I felt great when DB mentioned Steve Reich, and particularly "Music For 18 Musicians". I'm a big Reich fan, and "18 Musicians" is probably my favorite piece by him. I've been lucky enough to see Steve Reich and Friends perform. Having been to a lot of mostly rock and jazz fusion concerts, I found it so refreshing to see to 2 musicians come out a "clap" a piece of music! Not just refreshing, but powerful. No instruments to hide behind. (Clapping Phase can be found on a CD of Reich's early works.) I second Scott's recommendation of "Proverb", but I did not find "City Life" any less satisfying. There was a PBS docu-concert about "City Life" a few years back that was very cool. Reich usually writes liner notes to his pieces, and his attention to detail and reasons for doing certain things are very interesting. I have much of Reich's music, and I'd recommend it all. A good starting point might be "Electric Counterpoint" with Pat Metheny. Minimalism, but with layers of electric guitar.
One Way records recently released the first Group 87 album on cd. (Group 87 - Mark Isham, Peter Maunu, Patrick O'Hearn, and Terry Bozzio on drums - recorded in 1980, I believe.) This is a great disk of "fusion", but it does have some minimalist moments. Their second cd - A Career in Dada Processing - is similar. (The difference is no Bozzio or O'Hearn - I guess they'd formed Missing Persons at this point...)
Anyway, it's great to see a couple of my favorite musical threads crossing paths!
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I felt great when DB mentioned Steve Reich, and particularly "Music For 18 Musicians". I'm a big Reich fan, and "18 Musicians" is probably my favorite piece by him. I've been lucky enough to see Steve Reich and Friends perform. Having been to a lot of mostly rock and jazz fusion concerts, I found it so refreshing to see to 2 musicians come out a "clap" a piece of music! Not just refreshing, but powerful. No instruments to hide behind. (Clapping Phase can be found on a CD of Reich's early works.) I second Scott's recommendation of "Proverb", but I did not find "City Life" any less satisfying. There was a PBS docu-concert about "City Life" a few years back that was very cool. Reich usually writes liner notes to his pieces, and his attention to detail and reasons for doing certain things are very interesting. I have much of Reich's music, and I'd recommend it all. A good starting point might be "Electric Counterpoint" with Pat Metheny. Minimalism, but with layers of electric guitar.
One Way records recently released the first Group 87 album on cd. (Group 87 - Mark Isham, Peter Maunu, Patrick O'Hearn, and Terry Bozzio on drums - recorded in 1980, I believe.) This is a great disk of "fusion", but it does have some minimalist moments. Their second cd - A Career in Dada Processing - is similar. (The difference is no Bozzio or O'Hearn - I guess they'd formed Missing Persons at this point...)
Anyway, it's great to see a couple of my favorite musical threads crossing paths!
One Way records recently released the first Group 87 album on cd. (Group 87 - Mark Isham, Peter Maunu, Patrick O'Hearn, and Terry Bozzio on drums - recorded in 1980, I believe.) This is a great disk of "fusion", but it does have some minimalist moments. Their second cd - A Career in Dada Processing - is similar. (The difference is no Bozzio or O'Hearn - I guess they'd formed Missing Persons at this point...)
Anyway, it's great to see a couple of my favorite musical threads crossing paths!
