I hope Elision Fields will put out the Terry Riley/Don Cherry material. That's what I want to see from the archives.
― matinee, Monday, 12 May 2008 02:28 (sixteen years ago) link
oh man, "last camel in paris" is awesome. i don't actually have any other versions of shri camel, mind you, but the playing is insane. it's like harpsichord speed metal right in yr BRRRAAIN.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 5 June 2008 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
and track 10, the weird modulating low tones it starts off with are just insane.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 5 June 2008 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2007/01/yamaha-yc45d.html -- modified for microtonal intervals
if you like 'last camel in paris' then don't wait too long to pick up 'shri camel'. 'last camel' being a live album, you can concentrate on the virtuosity, but just imagine him multitracking those arpeggios into so many layers that you stop keeping track and just surrender
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 June 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
. . .
LIVE AT KOLN WITH DON CHERRY BOOTLEG
i love music
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
do go on.
― beta blog, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
so pretty
― Surmounter, Monday, 20 October 2008 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link
http://kicktokill.blogspot.com/2008/10/bruce-connorterry-riley-looking-for.html
― eman, Sunday, 2 November 2008 02:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I played "In C" by Terry Riley, and I liked it...
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 November 2008 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link
He doesn't get anything like the credit he deserves
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 November 2008 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I love "In C," but it's all I've heard. I suppose Curved Air, Koln & In Night Flight are where I should look next?
― BIG HOOS is those british white steens (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 27 November 2008 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
"He doesn't get anything like the credit he deserves"
On the contrary, he gets just the right amount. Minimalism is very much accepted, "In C" as in the 'canon' as contemporary classical music is likely to get but by not engaging too much with classical institutions (unlike Reich or Glass) to create, say, operatic works, he has maintained a degree of credibility.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 27 November 2008 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Which of the dozen "In C"'s?
Huge PLUS with Amazon: there are a few "In C"'s you can buy for 99 cents each..an entire 40+ minute file.
― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Thursday, 27 November 2008 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I was listening to Poppy No Good this morning and my sister made snide remarks.
― ian, Thursday, 27 November 2008 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
When I picked this up, I'd assumed T.Riley was some sort of electronic forebear, due to what had been said about him. (Also, a jocular remark by Andy Partridge on one of those SFX tapes many years ago)...
When it started, I thought of Metal Machine Music, and wondered if that Zeitkracker version was anything like this.
Then I got into it (man), and had a relaxing morning.
Funny how side one ends, like the bloke doing the mastering just stopped the tape with his finger, and started the mastering of side 2 by releasing the tape himself.
― Mark G, Friday, 28 November 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
He was an electronic forebear. A minimalist pioneer. A sampling pioneer. Many other things as well.
― dan selzer, Friday, 28 November 2008 15:59 (fifteen years ago) link
In C is to me one of his least intersting works. Poppy Nogood / All Night Flight is da bomb tho
― baaderonixx, Friday, 28 November 2008 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
In C feels more like an exercise than something worth listening to.
― wind and wtfering (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 28 November 2008 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Rainbow in Curved Air, Happy Endings, Shri Camel=awesome.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 28 November 2008 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
don't listen to the In C haters, it's wonderful. The '68 one is the least "out" really but it's probably the best place to start.
― J0hn D., Friday, 28 November 2008 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks.
― Mark G, Friday, 28 November 2008 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't found any TR that I didn't want to listen to though. I don't even mind his singing (10 voices of the 2 prophets).
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 28 November 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Music From The Gift has been bossing my room lately, all those tape manipulations are my new favourite thing, I'm surprised I hadn't heard of them before. "Come Out" is close to my heart, but these are completely different. Going to borrow some James Tenney stuff see what thats like.
― ogmor, Friday, 28 November 2008 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I think by now I've come back to the Harp of New Albion more than any other TR recording. There's just so much there to listen to, and it's all so beautiful.
― ian, Sunday, 24 May 2009 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
descending moonshine dervishes <3
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Saturday, 6 June 2009 01:46 (fourteen years ago) link
He's doing a European tour this autumn with Talvin Singh. Sounds intriguing, I'll be checking this out.
