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TERRY RILEY

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Episode #3 - Deep Ecology and Gaia Hypothesis

Marking the 50th anniversary of Terry Riley's pioneering masterpiece ‘In C’, Africa Express will release the first African version of the minimalist classic, 'Africa Express presents… Terry Riley's In C Mali'. This new version was recorded at the Maison des Jeunes youth club in Bamako, Mali in 2013, and is led by young contemporary conductor André de Ridder. The album features the cream of new artists from Bamako, among them Adama Koita, Bijou, Cheick Diallo, alongside Africa Express stalwarts Damon Albarn, Brian Eno and Nick Zinner. Co-produced and mixed by Andi Toma (Mouse on Mars), the album will be released via Transgressive Records on digital formats on 24th November, with a CD and limited edition vinyl following 26th January 2015.

iTunes - out 24th November 2014 http://geni.us/2mbg

CD / LP - out 26th January 2015 http://shop.transgressiverecords.com/

Africa Express Presents... Terry Riley's In C Mali (5 Minute Edit)

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1. Terry Riley - G song
2. Terry Riley Feat. chet Baker - Music For The Gift (Part 3)
3. Terry Riley - In C
4. Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air
5. Terry Riley - Crucifixion of My Humble Self
6. Kronos Quartet & Wu Man - Buddhas Bedroom 
7. Terry Riley - Journey From a Death of a Friend

26.6. ABBA Dojezd - Terry Riley

Terry Riley & Friends 'Lunatree: A Rainbow in Curved Air' Boiler Room

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Rewilding the Earth: Nurturing the Web of Life | Dennis Martinez & Dave Foreman

Recreational Love

Lovey Dovey

TERRY RILEY - The 3 Generations Trio

Terry Riley - Rainbow In Cologne1

Terry Riley - Rainbow In Cologne2

Originally released posthumously on Zopf Records in 1998, this newly re-mastered and re-packaged edition of Piano Music is re-released in April 2011 to coincide with the re-releases of both Concert Program and Union Cafe on the new Penguin Cafe Label.

'Most of the pieces on this album are previously unreleased material found on Simon's tapes after his death in December 1997. Exceptions are 'Piano Music', which appeared on the Preludes Airs and Yodels compilation, and 'Kora Kora' and 'Silver Star', which were on the Union Cafe album. 'Lullaby' is a new peice completed by Simon but recorded after his death by friends and members of Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

The other fourteen pieces were played and recorded by Simon at various times and places (some unknown). 'Shelter' and 'Cajun Piano' are sketches of pieces Simon planned to record fir his next album, which would have also incuded 'Lullaby'. Less specifically, he often imagined a future collection of piano music - not to be confused, of course, with this retrospective one.'

Penguin Cafe release their new album 'The Imperfect Sea' in 2017, accompanied by international touring.

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13 Kora Kora

Taken from Redspencer's debut LP 'Perks', out now via Deaf Ambitions.

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Produced and engineered by David M Turner, esq. (Tourist Dollars).
Mastered by Josh Bonati (Mac DeMarco, DIIV, Wild Nothing).

Redspencer - G-Talk

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Exclusive mix from @cindys-tapes to Trax Magazine.

Cindys Tapes Exclusive Mix for Trax Magazine

Arve Henriksen - Groundswell

Circle - Kill City

Excerpts from Carlos Casas' Pyramid of Skulls 2xLP out on 26th May 2017

Ghosts from the future and spirits from the past collide in this sci-fi field recording experiment. 

More info at www.discrepant.net

Pyramid of Skulls

Carlos Casas - Sinpoj Variations (excerpt from Pyramid of Skulls 2xLP)

Back At It

Claude Speeed returns to Planet Mu, two years after the 'Sun Czar Temple' EP, with his second album 'Infinity Ultra'. He describes the record he's been creating since he started making computer music as one "conceiving an interior territory: an abstract space to process the oppression, confusion and insanity of the contemporary age; and to formulate an honest emotional and artistic response - a psychic jumping off point into an uncertain future." 
 
'Infinity Ultra' takes inspiration from sleep paralysis, monumental artworks, children’s anime, abandoned places, ghostly rave pasts and terrifying silicon valley futures, and the limitless anger of the digital present.
 
