terry riley c/d, s/d

should be able to make it.

"reed streams" is pretty nice as you get to hear some early examples of his delay/'time lag accumulator' based work, plus l'infonie doing their version of "in c."

"persian surgery dervishes" is four sides of organ+megadelay floating goodness. "rainbow in curved air" (and this soundtrack he did i can never remember the name of) is similar but more layered and with more instruments in the mix. "shri camel" plows the same row, but centers on synth.

"olson III" is kind of "in c" for dummies - simple orchestral repetition and variation, supposedly a big influence on the parson sound/trad gras och stenar/int'l harvester axis in sweden.

i've never been a big fan of "in c," truth be told - it could be argued that his 'dervish' style probably isn't regarded as seriously but it's great to listen to very early in the morning.

oh yeah I heard that and enjoyed it, actually, even though it doesn't sound that exciting but it must have been quite a revelation at the time.

I have to listen to Church of Anthrax again; it's been a while. I met Riley once in NYC and asked him what he thought about that one, and he simply laughed (either sugggesting it was a younger, more 'naive' period in his career or that it was a hellish experience).

Puts on a terrific live show, total virtuoso on piano. I had a friend when I lived in Seattle and he told me about attending one of Riley's all-night drone concerts (I think it was sometime back in the 70s or early 80s), and everyone brought sleeping bags, etc., and drifted off to sleep in the hallway under the loops.

well, at the back pages of a magazine called THE WIRE you have a gig guide.

but anyway, now you know abt that terry riley gig so I look forward to seeing you there dada.

I saw him live once and it was good overall, except I didn't like his singing Indian classical style in English.

i love Music for the Gift (thanks Gaz, i went out and bought that after your last recomendation)

i really like You're NoGood but i only have an mp3 of it. never sucked it up and spent the 30$ of it.

i kinda like Poppy No Good. Shri Camel is very similar in sound to this and therefore i like it about the same

i think In C is a great idea, but the one version i've heard didn't do it for me. too plinky plunky

i'd love to know on which albums he sings. it's always sounded interesting to me.

what's the deal with Gavin Bryars? should i read the archives? and does Tom Waits detract from the album he's on (the only one i ever see)

The other albums I love the most are 'rainbow in curved air', 'persian surgery dervishes', decending moonshine dervishes', 'shri camel'.

I've never gotten too into the stuff with kronos myself but I can see why they're popular. His 'foresight' piece for rova is good.

If you're interested in terry's modal singing, he sings on 'ten songs of the two prophets', scored for a duo of just-intoned prophet 5's. I really grew to love this record, particularly the last track.

Of the recent Cortical reissue series, 'reed streams' I've listened to quite a bit. The others are interesting documents if you have the money, like 'You're Nogood'.

There's a piece called 'night music' for solo piano which he keeps playing in concert. The long wait for a recording of this has been painful to me.

absolutely otm.

whatchootalkin'bout new stuff, rockist?

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=6869522&style=music&cart=267063743

Four Winds (but I see there is a discrepancy in the dates):

http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?userid=M07GGZcBgb&EAN=5425008374017&ITM=18

From Forced Exposure:

"On this CD, the European avant-garde meets American minimalism; an 18th-century double bass teams up with a 21st-century synthesizer; jazz and Indian raga and extended techniques are inextricably linked. Recorded over a period of a year and a half in three separate locations around the globe, this album highlights two musician-composers and distills their concertizing, touring, and refining the intricacies of their collaboration. Terry Riley and Stefano Scodanibbio have mastered their instruments to the point of transcending them, so that it would be simplistic to define their work together as duets for contrabass and keyboards. Each of them coaxes such a complex range of timbres and hues and textures from their instruments that it's hard to believe such a variety of sounds is created by only two men. Much connects Terry Riley and Stefano Scodanibbio: both are equally comfortable with improvisation and classical notated music; both enjoy the exploration of tuning systems, harmonics, and the world of overtones, and use them to create new worlds of sounds. Together they take us beyond our perceptions of instrumental boundaries." Recorded 1998-2000, Riley sings the words of Pandi Pran Nath on one track.

