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Sing Me a Song of Songmy (subtitled A Fantasy For Electromagnetic Tape) is a moving anti-war statement by Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and Turkish musician ?lhan Mimaro?lu, released in 1971.

It was Hubbards third album released on the Atlantic label and features performances by Hubbard, tenor saxophonist Junior Cook, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Art Booth and drummer Louis Hayes. The album also features a chorus, strings, recitations of poems by Fazil Husnu Daglarca and other texts, organists and tape-based musique concrète. It is one of Hubbards most experimental albums, boasting a variety of processed sounds emanating from tapes.

?lhan Mimaro?lu was a musician and electronic music composer. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, and moved to the United States working as a producer for Atlantic Records, where he created his own record label, Finnadar Records, in 1971. He also was the producer for Charles Mingus Changes One [MOVLP701j and Changes Two [MOVLP856j, as well as Federico Fellinis Satyricon.