[NewMusic] coasting?

[Michael Zelner]

On 12/19/06, Matt Davignon wrote:

>Many "groundbreaking" pieces of work have already been in the musical
>lexicon since they came out. Sometimes it's a little underwhelming to hear
>the original, genius work after hearing all the music that's been built on
>those ideas. A good example of this is hearing Terry Riley's "Poppy Nogood
>and the Phantom Band" after hearing the 38 years of music that used
>real-time sampling since then.

Just noticed this in the SFBG's "The year in music" issue:

>Alexis Georgopoulos's top 10 (and then some)
>A year when the most interesting things, to these ears, were often 
>reissues - and old recordings issued for the first time.
>
>Terry Riley, Poppy Nogood, and the Phantom Band, All Night Flight 
>(Elison Fields). If Steve Reich and Philip Glass were the star faces 
>of minimalism and La Monte Young was the talented megalomaniac, 
>Riley was the movement's cosmic seer, its burning-star core. This 
>solo performance - culled from a 1968 show at SUNY Buffalo and 
>featuring Riley on organ, live tape loops, and saxophone - never 
>fails to burn new, effervescent trails in my mind.

<http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=2328>


One man's meat. . .

MZ



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