Philip Glass - Glassworks

Format: 180 gram audiophile vinyl LP
Cat: MOVCL008
Barcode: 8718469535149
Release Date: 07 Aug 2026
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

180 gram audiophile vinyl
Widely considered a landmark minimalist masterpiece
Glassworks is one of Glass’s most accessible and influential albums
Black vinyl

Philip Glass is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. His work has been dubbed “minimal music”. Glass himself prefers to describe himself as a composer of “music with repetitive structures”.

Glassworks is the most pleasant craftwork ever from the great minimalist exploiter.

Six warm pieces in a successful attempt to create a more pop-oriented work. The Philip Glass ensemble performs with an amiably soft-edged minimalist sound, in an almost new-age vein. Glass anticipated resistance toward the funding of his more expensive projects, so he created a more accessible, and marketable recording.

And with success. More then 200K albums were sold in five years.

The tracks "Rubric" and "Façades" both appeared in the 2008 documentary about Philippe Petit, Man on Wire. "Floe" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1989 Italian horror film The Church. "Opening" was featured in the American remake of the movie Breathless.

Side A
1. Opening
2. Floe
3. Islands
Side B
1. Rubric
2. Facades
3. Closing