| Seven Reasons for Tears | ||||
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| Released | 1989 | |||
| Recorded | December 6, 1987 | |||
| Studio | Music Box (New York City, NY) | |||
| Genre | Free improvisation | |||
| Length | 43:03 | |||
| Label | Purge/Sound League | |||
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Seven Reasons for Tears is a live performance album by Borbetomagus, released in 1989 by Purge/Sound League. [2]
Borbetomagus are a free jazz/noise rock group. They are cited by critics as pioneers of aggressive improvised noise music.
| Side one | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "1" | 8:38 |
| 2. | "2" | 3:58 |
| 3. | "3" | 5:00 |
| 4. | "4" | 5:18 |
| Side two | ||
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| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "5" | 4:40 |
| 2. | "6" | 5:33 |
| 3. | "7a" | 9:56 |
| 4. | "7b" | 1:00 |
Adapted from Seven Reasons for Tears liner notes. [3]
Don Dietrich is a saxophonist and founding member of New York City based improvisational group, Borbetomagus.  The saxophone is a woodwind instrument. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. Although most saxophones are made from brass, they are categorized as woodwind instruments, because sound is produced by an oscillating reed, traditionally made out of woody cane, rather than lips vibrating in a mouthpiece cup as with the brass instrument family. As with the other woodwind instruments, the pitch of the note being played is controlled by covering holes in the body tube to control the resonant frequency of the air column by changing the effective length of the tube.  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound. |
 Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording.  Cover art is a type of artwork presented as an illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product such as a book, magazine, newspaper (tabloid), comic book, video game, DVD, CD, videotape, or music album. The art has a primarily commercial function, for instance to promote the product it is displayed on, but can also have an aesthetic function, and may be artistically connected to the product, such as with art by the creator of the product. |
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
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| United States | 1989 | Purge/Sound League | LP | Purge 027 |
| 1993 | Agaric | CD | Ag 1993 |
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