Artist: Terry Riley: mp3 download Genre(s): Ethnic Easy Listening Discography: Moscow Conservatory Solo Piano Concert Year: 2001 Tracks: 6 Imbas Forasnai Year: 1994 Tracks: 6 Persian Surgery Dervishes Year: 1993 Tracks: 2 Reed Streams Year: 1968 Tracks: 3 Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band All Night Flight, Vol. 1 Year: 1968 Tracks: 5 Music for the Gift - Bird of Paradise - Mescalin Mix Year: 1963 Tracks: 12 In C - 25th Anniversary Concert Year: Tracks: 1 A Rainbow in Curved Air Year: Tracks: 2 Minimalist open up Terry Riley was among the to the highest degree revolutionary composers of the postwar epoch; famed for his kickoff appearance of repeating into Western medicine motifs, he besides masterminded early experiments in tape recording loops and delay systems which left wing an unerasable mark on the experimental music produced in his waken. Riley was congenital June 24, 1935 in Colfax, California, and began playing professionally as a solo piano player during the 1950s; by the midsection of the decennium he was poring over composition in San Francisco and Berkeley, where among his classmates was comrade minimalist innovator La Monte Young. Influenced by John Coltrane and John Cage, he began exploring receptive temporary expedient and cutting edge music, and in 1960 composed Mescalin Mix, a musique concrète bit composed for the Ann Halprin Dance Company consisting of tape measuring stick loops of various go under up sounds. By the early '60s, Riley was on a regular basis holding solo reed organ performances starting time at 10:00 pm and continuing until sunrise, an obvious forerunner of the overnight tube raves to follow decades later. After graduating Berkeley in 1961, his next major work was 1963's Music for the Gift, composed for a play written by Ken Dewey; among the first pieces e'er generated by a tape delay/feedback system, it employed two tape recorders -- a setup Riley dubbed the "Time Lag Accumulator" -- playing a loop-the-loop of Chet Baker's interpretation of Miles Davis' "So What." The loop effect sparked Riley's interest in repeating as a way of musical expression, and in 1964 he accomplished his most far-famed act, the minimalist breakthrough In C; a bit constructed from 53 disunite patterns, it was a watershed composition which provided the conception for a modern musical grade assembled from mesh repetitious figures. In time, Riley besides well-read to play saxophone, introducing the legal instrument into his supposed all-night flights; these larger-than-life improvisational performances became the base for his to the highest degree successful recordings, 1968's Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band and the following year's A Rainbow in Curved Air, the music's cyclical patterns and etheral atmospheric static predating the rise of the ambient conception by several age. In 1970, Riley made the number 1 of many trips to India to study below vocal original Pandit Pran Nath, with whom he frequently performed in the years to come up; some other collaborator was John Cale, a pairing which resulted in the 1971 LP Church of Anthrax, arguably Riley's to the highest degree widely-known transcription outside of experimental euphony circles. Throughout the 1970s, he besides taught composing and North Indian Raga at Mills College in Oakland, California. A geminate of early-'70s live performances -- 1 in L.A., the other in Paris -- resulted in the 1972 album Farsi Surgery Dervishes, a work of ruminative simple machine music clearly prescient of the spell level-headed to survey. Around the like time, piece on staff at Mills, he befriended David Harrington, violinist of the Kronos Quartet; their camraderie yielded a add up of nine string quartets, the keyboard quintette Crows Rosary and The Sands, a concerto for string quartette and orchestra licenced by the Salzberg Festival in 1991. Another Riley/Kronos collaboration, 1989's Salome Dances for Peace, was even nominated for a Grammy. Recording less and often as the age passed, Riley agreed to phase a execution celebrating the silver medal day of remembrance of In C which was then released in 1990. |