- Audio CD (May 6 2008)
- SPARS Code: DDD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Elision Fields
- ASIN: B0012E87EE
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #144,197 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Another great release!,
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This review is from: Last Camel In Paris (Audio CD)
This is yet another release of Terry Riley's material from the "vaults". This one wasn't previously available and should be picked up by Riley fans. As the title suggests, the material is very "Shri Camel"-ish. That's not a bad thing in my book! I've listened just two times so far - about to start it again. The sound quality is great - no "scraping the bottom of the barrel" for a release here. This is top notch archive material. If I sound overly enthusiastic, well that's because I love this type of re-issues. Elision Fields is really doing a nice job with the packaging and the remastering. Like "Les Yeux Fermes/Lifespan", the disc is housed in an attractive digipack. I'll happily buy any Terry Riley re-issue so please keep them coming!About the music itself, well after just two listens I can't tell you much. Like a lot of Riley's best stuff there are lots of layers. If you like "Shri Camel" you'll love this one.
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A Snowstorm of Icy Beauty,
By Steven Moore - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Last Camel In Paris (Audio CD)
Where has this been all my life? If it had been released after it was recorded in 1978, I could have enjoyed 30 years of aesthetic bliss. But better late than never. Similar to the music on his "Shri Camel" album (1980), this is a single, 54-minute improvisation. It's a beguiling mixture of Middle Eastern and Western modes, as though an Indian sitarist somehow mastered a Renaissance organ (with just intonation) and let a raga unfurl. I pictured snow falling outside my window, and can't wait to listen to it in winter. And please, if there are any more old tapes like this floating around, release them!
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Minimalist Masterwork Realized Live,
By directions "neuralbuddhist" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Last Camel In Paris (Audio CD)
The somewhat awkward title "Last Camel in Paris" refers to the Terry Riley masterwork "Shri Camel" here played live (or an interpretation of it, among the minimalists Terry Riley always relied on improvisation and had some grounding in jazz) in 1978. As usual, Terry Riley plays a modified electric organ which is in just intonation and the concert brings out the tonalities in it. If you are a fan of classic minimalism, this would be an excellent purchase though for the casual listener who has not gotten into minimalism yet, in the way of Terry Riley, "In C" or "A Rainbow in Curved Air" or of course "Shri Camel" might be a first listen but "Last Camel in Paris" is not to be discounted and for a live concert recording its completely listenable and has more of a psychedelic trance like feel than most minimalism which although excellent has a more clinical feel similar to Bach's harpsichord works which of course are essential works in the classical cadre but less "warm" than the soundscapes Terry Riley creates. Minimalism, which has by now passed its peak in creativity, although not in influence, is continuing to expand with Terry Riley and Philip Glass unearthing lost works, some of which are quite good and some are masterworks of which "Last Camel in Paris" falls in the latter.
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