terry riley c/d, s/d

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.

I was listening to Poppy No Good this morning and my sister made snide remarks.

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.

He was an electronic forebear. A minimalist pioneer. A sampling pioneer. Many other things as well.

In C is to me one of his least intersting works. Poppy Nogood / All Night Flight is da bomb tho

In C feels more like an exercise than something worth listening to.

Rainbow in Curved Air, Happy Endings, Shri Camel=awesome.

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.

thanks.

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).

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.

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.

descending moonshine dervishes <3

He's doing a European tour this autumn with Talvin Singh. Sounds intriguing, I'll be checking this out.

Good news, the lifem looks good in general, too

he is playing with john zorn in SF soon (during zorn's week-long residency at yoshi's)

wwowowowowow

Terry Riley played at my school's graduation a couple of years ago

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?

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.