Steve Reich - Drumming / Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ / Six Pianos

Mergi, Jan 23, 2005

This is certainly a very interesting yet monotone release. So how did I come to hear of Steve Reich? Actually a friend thought it good for me to have a listen to some real minimalistic arrangements instead of hammering 4x4 beats which I tend to listen to very much (psy/goa-trance), so he gave me a copy of this one. I never thought it would be this good, and the remarkable thing about this release is the fact that they've done everything manually which makes it all sound extremly unique (I'd better go check his other releases as well). From hand drums, marimbas, glockenspiel, and pianos, manipulating it in forever loops. And it all sounds so perfect, no mistakes whatsoever. Sometimes they make a section of a track go nonsynchronized on purpose, and that's for example 4 people on separate hand drums all of them not synchronized, totally brilliant. They always seem to have one pattern each, which is mixed together into different rhythmical sessions. With 4 (or more at times) artists and tracks with lengths of 20+ minutes the arrangements can take on a lot of different soundshapes, yet it always stays true to some sort of basic pattern be it a melody or rhythm or both which is repeated into infinity.

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		Drumming
A1		Part I (24:58)
		Drums [Small Tuned Drums] - Bob Becker , James Preiss , Russ Hartenberger
B1		Part II (25:45)
		Marimba - Ben Harms , Bob Becker , Cornelius Cardew , Glen Velez , Russ Hartenberger , Steve Chambers , Steve Reich , Tim Ferchen* Voice - Jay Clayton , Joan LaBarbara*
C1		Part III (15:32)
		Glockenspiel - Bob Becker , Glen Velez , James Preiss , Russ Hartenberger Piccolo Flute - Leslie Scott Whistling - Steve Reich
D1		Part IV (18:56)
		Drums [Small Tuned Drums] - Steve Chambers , Steve Reich , Tim Ferchen* Glockenspiel - Ben Harms , Cornelius Cardew , James Preiss Marimba - Bob Becker , Glen Velez , Russ Hartenberger Piccolo Flute - Leslie Scott Voice - Jay Clayton , Joan LaBarbara*
		Six Pianos
E1		Six Pianos (24:05)
		Piano - Bob Becker , Glen Velez , James Preiss , Russ Hartenberger , Steve Chambers , Steve Reich
		Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ
F1		Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ (18:30)
		Glockenspiel - Ben Harms , Glen Velez Marimba - Bob Becker , Russ Hartenberger , Steve Reich , Tim Ferchen* Organ [Electric] - Steve Chambers Percussion [Metallophone] - James Preiss Voice - Janice Jarrett , Joan LaBarbara* Voice [Melodic Patterns With Marimbas] - Jay Clayton

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