'' Sing Me a Song of Songmy '' ( subtitled " A Fantasy For Electromagnetic Tape " ) is an album-length composition by avant-garde Turkish composer İlhan Mimaroğlu , released in 1971 . Principal performers include jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and Mimaroğlu himself . The piece includes a chorus , strings , recitations of poems by Fazil Husnu Daglarca and other texts , organists and tape-based musique concrète , as well as Hubbard 's jazz quintet : ( tenor saxophonist Junior Cook , pianist Kenny Barron , bassist Art Booth and drummer Louis Hayes ) . It was Hubbard 's third album released on the Atlantic label , and is one of his most experimental albums . “ Songmy ” in the title is a reference to “ Son My ” , a village in South Vietnam , the location of the mass murder , rape and mutilation of some 400 unarmed civilians by the US Army its Vietnam campaign in 1968 . The material on the album is heavily socio-political in tone , drawing on high-profile contemporary events like the Kent State shootings ; the Tate-Labianca murders ; the Vietnam war ; and the then escalating American protests against the war
Kent State shootings
Kent State shootings
Sing Me a Song of Songmy