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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
- Best Sellers Rank: #12,689 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #11 in Orchestral Jazz
- #12 in Techno (CDs & Vinyl)
- #102 in Special Interest
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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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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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