robert ashley - yellow man with heart with wings

yellow man with heart with wings was composed in 1978 by Robert Ashley. 
it's a two part composition with narration. this one is never mentioned but is 
actually one of his best and most accessible release. it has the same kind of mild 
background instrumentation than "automatic writing" but with a fantastic synthesizer 
general sound. "part one is a narration by Guillermo Grenier in dreamy, flatly 
inflected spanish, backed by a four-note synthesizer track, and punctuated by 
mysterious, heavily processed vocalizations. in part two, the four-note synthesizer 
line returns, this time backing an ethereal, sustained chord, and the heavily altered 
english vocals sound 'like a distant rendering of the earth's electromagnetic halo'."

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