Terry Riley (b. 1935)

[torut]

Inspired by this thread, I am re-listening Riley's CDs I have. I purchased Music for the Gift mainly because of Chet Baker, but it was very strange music for me at that time. The CD contains his early tape works just before he composed In C. They have feelings of "handmade" and "lo-fi", as mentioned in the liner note, which I tend to like. The music is very different from his later works. There is a short work Concerto for Two Pianists and Five Tape Recorders (1961) played by Riley and La Monte Young.

The cover art of the CD I have is a part of Bruce Conner's work.


Bruce Conner - PSYCHEDELICATESSEN OWNER (1990)


This is the cover of the current release.
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Last Camel in Paris
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Live version of Shri Camel (1977), recorded on November 10, 1978 at Thèâtre Edouard VII in Paris. It is a continuous performance lasting for about 54 min, and I think as good as Shri Camel, but the sound is clearer & brighter. Shri Camel might be felt more mysterious.

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Just Intonation and Indian Aesthetic in Terry Riley's The Harp of New Albion


I'll have to study this later and see what kind of conclusions the author comes to.

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Just Intonation and Indian Aesthetic in Terry Riley's The Harp of New Albion


I'll have to study this later and see what kind of conclusions the author comes to.

It is very interesting. I learned many things I didn't know. Thank you for the link.
Also, I didn't know that there is another live recording album, The Padova Concert.

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Terry has a pretty good discography on his web site now (this wasn't always the case!) 

http://terryriley.net/discography.htm



1966 Reed Streams Mass Art
1968 In C CBS Masterworks MS 7178
1969 A Rainbow in Curved Air CBS Masterworks MS 7315
1970 The Church of Anthrax (with John Cale) CBS
1970 Keyboard Study 2 Germ
1972 Happy Ending Waner Bros. 46125
1972 The Persian Surgery Dervishes Shandar 83501
1974 le Secret de la Vie Phillips
1978 Shri Camel CBS Masterworks M3519
1982 The Descending Moonshine Dervishes/
1983 The Ten Voices of the Two Prophets Celestial Harmonies 12047 (2 CD Package)
1985 No Man's Land Plainisphare PLl267
1985 The Ethereal Time Shadow (Music from Mills ) MC 001
1985 Cadenza on the Night Plain Gramavision 181014-1
1986 The Harp of New Albion Celestial Harmonies 14018
1986 Keys of Live Celestial Harmonies
1989 IN C with the Shanghai Film Orchestra Celestial Harmonies 13026
1989 Salome Dances for Peace Nonesuch 9 79217 I
1990 Keyboard Study 2 Piano Circus Argo
1991 June Buddhas (Lou Harrison 7 Pastorales) Music Masters 67089-2
1992 The Padova Concert Amiata Arnn 0292
1992Tread on The Trail In Good Company/Jon Gibson Point Records 434-873-2
1993 Persian Surgery Dervishes (re-issue) New Tone T29806715 2
1993 Cactus Rosary (NEW WORLD) Artifact Music ARf 006
1993 In C25th Anniversary Concert New Albion NA 071
1994 Chanting the Light of Foresight New Albion NA 064
1995 IN C Eddy de Fanti Materiali Sonori
1994 Intuitive Leaps Work Music
1996 No Man's Land (revised/reissue) Plainisphare 1267-93
1996 Lisbon Concert New Albion NA087
1996 Poppy Nogood All Night Flight V.1 Organ of Corti 4
1997 A Lazy Afternoon Among the Crocodiles AIAI008
1998 The Piano Music of John Adams and Terry Riley Telarc Cd80513
1998 Vigil of the Snow Clam Solar/Helios Sol y Samba Records 001
1999 Reed Streams Organ of Corti 2
1999 Olson lll Ogan of Corti 3
2000 Music for the Gift Organ of Corti 1
2000 Cortejo Funebre en el Monte Diablo Kronos Caravan Nonesuch 79490-2
2000 IN C Ictus Live Cypres 5601
2000 IN C SMCQ live with Walter Boudreau ATMA ACD2225L
2000 Good Medicine The Smith Quartet 779-043-2
2001 You're Nogood Organ of Corti V
2001 IN C The Bang on a Can All Stars Cantaloup 21004
2001 IN C The Repetition Orchestra Long Arms
2001 Requiem for Adam Kronos Quartet Nonesuch 79639-2
2002 IN C European Music Project with the electronics duo zignorii++ Wergo
2002 Keyboard Study 2 Musik production Dabring Haus undGrimm
2002 Y Bolanzero Jugendguitarrenorchester Cadenza
2002 Atlantis Nath Terry Riley solo album Sri Moonshine Music
2003 Cantos Desiertos Alexandra Hawley,Jeffrey McFadden guitar flute Naxos
2003 Rainbow in Curved Air/Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band La Repubblica
2005 Diamond Fiddle Language Riley/Scodanibbio Wergo
2005 I like You Eyes Liberty Michael McClure/Terry Riley Sri Moonshine Music
2007 The Cusp of Magic Kronos Quartet/Wu Man Nonesuch
2007 Les Yeux Fermes (reissue) Elision Fields
2008 Banana Humberto Terry Riley/Paul Dresher Ensemble Sri Moonshine Music
2008 The last Camel in Paris Terry Riley/Yamaha organ/The Shadow digital delay Sri Moonshine Music
2010 Autodreamographical Tales Terry Riley solo Tzadik
2011 Terry Riley and Gyan Riley -Live Sri Moonshine Music

