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Different Trains (1988) will probably go down in history as Reich's masterpiece. And deservedly so. Reich's phase-shifting minimalism is made dazzlingly entertaining in Different Trains, which is scored for string quartet and digitally sampled voices that repeat bits of speech concerning trains and Reich's experience with them growing up. The sinister part here is than some trains carried Jews to death camps. That's here as well. The Kronos Quartet has also never sounded better. Electric Counterpoint (1987) has one guitar--Pat Metheny in this case-- playing to 10 pre-recorded motifs, also on guitar. You absolutely need this. --Paul Cook
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Different Trains (1988) will probably go down in history as Reich's masterpiece. And deservedly so. Reich's phase-shifting minimalism is made dazzlingly entertaining in Different Trains, which is scored for string quartet and digitally sampled voices that repeat bits of speech concerning trains and Reich's experience with them growing up. The sinister part here is than some trains carried Jews to death camps. That's here as well. The Kronos Quartet has also never sounded better. Electric Counterpoint (1987) has one guitar--Pat Metheny in this case-- playing to 10 pre-recorded motifs, also on guitar. You absolutely need this. --Paul Cook
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Steve Reich est sans doute l'une des figures les plus originales, et aussi les plus douées, de la musique américaine contemporaine. Avec des motifs mélodiques et rythmiques obsessionnellement répétés et subtilement déphasés, il a écrit en 1988, pour le très brillant guitariste de jazz Pat Metheny, cette oeuvre troublante et lancinante, fondée sur le parallélisme entre deux "trains différents", un pullman de luxe traversant les Etats-Unis et un convoi de déportés roulant en direction d'Auschwitz... --Michel Marmin
