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I've just realised how increadable "Music For 18 Musicians" is. I've always liked it just for listening purposes, but there are a lot of formulas and clever musical tricks going on throughout. Didn't someone here write an essay about it, and SAWII? |
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ah steves my top3 second place. i love how hes playing with patters. if you want to notice, all patterns on this mentioned album are the same, just putted in different places, but main pattern remains the same. and hes doing pretty much the same on other albums - i reccomend "drumming" and, his best work "different trains". hes just incredible, and he doesnt get the credit he deserves, but hes over 50 and i think he doesnt give a shit.which probably makes him so special, and his music aswell. check these two other albums, and the rest after that, thats worthy the hassle ( coz its hard to get his works nowadays ). |
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Thanks for the reccommendation. Is his new one (called something like "The City") any good? I've heard mixed things about it. |
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new one is called "three tales " and comes with DVD that fits the music. its very good, very very moody.and beautiful.recommended aswell. |
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he's 69. I would recommend "the four sections" and "sextet" purely for the beauty of the melodies he creates. and I would recommend "city life" for the excellent use of samples. |
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some of my other favorites are "music for large ensemble" and "octet" and "tehillim." it's implicitly spiritual, i think, like bach; some of my all time favorite music. i'm not very knowledgable in a technical sense, but the aesthetic and emotional experience of reich's music has has a huge impact on me. during one of the early performances of "four organs" the audience started leaving, booing and shouting out for them to stop! then again, that's a pretty relentless piece for the blue haired classical crowd... |
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My favourites are Drumming, Eight Lines, Different Trains & Music For 18. Everything I've listened to has been good. I wouldn't say he is ignored or anything, he gets enough credit. Reich uses a technique called phasing where you have 2 exact rhythms working in phase to start with and gradually, he displaces one of them. He'll keep pushing one rhythm from the other to create a feeling of movement until it comes back into phase. |
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Eight Lines is a great pice of music, prolly my favorite. Music for mallet instruments, voices and organ and the four movements are great too. If you're into Reich's work i highly recoomend listening to Terry Riley's "in C" |
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You used to like his music just for listening purposes? |
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I used to just enjoy listening to it, and now I can see there's a lot more to it than I initally thought. As others have said, as well as it being emmotionally impacting it also has lots of clever little patterns all over the place that I never used to notice. |
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Yeah, I just had a listen to "8 Lines" and it sounds great. I'll have to check out his new DVD album. I'm glad someone here likes it, as I heard negative things about it previously. |
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it's great. |
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man that dvd album has 3 parts.first is based on Hindenburg Zeppelin disaster ( im sure youve heard about it ), and watching the dvd with archived material + hearing those instrumentals + hering the choir tellin you the story of it - its fucking amazing. amazing kinda like first listening - goosebumps on your hands. its just amazing. that album played in my headphones by more than a month.constantly. |
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