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Classical Gas: Philip Glass's Super Session

Mark Dery, Record, January 1986

IF CLASSICAL music makes you think of some character in a periwig sawing away on a Stradivarius, then you've never heard Philip Glass' music. On his recent 3-record set, Satya-graha, for example, Glass utilizes 3M 32-track digital recording, click tracks, electric organs, and synthesizers.

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