Terry Riley
Happy Ending
Warner Bros. Records, 1972
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Always smiling uncle Riley is largely known for his In C and A Rainbow in the Curved Air works, and if first of them makes him one of the minimalism fathers, second means a lot for the modern music. In the Rainbow in the Curved Air Riley created basis for development of special new age music style - electronic psychedelia of acid experiences, interpreted as mystic or religious revelations. Not the last role was played by Timothy Leary's propaganda, but very sound and imagery was taken by "acid" new-age generation from Riley's music.
In one interview Terry said that LSD gives a person the opportunity to take a closer look at the world, to see it not just detailed, but fluid, endlessly changing. No doubt, this fluidity forms the basis and purpose of the music of most soulful of all American minimalists. Jazz harmonies and Indian ragas served as a starting point in aspiration to convey the audience the effect of infinite variability of everything. Such works as A Rainbow in the Curved Air, Sri Camel and this one (recorded as the soundtrack to the movie so little known that only few people saw it) are permeated with this feeling. The movie tells about fate of a man who voluntarily became blind, and you can easily imagine what a revolution in his mind it produces.
LSD was the way of understanding of certain revelations for many people, but any sufficiently powerful experience can have a similar, if not greater impact. After all, this isn't about the events themselves, but their impact on the individual. The Beatles sang about how a person cries because the sky is blue, Riley tells a story in which death of a friend turns into reborn for the main character. Any experience can be impressive enough to change a person's life. However, here lies the nature of reality - in the incessant variability, in the fluid, every second newness of existence. Only obsession can stop this movement, only running in circles. Terry Riley's music seems built from repetitions, but it is so infinitely variative, as brook water, as feathers or leaves on the tree. One only has to look carefully into each leaf to see infinity.
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Warner Bros. Records, 1972
Return to russian.
Always smiling uncle Riley is largely known for his In C and A Rainbow in the Curved Air works, and if first of them makes him one of the minimalism fathers, second means a lot for the modern music. In the Rainbow in the Curved Air Riley created basis for development of special new age music style - electronic psychedelia of acid experiences, interpreted as mystic or religious revelations. Not the last role was played by Timothy Leary's propaganda, but very sound and imagery was taken by "acid" new-age generation from Riley's music.
In one interview Terry said that LSD gives a person the opportunity to take a closer look at the world, to see it not just detailed, but fluid, endlessly changing. No doubt, this fluidity forms the basis and purpose of the music of most soulful of all American minimalists. Jazz harmonies and Indian ragas served as a starting point in aspiration to convey the audience the effect of infinite variability of everything. Such works as A Rainbow in the Curved Air, Sri Camel and this one (recorded as the soundtrack to the movie so little known that only few people saw it) are permeated with this feeling. The movie tells about fate of a man who voluntarily became blind, and you can easily imagine what a revolution in his mind it produces.
LSD was the way of understanding of certain revelations for many people, but any sufficiently powerful experience can have a similar, if not greater impact. After all, this isn't about the events themselves, but their impact on the individual. The Beatles sang about how a person cries because the sky is blue, Riley tells a story in which death of a friend turns into reborn for the main character. Any experience can be impressive enough to change a person's life. However, here lies the nature of reality - in the incessant variability, in the fluid, every second newness of existence. Only obsession can stop this movement, only running in circles. Terry Riley's music seems built from repetitions, but it is so infinitely variative, as brook water, as feathers or leaves on the tree. One only has to look carefully into each leaf to see infinity.
listen at vk.com
download
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