terry riley c/d, s/d

i just got symphony in curved air on vinyl...wooooow this is gorgeous music

apreggio mania.

TR and Bruce Conner = fucking DREAM TEAM
http://vimeo.com/9500615

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=110211
On 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.

Got Les Yeux Fermes & Lifespan and they are both awesome.

kind of becoming convinced that EVERYTHING this guy has done is worth hearing.

this is awesome. thanks!

yeah, it really is nice -- i'm not too familiar with that period in riley's career.

That live thing has me really close to actually paying for music on the internet. Too bad I'm broke!

Got Les Yeux Fermes & Lifespan and they are both awesome.

So awesome! The soundtrack to bedtime for me for many months.

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

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll9vzv9lEb1qb66x7o1_500.gif

Really? BK?

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.

He's one of a kind!

he's the best. hope terry and big boi got crazy high together before going to BK.

XD

has this been posted? damnnnn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE2CEh66gTg&feature=player_embedded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub5kV34oJgY

still looking for a recording of sunday morning blues without drums, does anyone have an mp3 or whatever knocking about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN-MRK0K4A8

A Rainbow in Curved Air + Poppy Nogood = the unimpeachable shit. I just hit up the Rene Hell thread because I realized his stuff taps into this vein in a really deep way. The sub-bass in Poppy Nogood will rattle speakers.

add 'Persian Surgery Dervishes' and 'Shri Camel' and that's about right.

mentioned above, but harp of new albion can't be recommended enough. endlessly beautiful.

I'm all over it... The title is really mellifluous. And I'm a huge sucker for alternately tuned piano pieces.

No love for Lisbon Concert? I am kind of obsessed with it right now.

What other music is like Lisbon Concert?

http://www.amazon.com/Terry-Riley-Moscow-Conservatory-Concert/dp/B0006SWRCA
http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=2470 (room recording, tracks 1-3-4-7)

^^ those two the closest to Lisbon, i.e. solo piano in equal temperament

though nothing compares to the solo piano albums in just intonation -- The Harp Of New Albion is my favorite Riley

Thanks - any solo piano of this stripe recs would be great, don't have to be Rley

I love Lisbon Concert SO MUCH

yay

New one 'Aleph' is a 114 minute late night solo on the Korg Triton from 2008 in an alt tuning devised by Lou Harrison. He's been using the Triton for over a decade now because of the tuning control. The alt-tuning records are my favorite Riley by far, but I have occasionally been a little wary of the CDs he puts out with the Triton because some of the sample presets he uses are a little cheesy no matter what temperament they're in. 'Aleph' stays on one strings & muted-horn patch while he just spins out playing his patterns and it gets to work fairly instantaneously

about halfway through I almost started thinking it was too much but then I ended up playing disc 2 about four times in a row

Finally got that Wolfgang's Vault concert (the dadrockinest place to buy music), it's really good. Needs to be put on vinyl.

got "salome dances for peace".
the idea of the kronos quartet doin a bleedin string quartet, you or i might have reservations about, it not being DIY echo machine malarky n what have you.
but verily, tis GRAND!
the stamina ! the variety ! just intonation !
and where eyvind kang gets a good % of his "inspiration" from.

It's a Terry Riley Friday.

(For me.)

Finally hearing as much of Music for the Gift as Spotify will let me. Some of this sounds like it could have come out tomorrow.

I thought I had checked it out a bit actually, but I'm not remembering any of it, so I guess not.

Last weekend I drove out to Imperial County to go see Salvation Mountain. Two and a half hour drive. I saw a fox run across Highway 111. This is one of the albums I listened to on the way there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHv7M0o_OL8

really like unmellow riley. music for the gift & especially bird of paradise are pretty noise. love the mescaline mix too.

mentioned above, but harp of new albion can't be recommended enough. endlessly beautiful.

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this post is totally otm

It's a Terry Riley Friday.

just put a rainbow in curved air on the turntable

Wish I could set up my turntable to play that in reverse once it gets to the end. And back and forth over and over.

Buy a cd player

NO

This happened on Sunday and I missed it because SAM has the worst publicity for any city museum in history.

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

shouldn't this thread be called "terry riley In C/D, S/D"?

Jeez, I am amazed you of all ppl missed this; I cannot imagine how much this museum sucks and like tell ppl abt shit that's going on.

This Padova Concert is great. Also, Diamond Fiddle Language.

Alpha version of 'in c' ipad app by Matt Ingalls

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=OXUn0ZG758Y

Apparently today is the 50th anniversary of the premiere of In C.

nICe

Cool! Listening now to the Ars Nova version. Coincidentally, I bought The Cusp of Magic with Kronos Quartet and Wu Man the other day. It's cool, and was cheap.