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| Released | June 9, 2013 | |||
| Genre | Free Improvisation | |||
| Length | 50:06 | |||
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A Book of Hours is the tenth studio album by Bob Ostertag, self-released on June 9, 2013. [1]
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| Released | June 9, 2013 | |||
| Genre | Free Improvisation | |||
| Length | 50:06 | |||
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A Book of Hours is the tenth studio album by Bob Ostertag, self-released on June 9, 2013. [1]
All tracks are written by Bob Ostertag.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Tremble But Do Not Despair" | 14:28 |
| 2. | "The Poor Shall Eat All They Want" | 11:22 |
| 3. | "I Will Guide You With My Eye" | 17:09 |
| 4. | "So I Can Wake Up the Dawn" | 7:07 |
Adapted from the A Book of Hours liner notes. [2]
Musicians
Additional musicians
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
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| United States | 2013 | DL | ||
Robert "Bob" Ostertag is an experimental sound artist, political activist and writer based in San Francisco. He has written three books, collaborated with a number of musicians, and has released twelve solo albums.
Voice of America is a 1982 live collaborative album of improvised experimental music by Fred Frith, Bob Ostertag and Phil Minton. It was recorded live at PASS, New York City in January 1981, and the Actual Festival at the ICA, London in August 1981. The album was released on LP by Rift Records in 1982. RecRec Music reissued the album on CD in 1994.
Getting a Head is the debut solo album of live improvised music by experimental sound artist Bob Ostertag. It features Ostertag playing a homemade real-time sound sourcing system with Fred Frith on guitar and Charles K. Noyes on percussion. The album was released on LP by Rift Records in 1980. It was later released on CD by ReR Megacorp in 2000, and by Seeland Records in 2001. In a review of Ostertag's 2009 book, Creative Life: Music, Politics, People, and Machines, Chris Gehman described Getting a Head as "wonderfully strange and inexplicable".
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