Dutch composer Louis Andriessen turned minimalism upside-down in the 1970s with his radical musical responses to American experimentalists Reich, Riley, and Glass. He challenged these composers’ trance-like states with a European edginess and angularity, and the results are exciting and overpoweringly aggressive. The Bang on a Can All-Stars have worked closely with Andriessen since the first Bang on a Can Marathon in 1987, and these definitive performances are the result of their 15 years of intense dedication and extreme musicality.

Worker's Union
Bang on a Can All-Stars
Robert Black - bass
David Cossin - vibraphone
Lisa Moore - piano
Mark Stewart - electric guitar
Wendy Sutter - cello
Evan Ziporyn - bass clarinet

Worker's Union was originally recorded by WNYC for live broadcast on New Sounds Live on May 2, 2002 at the Miller Theatre, New York.

Broadcast Producer: John Schaefer
Recording Engineers: Edward Haber, Scott Strickland, Irene Trudel, George Wellington
Live Sound Engineer: Jody Elff
Mix Produced by Evan Ziporyn
Mixed by Joel Gordon at chez Joel, Lexington, Massachusetts, on August 27, 2002.

Hoketus
Katherine Pendry, James Poke - panpipes
Evan Ziporyn, Richard Craig - alto saxophone
Steven Schick, Amy Knoles - congas
Lisa Moore, Damian leGassick - fender rhodes
Cees van Zeeland, Gerard Bouwhuis - pianos
Robert Black, Mark Stewart - bass guitars

Hout
Lisa Moore - piano
Steven Schick - marimba
Mark Stewart - electric guitar
Evan Ziporyn - tenor saxophone

Hoketus and Hout were originally issued on Industry (Sony SK 66483).
Producer: Grace Row
Executive Producer: Martyn Harry
Recording Engineer: Richard King
Remote Technical Supervisor: Tim Wood
Tape Editor: Ellen Fitton
Assistant Engineer: Bernard O'Reilly
Recorded at Air Recording Studios, Lyndhurst Hall, Hampstead, London, June 29-July 3, 1994.

Mastered by Charles Harbutt at Sony Music Studios, NYC, on October 25, 2002.

Workers Union, Hoketus, and Hout are published by Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. (ASCAP).

The original recordings of Hoketus and Hout were made possible, in part, with public funding from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Art direction and design by Greenberg Kingsley/NYC

Cantaloupe Music
Executive Producers: Michael Gordon, David Lang, Kenny Savelson, and Julia Wolfe
Label Manager: Ken Thomson
Retail Manager: Franz Nicolay
Publicity: Aleba Gartner Associates, NYC

Cantaloupe thanks:
WNYC, John Schaefer and the New Sounds Live crew (with special thanks to Ed Haber), Joel Gordon, Mark Kingsley, Carla Leighton, Adam Wolfensohn, Bang on a Can, Julia Fishkin, Philippa Thompson, and Kelly Buwalda.

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