracks are all odd and brilliant in their own way: "The Spectacular Commodity," for example, is 12 minutes long and almost operatic at points. "Lesson Number 2" is likewise orchestral in scope, and the title track is a sheer assault of guitars battling each other until the players reach an almost orgasmic frenzy. Branca, who had previously played with the Theoretical Girls and the Static, created the sound of New York City dying and being reborn in the process. A note for the historically minded: a young Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo appear here on guitars.