Comments on: Terry Riley, Procol Harum, Disco and Nederglam http://www.jonsavage.com/2009/04/23/terry-riley-disco-nederglam/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:14:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: m.mitchell http://www.jonsavage.com/2009/04/23/terry-riley-disco-nederglam/comment-page-1/#comment-22 m.mitchell Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:41:34 +0000 http://www.jonsavage.com/?p=1219#comment-22 Hi again Jon,thank you for the listing;I managed to cobble it together,although I think having the longer tracks fragments the listening experience somewhat.Enjoyed reading the Tapes very much,do you have more interviews with people from the No Wave scene?the Adele Bertei interview was fascinating;it has been a great time recently for reissues-,Beatles,Kraftwerk,Feelies-I thought the Joe Meek film was interesting too,his tragic demise was graphically portrayed in a very moving way. Hi again Jon,thank you for the listing;I managed to cobble it together,although I think having the longer tracks fragments the listening experience somewhat.Enjoyed reading the Tapes very much,do you have more interviews with people from the No Wave scene?the Adele Bertei interview was fascinating;it has been a great time recently for reissues-,Beatles,Kraftwerk,Feelies-I thought the Joe Meek film was interesting too,his tragic demise was graphically portrayed in a very moving way.

]]> By: jon http://www.jonsavage.com/2009/04/23/terry-riley-disco-nederglam/comment-page-1/#comment-13 jon Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:01:39 +0000 http://www.jonsavage.com/?p=1219#comment-13 Hi MM, thanks for kind comments. Here is tracklisting for EG Music For FIlms: it's hard to reconstitute on cd but I hope this helps:best js Side 1 Becalmed Deep Waters 'There Is Nobody' Spain Untitled The Last Door Chemin de Fer Dark Waters Sparrowfall 1 Sparrowfall 2 Sparrowfall 3 Evening Star Another Green World Side 2 In Dark Trees Fuseli Melancholy Waltz Northern Lights From The Coast Shell Little Fishes Empty Landscape Reactor The Secret Don't Look Back Marseilles Final Sunset Juliet Hi MM, thanks for kind comments. Here is tracklisting for EG Music For FIlms: it’s hard to reconstitute on cd but I hope this helps:best js

Side 1
Becalmed
Deep Waters
‘There Is Nobody’
Spain
Untitled
The Last Door
Chemin de Fer
Dark Waters
Sparrowfall 1
Sparrowfall 2
Sparrowfall 3
Evening Star
Another Green World

Side 2
In Dark Trees
Fuseli
Melancholy Waltz
Northern Lights
From The Coast
Shell
Little Fishes
Empty Landscape
Reactor
The Secret
Don’t Look Back
Marseilles
Final Sunset
Juliet

]]> By: m.mitchell http://www.jonsavage.com/2009/04/23/terry-riley-disco-nederglam/comment-page-1/#comment-12 m.mitchell Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:22:40 +0000 http://www.jonsavage.com/?p=1219#comment-12 Hi Again Jon,was wondering if you could help with discovering the original tracklisting for Eno's promotional Music for Films from 1976-I am trying to put together this out of interest for my own listening,and the tracks I have found would make it over an hour long!Surely too long for the days of vinyl-maybe the evening star tracks were truncated in some way.However it is possible,as Discreet Music had a running time of 30 minutes!Agree with you about the Crosby cd-one of the most awesomely beautiful lp's of the early 70's-almost like the equivalent of Bowies Low in Crosby's discography! Hi Again Jon,was wondering if you could help with discovering the original tracklisting for Eno’s promotional Music for Films from 1976-I am trying to put together this out of interest for my own listening,and the tracks I have found would make it over an hour long!Surely too long for the days of vinyl-maybe the evening star tracks were truncated in some way.However it is possible,as Discreet Music had a running time of 30 minutes!Agree with you about the Crosby cd-one of the most awesomely beautiful lp’s of the early 70′s-almost like the equivalent of Bowies Low in Crosby’s discography!

]]> By: m.mitchell http://www.jonsavage.com/2009/04/23/terry-riley-disco-nederglam/comment-page-1/#comment-7 m.mitchell Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:43:57 +0000 http://www.jonsavage.com/?p=1219#comment-7 Hi Jon,just discovered your site after a concentated devouring of the dreaming Tapes,I think Terry Riley never seems to get the acknowledgement he should for introducing minimalist ideas into the pop mainstream(e.g Roxy's 2hb)-I think hearing Rainbow at a local hippy festival in Alfreton Derbyshire at the age of 14( ! )really twisted my perceptual awareness-I had never heard anything so awesomely beautiful.A few years ago he did a revisiting of the piece on Radio 4 and it was just as knockout.His music seems more emotional and less cerebral than La Monte,who I also love,but his recordings are like the Ark of the flipping covenant to obtain!Riley's piece on the Happy Ending lp ''Music From the Death of a Friend'' is fantastic too-and that piece he did called 'Your'e Nogood' anticipates all the sampling malarkey by a good decade or so.He did a fantastic track with Matmos called Hashish Master,which I had to get on vinyl as it wasnt on the cd of Supreme Balloon.All Tommorrows Parties always makes me think of Riley,with the stuttering crystal piano lines. Hi Jon,just discovered your site after a concentated devouring of the dreaming Tapes,I think Terry Riley never seems to get the acknowledgement he should for introducing minimalist ideas into the pop mainstream(e.g Roxy’s 2hb)-I think hearing Rainbow at a local hippy festival in Alfreton Derbyshire at the age of 14( ! )really twisted my perceptual awareness-I had never heard anything so awesomely beautiful.A few years ago he did a revisiting of the piece on Radio 4 and it was just as knockout.His music seems more emotional and less cerebral than La Monte,who I also love,but his recordings are like the Ark of the flipping covenant to obtain!Riley’s piece on the Happy Ending lp ”Music From the Death of a Friend” is fantastic too-and that piece he did called ‘Your’e Nogood’ anticipates all the sampling malarkey by a good decade or so.He did a fantastic track with Matmos called Hashish Master,which I had to get on vinyl as it wasnt on the cd of Supreme Balloon.All Tommorrows Parties always makes me think of Riley,with the stuttering crystal piano lines.

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