I love Riley so much. My favorites are still 'Harp of New Albion' and the others mentioned above, but I finally got that first Cortical CD with 'Bird of Paradise' and 'Mescalin Mix' and... my god. That is some advanced, crazy tapework, the way the line between live musicians and loops blurs back and forth... Riley was right to be miffed at Reich for stealing the loop idea, Riley was already phasing away.

Also: 'Atlantis Nath' has a regular price now. It's all over the place and starts off with some goofy keyboard sounds, but the opening multitracked voice drone kills, there's a fantastic 15 minute piano solo in the middle, the ending is extended bliss and the rest grows on you

noize ysi pls.

riley did a fair amount of noise, there's also 1961's 'two sounds' with la monte young; riley scraping a metal can in circles against a window and young dragging a chair along the floor for thirty minutes... the sound of it puts the kids to shame

yeah, there are stories of young performances that were earth-shatteringly loud - people having to leave, and so forth

its raining at the world series.

Definitely.

is youre no good great?

Yes but IIRC the CD is kind of expensive for just that one track. It seems like a good candidate for downloading.

I like his works in 'just intonation' (basically & non technically modern instruments are all slightly out of tune - just intonation is pure natural tuning & sounds lovely);

Shri Camel got me into Terry & is awesome

The harp of new Albion is wonderful - a double album of retuned piano - a much more considered/mature album - the padova concert is a good live album of some of the material - No where near as immediate as some but I really love these more as I get older

The 10 voices is raga like & good although the synth sounds a littele cheesy & decending Moonshine dervs is like a more static greyer shri camel - still good with it's own strange atmosphere

'foresight' - In the right mood I enjoy this - not typical terry fare

'Atlantis nath' (i have signed!) - a good mix of stuff jazzy piano, beautiful raga vocals - odd stuff

Lazy/day/crocdiles is on my list to buy

after that come scored pieces for other instrumental ensembles, some good some not as successful (avoid anything with george brooks), but my favorite of the recent stuff is still the keyboard works: atlantis nath and moscow conservatory.

a friend of mine is going through his library of live tapes from the 70's -- more dervishes-era archival releases ahead.

I also really like Poppy (just fell asleep to it the other night) and Rainbow In Curved Air. Some real peak experience analog keyboard stuff there.

I was not impressed by Music For The Gift, but hey, it's early work.

I have never heard Shri Camel cause the one time I tried to buy it I got the lame record store cliche of "oh, that's not for sale"...

it's not for smoothed out stare-at-sun listening like Riley's later trance stuff but as a slice of history it's a straight-up revelation

Missed a performance of Rainbow in Curved Air last week because I thought I didn't need to pre-book. I was wrong. So gutted.

Everyone loves Terry, don't they? I mean, why wouldn't you?

He seems like a pretty cool guy. I didn't know he was involved with Daevid Allen way back in the early 60s; great interview.

I knew about the Daevid Allen connection because Allen always credits Terry Riley with turning him onto tape loops and manipulation. Didn't know about Edgar Froese, I thought Peter Michael Hamel was his main Krautrock connection.

skipping my office holiday party on Friday to see this dude

I think your priorities are absolutely in order. Do you know what he's going to be doing? A specific piece, I mean.

I don't. All I know is that he's going to be performing with his son - so I guess Terry piano and Gyan guitar. Also, "bring a pillow" :)

https://bkragamassive.bandcamp.com/album/terry-riley-in-c-2

awesome

Terry Riley himself, after listening to an early performance recording, suggested they “use the basic In C form but open it up to solos...based on some of the patterns.”

unbelievably great mid-70s Riley soundtrack for Bruce Conner's Crossroads (never released aside from a bootleg cassette a few years back): https://we.tl/wDk6EwXhUq

Phew, thought we had another RIP on our hands there. I'll be downloading this later, no worries on that score.

thanks man!

Thanks. Good to have another work from this particular phase/sound.

Saving me from listening to more 2017 music I'm probably not going to like.

this is fantastic, thanks tyler! and OTM _Rudipherous_

good work tyler, thanx.

thx for the RIP... to mp3

?

