GLENN BRANCA - The Ascension LP Modern Composition the two meetings seem to

the two meetings seem to raise three cellos in the search for expressive voice: the cello

Vocals multiply and fall back into themselves

alternating beautifully with her fingerpicked classical guitar

Simultaneously eerie and serene

As Knowles describes the end of her book

GLENN BRANCA - The Ascension LP Modern Composition the two meetings seem toBack in Print. Glenn Brancas first full length album The Ascension is a colossal achievement. After touring much of 1980 with an all star band featuring four guitarists (Branca, fellow composers Ned Sublette and David Rosenbloom, and future Sonic Youth member Lee Ranaldo) along with Jeffrey Glenn on bass and Stephan Wischerth on drums, Branca took his war torn group into a studio in Hells Kitchen to record five incendiary compositions. Originally