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Avant garde since that NWW list
FeralCats:
Yeah, and that album is only like, 12$.
For Reich, I strongly reccomend 'Music For 18 Musicians' first. enough to get anyone hooked on Minimalism.
For Riley, go to the abover Curved Air blog and download the Riley piece from there, 'A Rainbow In Curved Air'. Or buy a piece called 'In C'.
timehat:
Don't forget Riley's Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band. That's some pretty weird and awesome stuff.
Misereatur:
UPLOADED
brew:
Yeah, "Music for 18 Musicians" is by far the most accessible Steve Reich piece I've heard so far, and maybe still my favorite. I like "Piano Phase" out of his earlier material.
I stumbled upon a pretty cool version of "Electric Counterpoint" a little while ago: http://www.myspace.com/michaelmaloney. A little different from Matheny's.
nuisance:
My biases being heavily towards electronic music, I'd strongly recommend Reich's famous tape pieces, 'It's Gonna Rain' and uhh.. what's it actually called? 'Comes Out'?
Also the one where he lets two suspending microphones swing passed each other, causing feedback as they swing by.. what the hell's that called? Something about pendulums?
I wouldn't recommend the remix album at all. I like quite a few of the artists involved, and I like Reich, but the project seemed doomed from the start to me.
The soft marimba action on many of his other phase pieces is pretty sweet, tho. It's funny how superficial / incidental choices like that can totally change whether or not it's enjoyable. IMO Glass's chugging farfisa organs are bloody unlistenable by comparison.
Reich's stuff points to a lot of techno and a lot of post-rock, but I generally think a lot of the subsequent music is not so inkeeping with the spirit of the list. Too .. pastoral? ... lush? .. listenable? ;)
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