― margana (anagram), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Good news, the lifem looks good in general, too
― mmmm, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
he is playing with john zorn in SF soon (during zorn's week-long residency at yoshi's)
― hobbes, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
wwowowowowow
― 69, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Terry Riley played at my school's graduation a couple of years ago
― Tolaca Luke (admrl), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
terry was wonderful tonight being interviewed for resonance fm @ cafe oto. the place was packed out which was nice. can't wait to see him play on wednesday.
also heard a version of la monte's sunday morning blues without angus maclise and well, i need it.
um... Y$1... anyone?
― Crackle Box, Monday, 1 November 2010 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
i just got symphony in curved air on vinyl...wooooow this is gorgeous music
apreggio mania.
― there was usic in the cafes at night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 20 November 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
TR and Bruce Conner = fucking DREAM TEAMhttp://vimeo.com/9500615
― a verbatim quote from AdamRL! (admrl), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
eeyowch, pretty rad 1983 concert up on wolfgang's vault here: http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/terry-riley/concerts/great-american-music-hall-april-23-1983.html?utm_source=NL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=110211On this 1983 performance of "Song from the Old County" at the Great American Music Hall, Riley shows the influence of the Hindustani singer and teacher Prandit Pran Nath, whom he first studied with in India in 1970, and collaborated with through the '70s. Incorporating Hindustani vocals and the sitar and tabla work of Krishna Bhatt into the mix, Riley affects a mesmerizing, meditative vibe with this marathon minimalist work. Bassist Brian Crittenden, also a disciple of Prandit Pran Nath, and saxophonist George Brooks, a leading American voice in Indo-jazz fusion (currently with his quartet Summit and with the Raga Bop Trio), add to the mind-altering proceedings here.
Essentially divided into two parts, "Song of the Old Country" is a monumental work that dates back to 1978. Riley handles the keyboards while also singing the cryptic lyrics on the trance-like first raga, which develops gradually and remains in a zen-like state over the course of 43 minutes. Part II begins in more kinetic, uptempo fashion with Riley creating interlocking, pulsating patterns on his arsenal of keyboards and delays. Bhatt follows suit by delving into some exhilarating passages on sitar, as Brooks soars over the top on soprano sax and Crittenden bows his bass underneath. This feeling of runaway train intensity comes to a sudden climax after seven minutes.
― tylerw, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Got Les Yeux Fermes & Lifespan and they are both awesome.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
kind of becoming convinced that EVERYTHING this guy has done is worth hearing.
― tylerw, Monday, 14 February 2011 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
this is awesome. thanks!
― ouroboros shoal (diamonddave85), Monday, 14 February 2011 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, it really is nice -- i'm not too familiar with that period in riley's career.
― tylerw, Monday, 14 February 2011 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
That live thing has me really close to actually paying for music on the internet. Too bad I'm broke!
So awesome! The soundtrack to bedtime for me for many months.
― stately wang manner (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 08:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Have I told everyone that I've seen him perform TWICE live, both times in the back of a small piano store in NYC? First time was a performance for just-intonation tuned piano on a bill with Michael Harrison, who's store is where this was at. Second time was a tribute to Prandit Pran Nath which was all vocals from Riley and Harrison. I stood in front of Philip Glass on line and La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela were also there.
Their were maybe 50 people at each of these concerts. I don't remember how I was lucky enough to find out about these or how I got in!
http://www.faustharrisonpianos.com
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll9vzv9lEb1qb66x7o1_500.gif
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Monday, 16 May 2011 12:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Really? BK?
― Trip Maker, Monday, 16 May 2011 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i saw that pic on the "unlikely celebrities together" thread and had to look up who Terry Riley was."A Rainbow in Curved Air" is blowing me away right now (esp the second half).
i feel like if i listen to it loud enough i might levitate.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 19 May 2011 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
He's one of a kind!
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 19 May 2011 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
he's the best. hope terry and big boi got crazy high together before going to BK.
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 May 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
XD
― am0n, Thursday, 19 May 2011 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
has this been posted? damnnnnhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE2CEh66gTg&feature=player_embedded
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 May 2011 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub5kV34oJgY
― am0n, Thursday, 19 May 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
still looking for a recording of sunday morning blues without drums, does anyone have an mp3 or whatever knocking about?
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 19 May 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN-MRK0K4A8
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link