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Originally Posted by Mat Sklansky
please explain the above clip to me.
It was a composition written for the Harlem Six, a case in which six black men were arrested for a murder and only one was responsible.
The sample was picked from tapes of interviews, where one of the innocent men was recalling how he'd had to demonstrate that he'd been beaten because the police were denying him medical attention - "I had to, like, open the bruise up, and let some of the bruise blood come out to show them". It showcases Reich's work with phasing techniques where a sample or melody is played together and moves in and out of sync.