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 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 04:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 04:27 (seventeen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
should pay $10 to see a performance of in c tomorrow?
― am0n, Thursday, 8 May 2008 16:00 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks, guys!
― admrl, Monday, 12 May 2008 01:31 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen 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 (fourteen 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
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