[torut]

Terry has a pretty good discography on his web site now (this wasn't always the case!) 

http://terryriley.net/discography.htm

It is nice. It would be better if they put the recording years.
I think the latest CD not in the list is Aleph (2012).
Also not in the list, I didn't know that these works have been recorded.

Terry Riley - Two Early Works
Calder Quartet
1. String Quartet (1960) 17:58
2. String Trio (1961) 12:02


The two works make a good contrast. The string quartet is minimalistic work in the sense of Young's Trio for Strings. Riley's string trio is more dynamic, sounds like early avant-garde music. It was a little surprise for me. The recording sound is good.

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I've heard both of those.

The Calder Qt I only heard about last month, I thought someone gave me bootleg recordings. I didn't realise they were official recordings. Interesting to hear, I understand how they fit in.

The two Tzadik albums I still have mixed feelings about, just like a bunch of other TR recordings from the last 15, 20 years. I was real excited about Aleph, but it wasn't quite what I expected. I think I'd really like to hear him play organ again.

[torut]

Besides The Harp of New Albion, I too love his electric organ works: Poppy No Good, The Persian Surgery Dervishes, Shri Camel. The last Camel in Paris (recorded 1978) seems the last album he recorded electric organ? (I am trying to make a list of recording years of Riley's albums, but it is more difficult than I had thought...)

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Besides The Harp of New Albion, I too love his electric organ works: Poppy No Good, The Persian Surgery Dervishes, Shri Camel. The last Camel in Paris (recorded 1978) seems the last album he recorded electric organ? (I am trying to make a list of recording years of Riley's albums, but it is more difficult than I had thought...)

Yeah. Shri Camel is also from 78.

Les Yeux Fermés & Lifespan is mostly organ.

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1986 Keys of Live Celestial Harmonies

Comp, includes The New Albion Chorale.

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1986 Keys of Live Celestial Harmonies

Comp, includes The New Albion Chorale.

It is the same recording contained in The Harp of New Albion, right?
(According to http://www.harmonies.com/releases/13017.htm.)

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It is the same recording contained in The Harp of New Albion, right?
(According to http://www.harmonies.com/releases/13017.htm.)

Probably.

[torut]

I gathered the recording years of Riley's albums as much as possible.  I couldn't find some of them.
<recording year> / <release year> <album titile> ...
No guarantee.

