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Voluptuous Vultures

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The Voluptuous Vultures album from this electronics/noise duo consisting of MAJA RATKJE and HILD SOFIE TAFJORD, both known from the anarchistic improv quartet SPUNK. A rolling thunder of mayhem that combines all of these elements with the spazmatically beautiful vocal stylings of Ratkje. The first track, “Valkyrie Procession‚” sneaks up on you with a heartbeat like drone of noise that progresses into what seems to be an electronic orchestra tuning up for the blitzkrieg ahead. Soon, Maja bursts onto the field with a verbal assault and the madness overwhelms. The second attack, “Artbeak‚” begins with a glitch approach that is backed again by the thunderous heartbeat. Lightning bolts of Maja’s voice are thrown together with a power electronics smorgasbord that will leave your pets hiding in a dark corner of the bathroom. When the storm settles, the girls’ delicate whispers gently soothe you back to reality. The third track, “Dunlin Dance,” is a wild and nutty romp through an insane circus of electronic blips and beeps that leaves the listener feeling a bit whimsical yet refreshed. And the final track, “Voluptuous Vultures” ties the whole shebang together with exactly that—SHEBANG! Digital release with an extra track not available on the 10-inch version.

Riley, Terry

Last Camel In Paris

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Throughout the 1970s, legendary American composer Terry Riley toured regularly in Europe, performing solo organ concerts. In October 1978, Riley's personal technician Chester Wood built a stereo digital delay out of an ancient computer he had procured from Don Buchla, and the subsequent tour was the maiden voyage to try it out. Riley's specially modified two-manual Yamaha YC-45D portable combo organ had a Just Intonation setting and allowed him to feed stereo signals to the digital delay. The Yamaha had been manufactured with single mono output, but now with the modification it had a separate output for each manual eventuating in four channels (two live and two delayed).  During a residency as a Fellow at DAAD in Berlin, Riley fine-tuned the delay speeds and experimented with different stereo combinations so that by the time of this Paris concert, the tape delays worked well with the tempos he was using. This all came on the heels of the Shri Camel recording Riley had just made in San Francisco for CBS. The musical materials of The Last Camel in Paris are second generational, belonging to the Shri Camel family while manifesting their own distinct shape and flavor.

Riley, Terry

Music For The Gift

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This CD brings together four seminal tape works of Terry Riley.   The Gift music was performed in Paris 1963 by Chet Baker, with tape manipulations by Riley—the first use of tape delay to fragment, attenuate, and return time, looping tape through twin-tape recorders. The Gift recordings, referred to often by Soft Machine members, is the precursor to the landmark that launched the minimalist movement “In C.”  Bird of Paradise is a radical tape-manipulation work, the earliest known plundering that inspired Steve Reich’s “It’s Gonna Rain”-era phase recordings.  Mescalin Mix is a tape-loop recording from 1960-’62, partly inspired by Riley’s experience with mescalin and the work he did with Richard Maxfield. For this recording, the tape-loops extended out Riley’s window to a wine-bottle spindle in the yard; it was composed for choreographer Anna Halprin’s The Three-Legged Stool.  Concert for Two Pianos and Five Tape Recorders was recorded live at Hertz Hall on the UC Berkeley campus in 1960 with a humorous broadcast narrative by Glenn Glasow doing the play-by-play. It was performed by Riley and La Monte Young.

Riley, Terry

Les Yeux Fermés & Lifespan

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After changing the world in the late ‘60s with In C and A Rainbow in Curved Air, legendary American composer and father of minimalism Terry Riley abandoned tape-manipulation and written composition to concentrate on longform keyboard cycles and improvisations. In the early ‘70s, while in Europe, he was invited to create scores for two films. The first, in 1972, was Joel Santoni’s Les Yeux Fermés, a feature-length art film that instantly became a cult classic by virtue of its never having screened in the USA. The second, Lifespan, directed by Alexander Whitelaw in 1974, featured Klaus Kinski. Both soundtracks were released in limited editions on LP and have long been out of print.   This first-ever CD release of these two classic Terry Riley soundtracks—both on one disc—was remastered from the original tapes, the hypnotic songs sounding far superior to the below-average vinyl pressings. Having brought the ‘60s Corti archive back into print, Elision Fields now turns its attention to the under-examined crucial period of Riley’s work—the ‘70s.

Riley, Terry

Reed Streams

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***AVAILABLE AGAIN!!! TERRY RILEY’s first LP, originally released in 1966 in a limited edition of 1,000 on Mass Art. Includes the first appearance of the time-lag accumulator on record heard in an early version of “Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band,” along with a version of “Keyboard Studies” on reed organ, and as a bonus, a psychedelic big-band adaptation of “In C (Mantra)” recorded under the direction of WALTER BOUDREAU in 1970.

Riley, Terry

Poppy Nogood And The Phantom Band All Night Flight: Suny Buffalo, New York, 22 March 1968

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***AVAILABLE AGAIN!!! “The live recording of Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band All Night Flight taken from a 1968 concert titled "Purple Modal Strobe Ecstasy with the Daughters of Destruction" is the perfect trigger for what anthropologist Jean Rouch called 'The Strange Mechanism,’ the trance state which most of this decade's electronic music aspires to induce. The immediacy and the spectral filigree—the dervishes summoned during Riley's nocturnal concert—have been faithfully preserved on this CD.”—Richard Henderson, The Wire  * Available again! Riley's classic "all night" performance recorded March 22, 1968 at SUNY Buffalo, New York  * Hypnotic minimalism at its finest  * Originally issued as part of the Organ of Corti Archive Series  * Features new cover art and photography

Riley, Terry

Olson III

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***Written in 1963 for the Music High School students in Nacka Sweden, TERRY RILEY’s Olsen III caused an uproar at its premiere in 1967. For high school chorus and orchestra, this piece's driving pulsations are overpowering.

Riley, Terry

You're Nogood

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No Man's Land

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Persian Surgery Dervishes

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