Phew, thought we had another RIP on our hands there.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Friday, 2 February 2018

terry riley will never die; he will just vibrate into eternity

Wow, thanks, tyler! Just downloaded.

i was just talking about that film and score on one of the Twin Peaks The Return threads, after episode 8 showed. Crossroads was playing on a loop at an exhibit I went to last year and I found it exhilarating. Found a Riley studio album that was similar but am super psyched to get the actual score.

oh haha, am0n — gotcha. i was half asleep last friday.
you can watch an excerpt from crossroads over here: https://www.vogue.com/article/bruce-conner-restored-crossroads-film

The Crossroads I'm familiar with involved a guitar shred duel between Ralph Macchio and Steve Vai. I'm assuming this is a different one but perhaps I should try soundtracking those images with this recording.

hey london sorts, this should be a decent performance of 'in c' next month (tickets = £5)

https://www.multi-story.org.uk/events/2018/5/10/terry-riley-in-c-living-programme-notes

Sweet.

Not to forget the man himself:

https://ovalspace.co.uk/events/view/terry-riley/

i've been listening to les yeux fermes and lifespan a lot, they are wonderful

ok good, not dead yet, phew

alive and kicking...it with Geeta who just posted a picture of the two of them to instagram or facebook or somewhere.

I like Lifespan a lot

Haven't done any comparative listening yet, but enjoying most of this performance (maybe some treading water at times, but they don't get stuck):

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2803949314_16.jpg

https://bkragamassive.bandcamp.com/album/terry-riley-in-c-2

i think my favorite riley piece of the ones i've been listening to a lot this summer is this performance of poppy nogood and the phantom band at suny buffalo in 1968. it is tense and haunting

https://assets.boomkat.com/spree/products/232000/large/original.jpg

oh and i just saw this now https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-terry-riley

us tour with kronos quartet in spring 2020? saw a date posted locally, can't find the tour listed anywhere though. kronos quartet is fairly hit or miss with me but riley was amazing when i saw him at big ears

ooooooh! that is good news

Listening to "Happy Ending" and right at the death this jazzy piano part kicks in and it is so out of character and awesome

love that bit

i did a short mix with that track on it https://theporouscity.com/entries/2175

sweet!

okay i guess calling a 20 minute terry riley piece a "track" is a bit lol

Fucking ... fuck.

Terry Riley raga class in Kamakura
June 25 & 26

Infohttps://t.co/QK9jTMS8Rthttps://t.co/jCMAQBHaZb#terryriley #テリーライリー #宮本沙羅 #saramiyamoto #ラーガ #パラダイスアレイ #今此処商店 #rootculture #kiranaeast #panditprannath #インド音楽 pic.twitter.com/mwh0HTJFqn

— Terry Riley（lives in Japan since Feb. 2020） (@nimconpoopoo) June 7, 2022

フジロック
ピラミッドガーデン
こんな感じですhttps://t.co/gnUguw6K7s
朝の開放感
夜中のキャンドル
勿論2回とも即興
つまり 違う演奏

テリー・ライリー
w/
宮本沙羅

SAT morning 10:00
&
SUN night 23:40#terryriley #テリーライリー #宮本沙羅 #saramiyamoto #fujirock #pyramidgarden pic.twitter.com/WxYxK78g52

— Terry Riley (Official) (@nimconpoopoo) July 1, 2022

yall know about his youtube channel right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWoFcYI64hA

Today, At Joe Hisaishi’s studio
本日、久石譲さんのスタジオにて#terryriley #テリーライリー #久石譲 #joehisaishi pic.twitter.com/fg17vk9rXt

— Terry Riley / テリー・ライリー (@nimconpoopoo) September 27, 2022

Enjoyed the Maya Beiser cello-led version of In C that turned up in the NPR 2024 EOY list; hadn't realised it turned sixty this year! This NPR piece links to Acid Mothers Temple & Adrian Utley's versions, among others, but not Bitchin Bajas:

https://soundcloud.com/sweetblahg/bitchin-bajas-in-c-872016-constellation

man every time this thread gets bumped I am anxious

much love to the rich cosmos that is TR

wow at the picture in that article! Have definitely never seen him looking so square

how much would you tip Terry Riley if he was playing in a saloon you happened to visit (keep in mind it's 1961)

At 89, Riley still composes every day, with a view of Mount Fuji from his home in Japan.
People who have figured out how to live

So true.