‘Come Out’ is a piece commissioned as a form of collage for a benefit for the Harlem Six, a group of black youths who were arrested and beaten by police and prison guards and later wrongfully convicted for a murder in connection to the Little Fruit Stand Riot in 1964.
Given tapes by civil rights act...
[Sample: Daniel Hamm]
I had to, like, open the bruise up, and let some of the bruise blood come out to show them
[Looped sample]
Come out to show them
(sample is looped continuously)
Come Out was written by Steve Reich.
Come Out was produced by Steve Reich.
Steve Reich released Come Out on Sat Jan 01 1966.