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Reich, Steve (Composer), Double Edge (Performer) Format: Audio CD

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1	Come Out
2	Piano Phase - Double Edge
3	Clapping Music - Steve Reich/Russ Hartenberger
4	It's Gonna Rain (Part One)
5	It's Gonna Rain (Part Two)

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The disc is titled Early Works. Come Out (1966) and It's Gonna Rain were the first Reich compositions released on LP, electronic works based on tape-recorded voices processed in fairly simple but intriguing ways. The hypnotic power of Come Out was the first Reich to catch my attention years ago. Piano Phase and Clapping Music use the same musical procedures, only for live performers. I don't know if this is an important disc except for people following Reich's career, but though he has gone on to greater things, these pieces still have the power to intrigue and move me. --Leslie Gerber

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 4.94 x 0.45 inches; 3.32 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Nonesuch
SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ DDD
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 7, 2006
Label ‏ : ‎ Nonesuch
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000005IYO
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Essential 60s Electronic, Worth it for "It's Gonna Rain"

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not all music really

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 3, 2011

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I should warn those who are just getting into Steve Reich ... this is by far not his best music!!!! This is almost not even Reich compared to most of his works that came later. Except for Piano Phase which is great... This is like listening to him practice what he would later turn into music. If you really need to hear him back when he was learning how to make music then go ahead and buy it. But if you want more music, try Music for 18 Musicians!

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Nothing compares - a classic; an extraordinary ground breaking ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 2, 2016

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Nothing compares - a classic; an extraordinary ground breaking work composed and efully realized when artists actually manulated and processed the physical recording tape by cutting and splicing by hand. Genius!

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Ivan Handler

Remarkable beginning

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 27, 2013

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Reich's works are pretty amazing, at least to me. These early works show how he moved from playing tape loops against each other to capturing the same phenomena with musical instruments. Piano Phase is the embodiment of this and really helps put the rest of his work in context.

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STILL AMAZING AFTER 50+ YEARS

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 21, 2018

Way back when I was still teaching history at a small New college in central New York, I had a friend, Anton, who painted. We bonded on that, our love of music and the good times our families had together. Then we moved, different places, different lives. Anton had a solo show and we drove two states over to see it. His pieces were abstract and starkly simple, two colors at the most on canvas stretched over irregular shaped wood frames. In the background was Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians (1976), playing in loop. Anton had played in many times for me when we were passing time in his house. That piece was my introduction to Reich's always interesting, often extraordinary, occasionally glorious composed music.

Our son dug Reich too so for my birthday one year, he gave me this album -vinyl then. It's still one of my favorite Reich albums. Two of the pieces, the most talked about of his early works, were created by looping and relooping uttered speech, altering speed so that the original spoken phrases transform into a blur of sound, rising in pitch to an unvoiced whir. As it continues, you realize it isn't just sound. It's another way to visualize music.

The first of the two tape loop pieces, "Come Out" (1966), was extracted from a tape of an interview with Daniel Hamm, one of the falsely accused Harlem Six, telling how he had to squeeze the bruises left by police battering in order to make them show blood when he was trying to show how badly he had been beaten. The second, the last two cuts on the album, is "It's Gonna Rain" (1965). It's a sermon-rant about the End of the World, delivered by Brother Walter, a black Pentecostal preacher. Between these two tape loop pieces on the album are (1) the 1967 Piano Phase, performed by the two-piano Double Edge (Nurit Tilles and Edmund Niemann): two pianos starting in sync and moving out of sync through subtle variations in tempo so that by the end, they're not playing the same piece at all; and (2) the 1972 performance piece, Clapping Music, performed by Reich and Russ Hartenberger, the same concept as in the piano piece but two men clapping their hands together, then slightly off tempo, and then not together at all but dazzlingly intricate. Clapping Music may be the most often performed of Reich's many works, in part because it is easily accessible. Good, but accessible. The best Reich was yet to come when he composed these early works but they show how from the very start of his long and prolific career, he was an original, and also, how listenable, enjoyable and meaningful his best works have been and still are.

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Darker Scratcher

Klassiker der "Minimal Music" aus den 60igern

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on July 20, 2017

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Auf dieser CD sind 4 Werke des Minimalisten "Steve Reich" kombiniert, die teilweise schon aus Mitte der 60iger Jahre stammen und 2 dieser Werke sind von besonderer Bedeutung. "Come Out" stammt aus dem Jahr 1965 und nutzt als Quelle eine Aufzeichnung der Polizeigewalt, die damals, wie auch heute noch von politischer Beedeutung in den USA war und ist. Steve Reich nutzt die Sprachsamples in einen immer wieder kehrenden Loop und läßt so die Aussagen sich schnell wiederholen und ineinander verschwimmen, so das das Stimmfragment im Verlaufe des Stückes zum reinem hypnotischen Sound wird, wenn man sich darauf einlassen kann. Reich läßt zwei Tonbänder parallel laufen und diese laufen dann irgendwann nicht mehr synchron.So entsteht ein beunruhigendes, psychdelisches fast schon "funkiges" Stück "Musik" auf das das Band wie "CAN" in ihrem Werk später zurückgreifen sollten. Auch "Captain Beefheart" kannte wohl schon früh diese Platten von Reich.
Das zweite wichtige Werk findet sich hier in 2 Abschnitten am Ende der CD als Track 4 : "It`s Gonna Rain" und nutzt als Soundquelle die Aussagen eines "apokalytischen Evangelisten", der so etwas wie eine weitere "Sintflut" voraussagt. Hier hört man eine ähnliche Arbeitsweise und die Stimme verschwimmt zum Soundfragment. Dies gilt auch im nächsten Abschnitt "Hallelujah".
Steve Reich versuchte dann diese genrelle Arbeitsweise auch auf Instrumental Stücke zu übertragen. "Piano Phase" ursrünglich von 1967 wurde wohl für diese CD Veröffentlichung von 1987 nochmal neu aufgenommen und präsentiert zwei Pianos, die recht schnell immer wieder die gelichen Tonfolgen spielen, die auch in den Phasen miteindnader verweben und verschwimmen. Die "Clapping Music" von 1972 , auch neu aufgenommen, ist ein weiterer Versuch in diese Richtung der auch schon an Reichs Mesiterwerk "Music for 18 Musicians" erinnert.
Diese Musik kann bei nicht Gefallen auch ganz schön "nerven" und hat den Charakter eines hängenden Musikstücks.
Avantgarde Musiker wie "Steven Stapelton" von "Nurse With Wound" oder auch "Negativland" nutzen diese Techniken auf vielen ihrer Tonträger.
(Q : Text von "Jason Gross" zum Album)

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K. Campbell

Good for Piano Phase

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 8, 2015

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I really like this CD, but my favourite track by far is Piano Phase.

massimo toniutti

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 22, 2018

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perfect

Ynek

Les premières œuvres de Steve Reich

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on June 21, 2014

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Vraiment superbe : Come out, Piano Phase, It's gonna rain, Clapping Music, des titres incontournables par l'inventeur de la musique sérielle.

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George Paxton

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 1, 2014

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astonishing stuff.

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