Philip Glass feat. Yo-Yo Ma - Naqoyqatsi: Life As War

 

180-gram vinyl

Deluxe gatefold jacket with softtouch finish

Includes 8-page booklet

Music to the third and final flim in the Qatsi trilogy

Limited edition of 500 numbered copies on translucent colored vinyl

Naqoyqatsi is the third and final film in the Qatsi trilogy, meaning "life as war." About 80 percent of Naqoyqatsi uses archive footage and stock images manipulated and processed digitally on non-linear editing (workstations and intercut with specially produced computer-generated imagery to demonstrate society's transition from a natural environment to a technology-based one.

Just like its predecessors Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi, the music was composed by Philip Glass. Performed by members of the Philip Glass Ensemble, and featuring the amazing Yo-Yo Ma on cello, this completes the lengthy score which was begun for this film series with Koyaanisqatsi in 1982. The music is more in the traditional orchestral tradition than much of Glass's work as a familiar doorway to images so disconnected from the familiar world. One instrument, the cello, plays through much of the piece. Some unconventional instruments are used in addition to traditional ones, including a didgeridoo and an electronically created jaw harp.

Naqoyqatsi is available here as a limited edition of 500 numbered copies on translucent red colored vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve and contains an 8-page booklet.

 

Side A

1. Naqoyqatsi

2. Primacy Of Number

Side B

1. Massman

2. New World

3. Religion

Side C

1. Media Weather

2. Old World

3. Intensive Time

Side D

1. Point Blank

2. The Vivid Unknown

3. Definition

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