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During a residency as a Fellow at DAAD in Berlin, Riley fine-tuned the delay speeds and experimented with different stereo combinations so that by the time of this Paris concert, the tape delays worked well with the tempos he was using. This all came on the heels of the Shri Camel recording Riley had just made in San Francisco for CBS. The musical materials of The Last Camel in Paris are second generational, belonging to the Shri Camel family while manifesting their own distinct shape and flavor.

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This first-ever CD release of these two classic Terry Riley soundtracks-- both on one disc-- was remastered from the original tapes, the hypnotic songs sounding far superior to the below-average vinyl pressings. Having brought the '60s Corti archive back into print, Elision Fields now turns its attention to the under-examined crucial period of Riley's work-- the '70s.

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Journey From The Death Of A Friend
Happy Ending
G Song
M - Music I - Inside C - Curved E-Entrances
Slow Melody In Bhairavi
In The Summer
The Oldtimer
Delay

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The Gift music was performed in Paris 1963 by Chet Baker, with tape manipulations by Riley-- the first use of tape delay to fragment, attenuate, and return time, looping tape through twin-tape recorders. The Gift recordings, referred to often by Soft Machine members, is the precursor to the landmark that launched the minimalist movement In C.

"Bird of Paradise" is a radical tape-manipulation work, the earliset known plundering that inspired Steve Reich's "It's Gonna Rain"-era phase recordings.

"Mescalin Mix" is a tape-loop recording from 1960-62, partly inspired by Riley's experience with mescalin and the work he did with Richard Maxfield. For this recording, the tape-loops extended out Riley's window to a wine-bottle spindle in the yard; it was composed for choreographer Anna Halprin's The Three-Legged Stool.

Concert for Two Pianos and Five Tape Recorders was recorded live at Hertz Hall on the UC Berkeley campus in 1960 with a humorous broadcast narrative/play-by-play by Glenn Glasow. It was performed by Riley and La Monte Young.

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Music for the Gift (part 1)
Music for the Gift (part 2)
Music for the Gift (part 3)
Music for the Gift (part 4)
Music for the Gift (part 5)
Bird of Paradise (part 1)
Bird of Paradise (part 2)
Bird of Paradise (part 3)
Bird of Paradise (part 4)
Bird of Paradise (part 5)
Mescalin Mix
Concerto for Two Pianists and Five Tape Recorders

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Purple
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Strobe
Ecstasy

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. The first movement is the most classical in form and content opening with a piano solo that leads to the opening theme. After variations on the opening them the driving secondary subject is introduced and then combined with the opening theme. There follows more secondary themes that lead into the spacious Chorale from which the movement derives its name. Then follows a piano cadenza that leads to the eastern sounding coda, which concludes the movement. The Maze is a labyrinthine movement based on polymetric patterns that float over a 17 beat rhythmic cycle, scored in an open way to allow the ensemble choices on how to assemble the flow of the music.

Goodbye Goodtimes Blues for Millennium s Child is Riley's one Millennium piece, feeling fortunate to be one of those having a foot in both the 20th and 21st centuries... The inspiration was to create an old time blues tune, reminiscent of the music of the 20s and 30s that gives way to a more hard core version of 21st century blues showing how this old American Raga is capable of so many expressions as it crosses over this imaginary time marker. This movement is open to large sections of improvisation. Danzero, a made-up name for a movement with south American flavoring. It is the concluding movement containing shifting rhythms and tempos combining the tunefulness of Brazilian Choros superimposed on compound and polyrhythmic structures. Toward the end of the movement there are many improvised solos over the Latin groove that impels the highly energized ending.

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