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Topic: Terry Riley
Posted By: jean-marie
Subject: Terry Riley
Date Posted: April 19 2011 at 18:12
this is a seat where prog music comes from, this is the seat where  Soft Machine Third and Six come from or Tangerine dream with Ricochet and Rubicon and don't talk me about in C these are the two i choose



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Posted By: Hawkwise
Date Posted: April 19 2011 at 18:44
poppy for me always loved that album good in the headphones i like sampling it toEvil Smile 

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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: April 19 2011 at 23:19
I have/know only poppy so I can't vote.

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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: April 20 2011 at 09:27
Why isn't In C on there?

Where's In C?


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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: April 20 2011 at 10:07
Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Why isn't In C on there?

Where's In C?   LOL  In C stayed at home, he turned paranoid because to much poeple talked too many times about him


Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: April 20 2011 at 13:10
I'm voting In C.

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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: April 20 2011 at 13:16
Big smile If it pleases you i don't worry.......and i'll do more , think i'll try to give one spin more to it.......


Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: April 20 2011 at 15:34
More than one hundred guies had a look at this poll but only three answered, what the problem with you? Confused LOL


Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: April 21 2011 at 20:02
DisapproveSo 133 poeples had a look at this poll and only 3 answered? what 's the problem with you all on PA?are you tired about music?UnhappyThumbs Down


Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: April 22 2011 at 11:54
There's not that many Riley fans here who have gone past In C and A Rainbow Curved in Air. 

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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 22 2011 at 11:55
Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

DisapproveSo 133 poeples had a look at this poll and only 3 answered? what 's the problem with you all on PA?are you tired about music?UnhappyThumbs Down


Maybe because not enough people know or recognise what you're talking about  even if they are interested in Terry Riley.  It might have helped if you'd offered more information in your opening post, and perhaps music samples.

Speaking for myself, and I checked this before:  I love music by Terry Riley and was very keen on his addition to PA.  Of his albums, I really like  A Rainbow In Curved Air, Persian Surgery Dervishes, Shri Camel and In C.

If you mean the track "Poppy Nogood And The Phantom Band" off of A Rainbow in Curved Air and the track "Happy Ending" off of the album Happy Ending, I don't know Happy Ending.

 You've  vaguely expressed yourself, as you could be comparing the live album called Poppy Nogood... with the album Happy Ending.  I had to look up Riley to aid this post, by the way.

And I'm sure that quite a few, like me, will check threads even if they are unfamiliar with the topic -- that's one way I discover music.


Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: April 25 2011 at 17:46
Ok Embarrassed


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 30 2011 at 19:53
Poppy Nogood, I guess. 


Posted By: brainstormer
Date Posted: May 01 2011 at 06:28
I agree Terry Riley is a pivotal figure in modern music.
My favorite by "Riley is A Rainbow in Curved Air."  I still think it's ahead of its time.
I just discovered "Persian Surgery Dervishes," which is a similar style work I like.

As far as Tangerine Dream and other aspects of music like Soft Machine,
I don't think Terry Riley really originated the entire direction of these things
in particular, I think it was just becoming more dominant in the world and he was sensitive to it.  Others were coming up with similar styles around that time.  Eastern music was an influence of many even before Riley (see Alan Hovahness).  John Cage was doing minimalism, and there were many other composers
that were doing things that were similar to minimalism many years before, like Henry Cowell
and Harry Partch (who was much older than Riley, being born in 1901).  I think people like
Riley put a sonic element into these things that made them sound more like pop music.

I know you are not saying anything about the lack of value of the other music you quoted.  I do think Tangerine Dream put a lot of original ideas into their music and that just because some elements are similar to Riley, that people like Riley overshadow the importance of Tangerine Dream or Soft Machine. 



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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: May 01 2011 at 06:42
I just meant ther's a link between Riley and all those using the cyclic way like TD and SM but anyway your comment is very interresting


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 02 2011 at 13:50
Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

I just meant ther's a link between Riley and all those using the cyclic way like TD and SM but anyway your comment is very interresting


Are you big fan of Terry Riley?  I'm a total newbie to his work; I just got "Rainbow In Curved Air" and I love it.  What other albums of his should I get next?


Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: May 02 2011 at 14:00
haven't got the whole stuff but among the ones i know , i would say, try the double live one, Persian surgery dervishes, but i need to check out further releases and ther's a lot Smile


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 02 2011 at 14:06
^ Thanks! I'll look into those next.



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