These influences have been channelled into an impressionistic burst of varied creativity: Shimmering VSTs; monolithic noise; euphoric blocks of colourful sound; trance stabs and the citrus rush of hardcore; towering drones, and skynet math rock – all rendered against cold, sinister space and nostalgic synth melodies.
 
The album reveals the artist’s Scottish roots, viewed at a hazy distance from his Berlin home - a series of memories of Glasgow’s experimental psychedelic underground, its DIY rock scene and defiant club hedonism. These genre relationships are blurred and at times they contrast with audible brutality; the result is a hybrid, sculptured way of rendering music – minimal specifics, maximum emotions.

Infinity Ultra

Claude Speeed - Fifth Fortress (14th July)

Taken from the album "An American Hero" (LOVE106) - out 9th June 2017

Angela (Square)

Philippe Hallais -Angela (Square)

This classic minimal music album is now available again on vinyl for the first time since the 70s.

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Californian composer Terry Riley’s In C, first issued on vinyl in 1968, is widely acknowledged as a Minimalist landmark that altered the course of twentieth-century music. His influential album A Rainbow In Curved Air, which appeared the following year, is a vivid fusion of rock and raga, jazz and psychedelia realised through overdubbing on an 8-track machine which had recently been installed at the studios of Columbia Records.  

By the early 70s Riley had come to feel that scores were a distraction. Faithful interpretation of an already written piece was a deviation from the true purpose of making music, which was spiritual quest. Fortunately, some of those live performances, personal journeys towards a state of transcendence, were captured on tape. Persian Surgery Dervishes, issued initially on the French label Shandar, features two such concerts for electric organ and reel-to-reel delay, one recorded in Los Angeles on 18th April 1971, the other in Paris on 24th May 1972.

At the start of that decade Riley became a dedicated student of the great Hindustani singer Pandit Pran Nath. Looking into North Indian classical tradition he found correspondences to modal and cyclic ideas that he was already working on. In 1971, as a way to learn more, Riley himself started teaching Indian music at Mills College, in Oakland. That experience fed directly into his solo keyboard performances, but other influences were also shaping the music heard on Persian Surgery Dervishes. Personal research into ancient Persian culture and the poetry of Rumi lit up his imagination, while the repetitive swirling of Sufi devotional music from North Africa, which Riley had first encountered in Europe during the early 60s, reverberates through these performances. Jazz, as conceived by such masters such as Bill Evans and John Coltrane, is also present as an enduring source of inspiration. 

The Californian version of Persian Surgery Dervishes starts with low dark tones, dense and brooding like a huddled human figure, deep in introspection. But as the improvisation unfolds Riley’s buoyant spirit asserts itself, spiralling out in ecstatic coils, as though liberated from the grip of body consciousness. The Parisian concert conveys a different mood, brighter and more open in texture, more relaxed from the outset and breathing with greater freedom as it takes flight. 

Echoes of Terry Riley’s inspired music have spread far and wide - into progressive rock, New Age and ambient soundings, film soundtracks, blissed-out electronica and dance-floor trance. His fluent and hypnotic keyboard playing can be heard as part of a continuum, transmitting energies from ancient and distant musical sources into the living here and now. Persian Surgery Dervishes is a significant part of that picture, a mesmerising record of a vital stage in Riley’s ongoing quest for connection with the universal mind and the sublime music that flows ceaselessly from it. 

“Music is my spiritual path. It’s my way of finding out who I am.”  Terry Riley, in 1976

Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes - Performance 02 Part 1

The Man In The Desert

The Big Combo - The Man In The Desert

"Don't worry, you won't feel a thing, hopefully" by Flogging A Dead One Horse Town.

From the forthcoming album, Listening Will Cause Death, released through MUZAI Records from December 8th 2017 on CD and digitally.

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Listening Will Cause Death

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Flogging A Dead One Horse Town - Don't worry, you won't feel a thing, hopefully

Written in Berkeley Vale, NSW and Northcote, Vic
Recorded in West Geelong, Vic
Mastered in Rye, Vic
Pressed in East Brunswick, Vic

Family Dinner

IN C #4 for Terry Riley

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Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes - Performance 02 Part 1

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