Composer: Steve Reich, Performer: Steve Reich Ensemble - Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
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Music CD Cover Artist: Composer: Steve Reich, Performer: Steve Reich Ensemble Edition: Music CD Format: Original recording reissued CD Release Date: 2000-04-18 Music Label: Ecm Records Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians Album
Free Music Review: Vital
Hit: 5 Stars
I remember in 1979 watching on TV the concert film that accompanied the release of this LP. I simply had to go out and buy the record the next day. For me it somehow seemed to be the next extrapolation in a sequence that started with Mike Oldfield's TUBULAR BELLS and continued with Tangerine Dream's RICOCHET.Mind you, the girlfriend I was staying with found it intensely irritating. My wife's reaction has always been similar. I know professional musicians who find Reich's music both extremely demanding and frustrating to play. My children cannot believe that anyone would listen to Steve Reich's music out of choice!
It's impossible to sit on the fence about Reich's music. Me, I just love it. My LP got terribly worn, so it was a godsend when this CD version was released. It is the better of the two versions I own -- I also have the Nonesuch edition -- even though the sound quality is not as good and the CD consists of just a single track. The key reason for owning this version, apart from its place in music history, is that the piano on the best section (which starts around 26:00) is much more dominant in the mix than on the Nonesuch edition.
As others have written here, this is fantastic driving music, and it would certainly be in my Top Ten of CDs to take to a desert island. Wonderfully hypnotic trance music. Everyone ought to have a copy, but Amazon has made it difficult to find, hiding it in 'Classical Music' and not even filing it under 'Steve Reich'.