Title: Songs from Liquid Days Artist: Philip Glass Release Date: 1986 Label: CBS, Atlantic, CBS Masterworks, Columbia Duration: 39:49 Album Type(s): Avant-garde, lyrics/libretto UPCs: 074643956420, 074643956444, 5099708797225, 5099708974527 Genre: Classical Style: Minimalism Moods: Ambitious, Cerebral, Circular, Epic, Complex, Elegant, Restrained, Sophisticated, Uncompromising, Calm/Peaceful, Reserved Total Copies: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Changing Opinion
2. Lightning
3. Freezing
4. Liquid Days, Pt. 1
5. Open the Kingdom [Liquid Days, Part 2]
6. Forgetting

Year Type Label Catalog # 1990 CD Columbia 39564 1986 CD Atlantic MK39564 ------ CD CBS MK-39564 ------ CD CBS Masterworks 39564

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Songs From Liquid Days became Philip Glass' most popular and successful recording. The title holds the clue to the music's accessibility: These are songs, providing a more familiar and comfortable format for appreciating the world of minimalism than Glass' operas or instrumental pieces. Working with such lyrical collaborators as David Byrne and Suzanne Vega, he created art music which sounds radio friendly. There is also great variety displayed on this album. While the musical backing is unmistakably Philip Glass, the arrangements and vocal treatments range from the coolly subdued chamber music of "Freezing," featuring the Kronos Quartet and Linda Ronstadt, to the appropriately electrifying and almost new wave-ish "Lightning." The album's highlight, however, is the opener, a ten-minute opus called "Changing Opinion." With unusually oblique lyrics courtesy of Paul Simon, it condenses the odd excitement and drama of a minimalist opera into a single, creative burst of melody, rhythm, and momentum. The minimalist composers originally wanted to reconnect Western art music with a broad, popular audience. On that basis, Songs From Liquid Days may be their single greatest achievement. ~ Freddy Stidean, All Music Guide

Name Credits Alan Raph Trombone (Bass) Bernard Fowler Vocals Bill Kipper Engineer Carol Pool Violin Dan Dryden Engineer Don Christensen Engineer Douglas Perry Vocals Elliott Rosoff Violin Frederick Zlotkin Cello George Massenburg Engineer Jack Kripl Flute James Pugh Trombone Janice Pendarvis Vocals Jill Jaffe Viola Joe Anderer French Horn Joel Zimmerman Art Direction John Beal Bass Jon Gibson Sax (Soprano) Kurt Munkasci Producer Linda Quan Violin Linda Ronstadt Vocals, Vocals (Background) Marti Sweet Violin Michael Riesman Keyboards, Piano Paul Doktor Viola Paul Dunkel Flute Philip Glass Keyboards, Liner Notes, Main Performer Richard Peck Sax (Alto) Richard Sortomme Violin Robert Carlisle French Horn Robert Mapplethorpe Photography Sanford Allen Violin Sharon Rice Assistant Engineer Sol Greitzer Viola Stephen Burns Trumpet The Roches Vocals (Background), Vocals Wilmer Wise Trumpet