― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 22 June 2003 23:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 23 June 2003 00:26 (twenty years ago) link
I saw him live once and it was good overall, except I didn't like his singing Indian classical style in English.
― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 23 June 2003 00:28 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― JasonD (JasonD), Monday, 23 June 2003 05:31 (twenty years ago) link
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)
― JasonD (JasonD), Monday, 23 June 2003 05:35 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― jl, Monday, 23 June 2003 06:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 23 June 2003 08:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 23 June 2003 12:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
absolutely otm.
whatchootalkin'bout new stuff, rockist?
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
noize ysi pls.
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah, there are stories of young performances that were earth-shatteringly loud - people having to leave, and so forth
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lukas (lukas), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link
its raining at the world series.
― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Monday, 24 October 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― francisdashwood, Monday, 24 April 2006 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link
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"...
― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 01:46 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link
http://image.blingee.com/images11/content/output/2007/6/16/206048448_d3666224.gif
― sanskrit, Sunday, 17 June 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
what else (by terry or anyone else) is like "you're no good"?
― admrl, Thursday, 8 May 2008 11:11 (sixteen years ago) link
should pay $10 to see a performance of in c tomorrow?
― am0n, Thursday, 8 May 2008 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
xp: Music for the Gift finds Riley cutting/looping Chet Baker, but it's Jazz, not R&B. Maybe the closest thing would be some far-out Ron Hardy edit??? Or Reich's Come Out?
― sexyDancer, Thursday, 8 May 2008 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
As good a place as any to mention that Wounded Bird are putting out Church of Anthrax on CD soon.
― Telephone thing, Thursday, 8 May 2008 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
adam: for pop music turned into trancey minimalism, you want to check out Carl Stone. especially his new album 'Al Noor': http://www.sequenza21.com/cdreviews/?p=242 -- the track 'L'Os à Moelle' is a 24 minute beast based on a short garagey 60's loop that sounds like the Byrds, and then he isolates the jangley guitars and uses them to modulate korean folk & classical chord sequences, it is kind of amazing
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5142iyMpLjL._SS500_.jpg
if you've already listened to Shri Camel so many times you've worn it out, this is a good performance. it is live, not 16-channel multitrack layered, but it's the same yamaha microtonal organ sound and the packaging is beautiful
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 8 May 2008 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Agreed, the packaging on the Elision Fields stuff is simple but lovely. I just got the above mentioned 'The Last Camel In Paris' at the weekend and enjoyed it on its inaugural spin.
― krakow, Thursday, 8 May 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
seconding the stone al-noor recommendation. it's such a fun album. i also like that stone won't say even who the obvious samples are, like aqua, saying "just listen and figure it out." that psych sample used in 'L'Os à Moelle' is on the tip of my tongue but i can't quite figure it out. that's part of what's so brilliant about it, just as it starts to get familiar it pushes in a different direction.
― matinee, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
-- admrl, Thursday, 8 May 2008 11:11 (12 hours ago) Link
i'm glad for this revive - tracked "you're nogood" down after reading phil's invisible jukebox w/carl craig in the new wire, & have been listening obsessively.
― etc, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
the bonus disc on "you're no good" is killer too. i like it better than all night flight and maybe even reed streams.
― matinee, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:19 (sixteen years ago) link
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" :)
― the most painstaking, humorless people in the world (lukas), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 06:06 (nine years ago) link
https://bkragamassive.bandcamp.com/album/terry-riley-in-c-2
― j., Thursday, 16 November 2017 06:04 (six years ago) link
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.”
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link
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
― tylerw, Friday, 2 February 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
Phew, thought we had another RIP on our hands there. I'll be downloading this later, no worries on that score.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Friday, 2 February 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
thanks man!
― sleeve, Friday, 2 February 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
Thanks. Good to have another work from this particular phase/sound.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 2 February 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
Saving me from listening to more 2017 music I'm probably not going to like.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 2 February 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
this is fantastic, thanks tyler! and OTM _Rudipherous_
― nerve_pylon, Friday, 2 February 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
good work tyler, thanx.
― calzino, Friday, 2 February 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
thx for the RIP... to mp3
― am0n, Friday, 2 February 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
?
― tylerw, Friday, 2 February 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
Phew, thought we had another RIP on our hands there.― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Friday, 2 February 2018
― am0n, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 02:53 (six years ago) link
terry riley will never die; he will just vibrate into eternity
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 03:33 (six years ago) link
Wow, thanks, tyler! Just downloaded.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 04:24 (six years ago) link
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.
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
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
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
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.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
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
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:21 (six years ago) link
Sweet.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 April 2018 12:05 (six years ago) link
Not to forget the man himself:
https://ovalspace.co.uk/events/view/terry-riley/
― We're comin' to your town, we'll party down, we're a Kobaian band (Matt #2), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:00 (six years ago) link
i've been listening to les yeux fermes and lifespan a lot, they are wonderful
― marcos, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
ok good, not dead yet, phew
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
alive and kicking...it with Geeta who just posted a picture of the two of them to instagram or facebook or somewhere.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
I like Lifespan a lot
― Meunier tear has to fall (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
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
― dow, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
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
― marcos, Friday, 10 August 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
oh and i just saw this now https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-terry-riley
― marcos, Monday, 13 August 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
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
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 15 June 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
ooooooh! that is good news
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 15 June 2019 22:57 (four years ago) link
Listening to "Happy Ending" and right at the death this jazzy piano part kicks in and it is so out of character and awesome
― the Swedish taboo (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 January 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
love that bit
i did a short mix with that track on it https://theporouscity.com/entries/2175
― lukas, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
sweet!
― the Swedish taboo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
okay i guess calling a 20 minute terry riley piece a "track" is a bit lol
― lukas, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
Fucking ... fuck.
Terry Riley raga class in KamakuraJune 25 & 26Infohttps://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
― death generator (lukas), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
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
― dow, Friday, 1 July 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
yall know about his youtube channel right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWoFcYI64hA
― dow, Sunday, 14 August 2022 03:57 (one year ago) link
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
― death generator (lukas), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link