Terry Riley - Your No Good (from Your No Good/Poppy No Good 1967/2004)An important and rather slept on piece of music thats essential for fans of edits. A crate digger classic Latin Soul record, or rather two of them slowly distancing themselves from one another creating primitive tape echo that eventually falls in on itself. The drifting away Harvey Avern Dozen bands are born Siamese twins i...
Hey everybody! I'm on vacation here in Hell A and I thought i'd celebrate the end of JSGuntzel's "Month of the Phonograph Record" by talking about the records I got a few days ago. My uncle's neighbor moved up to Portland and gave him all her vinyl and my brother and I were given free reign to take whatever we wanted. Free vinyl = happy Kate! Here is some of what I scored:Terry Riley: Shri C...
Hey everybody! I'm on vacation here in Hell A and I thought i'd celebrate the end of JSGuntzel's "Month of the Phonograph Record" by talking about the records I got a few days ago. My uncle's neighbor moved up to Portland and gave him all her vinyl and my brother and I were given free reign to take whatever we wanted. Free vinyl = happy Kate! Here is some of what I scored:Terry Riley: Shri C...
More than 40 years after releasing In C, Terry Riley is still trying to strip music down to its purest essence, he tells Michael DervanTerry Riley's In C is the first classic of minimalism in music. It was premiered in 1964 when the composer was 29. Alfred Frankenstein reported in the San Francisco Chronicle that the composer had "developed a style like that of no one else on earth, and he is b...
About organ loops and creation as failed imitation (cf. "Et Lulu, danseuse nue", les Garçons Joufflus)... Terry Riley : A Rainbow In Curved Air (Excerpt)