artwork [cover collage] Dawson Prater tracks 1, 2 libretto by [text] Ilhan Mimaroglu tracks 1, 2 performer [with the participation of the pop group] Topsy Turvy Moon reissue producer Dawson Prater remastered by Ernst Karel tracks 1, 2 vocals [singing and speaking] Tuly Sand tracks 1, 2 voice [auxiliary speaking voices of] Erdem Buri tracks 1, 2 voice [auxiliary speaking voices of] Ilhan Mimaroglu Copyright (c) Folkways Records & Service Corp. Copyright (c) Locust Music Phonographic Copyright (p) Locust Music Manufactured By Bellwether Manufacturing Glass Mastered At Disque Americ Pressed By Disque Americ Packaged in a white-tray jewel case with an 8-page booklet that includes credits, notes, and release information.
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.