1963 / 2000 Music for the Gift - Organ of Corti 1
1966 / 1966 Reed Streams - Mass Art
1966 / 1999 Reed Streams - Organ of Corti 2
1967 / 1999 Olson III - Riley (soprano sax), Nacka Community - Ogan of Corti 3
1967 / 2001 You're Nogood - Riley (synthesizer [Moog], Tape, Loops) - Organ of Corti V
1968 / 1968 In C - CBS Masterworks MS 7178
1968 / 1969 Rainbow in Curved Air - Riley (organ, harpsichord, keyboards, Goblet Drum, Tambourine) - CBS Masterworks MS 7315
1968 / 1968 Keyboard Study 2 - Germ
1968 / 1996 Poppy Nogood All Night Flight V.1 - Riley (Soprano Saxophone, Organ, Effects) - Organ of Corti 4
1968 / 2003 Rainbow in Curved Air/Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band - La Repubblica
1970 / 1971 The Church of Anthrax (with John Cale) CBS
1971-72 / 1972 The Persian Surgery Dervishes - Riley (electric organ, tape) - Shandar 83501
1971-72 / 1993 The Persian Surgery Dervishes (re-issue) New Tone T29806715 2
1972 / 1972 Happy Ending - soundtrack - Waner Bros. 46125
1972&74 / 2007 Les Yeux Fermes (reissue of Happy Ending, 1972, and Le Secret De La Vie, 1975) - Riley (Bosendorfer Imperial Grand Piano, Voice, Soprano Saxophone, Hammond B3 organ Yamaha console organ and assorted clavichords and electric keys) -Elision Fields
1975 / 1975 le Secret de la Vie - soundtrack - Phillips
1975 / 1982 The Descending Moonshine - Riley (organ with modifications and a delay) - Dervishes
1977 / 1978 Shri Camel for solo electronic organ tuned in just intonation and modified by digital delay - CBS Masterworks M3519
1978 / 2008 The last Camel in Paris, live solo electric organ - Riley (Yamaha organ, The Shadow digital delay) - Sri Moonshine Music
1982 / 1983 Songs for The Ten Voices of the Two Prophets - Riley (Vocals, Synthesizer) - Celestial Harmonies 12047 (2 CD Package)
1982 / 1985 The Ethereal Time Shadow (9:20) Music from Mills, compilation - Riley (voice, synthesizer) - MC 001
1983 / 1995 IN C Eddy de Fanti Materiali Sonori
1984 / 1985 No Man's Land - Riley (Electronics [Prophet V Synthesizer], Piano, Vocals); Krishna (Bhatt Sitar, Tabla) - Plainisphare PLl267
1984 / 1996 No Man's Land (revised/reissue) Plainisphare 1267-93
1984 / 1985 Cadenza on the Night Plain - Kronos Quartet - Gramavision 181014-1
1986 / 1986 The Harp of New Albion, for piano tuned in just intonation - Celestial Harmonies 14018
1986 / 1986 The New Albion Chorale (from The Harp of New Albion) in Keys of Life (compilation) - Riley (piano) - Celestial Harmonies
1986 / 1992 The Padova Concert - Riley solo piano improvisation from The Harp of New Albion and Salome Dances for Peace - Amiata Arnn 0292
1988 / 1989 Salome Dances for Peace - Kronos Quartet - Nonesuch 9 79217 I
1989 / 1989 IN C with the Shanghai Film Orchestra - Celestial Harmonies 13026
- / 1990 Keyboard Study 2 Piano Circus - Argo
- / 1991 June Buddhas (Lou Harrison 7 Pastorales) Music Masters 67089-2
- / 1992 Tread on The Trail In Good Company/Jon Gibson Point Records 434-873-2
- / 1993 Cactus Rosary (NEW WORLD) compilation - Array Music Ensemble - Artifact Music ARf 006
1990 / 1993 In C 25th Anniversary Concert New Albion NA 071
1993-98 / 2002 Atlantis Nath Terry Riley solo album - Sri Moonshine Music
1994 / 1994 Chanting the Light of Foresight - Rove Saxophone Quartet - New Albion NA 064
- / 1994 Intuitive Leaps - Zeitgeist (ensemble) - Work Music
1994-95 / 1997 A Lazy Afternoon Among the Crocodiles - Riley (synthesizer), Scodanibbio (bass) - AIAI008
1995 / 1996 Lisbon Concert - solo piano - New Albion NA087
1995 / 1998 The Piano Music of John Adams and Terry Riley - Gloria Cheng-Cochran (piano) - Telarc Cd80513
- / 1998 Vigil of the Snow Clam Solar/Helios Sol y - Samba Records 001
1997 / 2000 IN C Ictus Live Cypres 5601
1997 / 2000 IN C SMCQ live with Walter Boudreau ATMA ACD2225L
1998-2000 / 2005 Diamond Fiddle Language - Riley(electronics, voice)/Scodanibbio(bass), live - Wergo
- / 1999 The Book of Abbeyozzud - guitar, violin, percussion - New Albion ‎– NA 106 CD
- / 2002 Y Bolanzero, for 20 guitars (from "The Book of Abbeyozzud") (compilation) - Jugendguitarrenorchester - Cadenza
1999 / 2000 Cortejo Funebre en el Monte Diablo in Caravan (compilation) - Kronos Quartet - Nonesuch 79490-2
1999 / 2000 Good Medicine (compilation, track 1 only) - The Smith Quartet 779-043-2
1998 / 2001 IN C The Bang on a Can All Stars Cantaloup 21004
2000 / 2001 IN C The Repetition Orchestra Long Arms
2000 / 2001 Requiem for Adam - Kronos Quartet, Riley (solo piano, 4th track only) - Nonesuch 79639-2
2001 / 2002 IN C European Music Project with the electronics duo zignorii++ Wergo
2001-2003 / 2005 Assassin Reverie - Arte Quartett (sax), Riley (vocals, piano, harpsichord) - New World Records
2002 / 2008 Banana Humberto, piano concerto - Terry Riley (piano) / Paul Dresher Ensemble - Sri Moonshine Music
- / 2002 Keyboard Studies - Steffen Schleiermacher (piano) - Musik production Dabring Haus und Grimm
2002 / 2003 Cantos Desiertos (compilation) - Alexandra Hawley flute, Jeffrey McFadden guitar - Naxos
2003-04 / 2005 I like Your Eyes Liberty - Michael McClure/Terry Riley - Sri Moonshine Music
2004-10 / 2011 Terry Riley and Gyan Riley Live - piano, voice, guitar - Sri Moonshine Music
2006 / 2007 The Cusp of Magic - Kronos Quartet / Wu Man (pipa) - Nonesuch
2006 / 2010 Autodreamographical Tales - Terry Riley (solo voice, piano) - Tzadik
2008 / 2010 Two Early Works (1960-61) - the Calder Quartet
2008 / 2012 Aleph - Riley (Synthesizer [Korg Triton Studio 88]) - Tzadik  TZ 8167

