Hydrogen Jukebox

Album by Philip Glass & Allen Ginsberg

Hydrogen Jukebox is a recording of Philip Glass’s chamber opera created with Allen Ginsberg, setting Ginsberg’s poetry for voices and chamber ensemble in a minimalist idiom. It explores themes of American life and politics, spirituality, sexuality and the Beat counterculture within contemporary classical and operatic contexts.
First released: 26th October 1993

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #1 from Iron Horse
    6:40
  2. 2.
    Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #2 Jahweh and Allah Battle
    3:40
  3. 3.
    Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #3 from Iron Horse
    2:54
  4. 4.
    Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #4 To P.O.
    3:42
  5. 5.
    Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #5 from Crossing Nation; Over Denver Again; Going to Chicago and To Poe: Over the Planet, Air Albany-Baltimore
    5:42
  6. 6.
    Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #6 from Wichta Vortex Sutra
    7:44
  7. 7.
    Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #7 from Howl, Part II
    5:56
  8. 8.
    Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #8 from Cabin in the Rockies
    4:22
  9. 9.
    Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #9 from Nagasaki Days (Numbers in Red Notebook)
    0:40
  10. 10.
    Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #10 Aunt Rose
    4:58
  11. 11.
    Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #11 from The Green Automobile
    5:59
  12. 12.
    Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #12 from N.S.A. Dope Calypso
    5:39
  13. 13.
    Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #13 from Nagasaki Days (Everybody’s Fantasy)
    5:07
  14. 14.
    Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #14 Ayers Rock/Uluru Song and “Throw Out the Yellow Journalists…”
    4:06
  15. 15.
    Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #15 Father Death Blues (from Don’t Grow Old)
    5:14

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