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Turkish-born musician and composer Ilhan Mimaroglu worked extensively with electronic (tape) music. The two programmatic pieces paired here are InchTo Kill a Sunrise,Inch a dirge subtitled InchRequiem for Those Shot in the BackInch with words borrowed from a poem by Guatemalan guerilla poet Marco Antonio Flores, and InchLa Ruche,Inch an experiment of reminiscences titled after the famous building in Paris that housed Picasso, Apollinaire and others. Album Tracks 1. To Kill a Sunrise A Requiem for Those Shot in the Back - a Composition of Agitprop Music for Electromagnetic Tape 2. La Ruche - An Elegy for Electromagnetic Tape