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'In C,' and Many Other Keys

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Terry Riley's "In C," the seminal Minimalist score that has become virtually a standard repertory work, at least in New York – hardly a season goes by without at least one performance – 11 composers have joined forces to write companion works built around the other notes of the chromatic scale. [...] The composers who responded were Eleonor Sandresky, Lisa Maree Dowling, David Borden, Gene Pritsker, Elliott Sharp, Adam Cuthbért, Brad Balliett, John King and Vasko Dukovski.

This seems interesting. I hope the audio or video of the performance will become available.

[milk]

I'm not sure where this belongs (do we need a 'just intonation' thread?) but I just picked this up. This is more of something new for me. Apparently he works with Riley.

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I'm not sure where this belongs (do we need a 'just intonation' thread?) but I just picked this up. This is more of something new for me. Apparently he works with Riley.

That is very good. I posted his Revelation in 21st century music thread few days ago. A piano tuned in a different version of just intonation was used, and it "represents the evolution of the concept [he] began with in From Ancient Worlds," according to his web site.

(do we need a 'just intonation' thread?)

Yes, please start it!

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"In A" by John King - part of "IN (Key)" - a celebration of Terry Riley's "IN C" @ 50 years

https://www.youtube.com/v/OdtbWKu7TtQ

Make Music New York, June 21, 2014, Cornelia St., NYC
John King (viola), Eleonor Sandresky (keyboard), Lisa Maree Dowling (electric bass), Gene Pritsker (electric guitar), Elliott Sharp (electric guitar), Adam Cuthbért (trumpet & laptop), Patrick Grant (keyboard), Brad Balliett (bassoon), Vasko Dukovski (clarinet), and Jed Distler (keyboard)

http://patrickgrant.com/InKey.html

http://www.johnkingmusic.com/index.cfm

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Terry Riley solo, live in the 70's
https://www.youtube.com/v/QE2CEh66gTg

There is no description, but it was probably late 70's. The music was from Shri Camel (recorded in 1977).

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Terry Riley solo, live in the 70's
https://www.youtube.com/v/QE2CEh66gTg

There is no description, but it was probably late 70's. The music was from Shri Camel (recorded in 1977).

Cool video!

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In C Just Intonation Koto Ensemble - Day Version
https://www.youtube.com/v/6CkaWCLvPC0 https://www.youtube.com/v/TanSI3Dsn2Y

A just-intonation arrangement of Terry Riley's "In C" for koto ensemble. Soothing. There is a night version, too.