Ilhan Mimaroglu - Tract: A Composition Of Agitprop Music For Electromagnetic Tape LP
$41.98
Label: We Are Busy Bodies
Release Date: November 21st, 2025
Created by Turkish musician and electronic music composer İlhan Mimaroglu, Tract is dedicated to fellow countryman Nȃzim Hikmet, whom Mimaroglu regarded “as the greatest poet of the revolutionary struggles.” Utilizing the voice of Turkish singer Tulay German (identified as Tuly Sand on this recording), Mimaroglu creates an audio collage of political messages in the propaganda style (agitprop) of the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution.
Although his text is based on “direct and paraphrased quotations” from Bakunin, Brecht, Mao, Marx, and others, it is not pro-Soviet but rather New Left, pro-freedom. The performance was composed and recorded over a two-year period (1972–1974) in Paris and New York. The liner notes contain Mimaroglu’s introduction to the work and explanation of the composition process, performance context, and dedication to Hikmet.
