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Alan Sondheim / Ritual All 770
The Songs

Album US 2005 on Fire Museum Records label
Jazz (Experimental, Free Improvisation)

Recorded in March 1967, Providence, R.I. Originally released on LP by Riverboat Records. This CD was mastered using the best available vinyl source. "This work is a single improvised performance in which one of the performers sings "Oratorio On The End Of Illusions", although, in my libretto the words were originally "Oratorio On The End Of Visions". A libretto of eight pages was prepared. The vocalists were not told how to sing it. They could go backward or repeat any section if they wanted to. There was no score. The only instruction given to the instrumentalists was this: no playing behind the koto or classical guitar. I had several rehearsals with each of them, mostly individually. The session lasted through two takes, this is the second. After the master was made, I added reverberation and volume controlling; other than that, all of the music heard here is from the live performance."

Musicians

	Alan Sondheim , electric guitar, violin, flute, suling, xylophone, alto saxophone, classical guitar, clarinet, shenai, mandolin, koto, cor anglais, sitar, liner notes, flute, bansari, percussion, chimta, recorder, sopranino, guitar, hawaiian, oboe, so-na, recorder, bass, recorded by, album by
	Ritual All 770 , album by
	Chris Mattheson b, bass
	Joel Zabor dr, syn, drums, jazz
	Barry Sugarman tab, bgo, perc, tabla, dholak, percussion, naquerra
	Robert Poholek tr, cor, trumpet, cornet
	June Fellows vocals
	Ruth Ann Hutchinson voc, vocals

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