スティーヴ・ライヒ: ディファレント・トレインズ、エレクトリック・カウンターポイント＜完全限定生産盤＞

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This late-'80s work finds the minimalist composer mixing acoustic and taped material to great effect. The disc's centerpiece is "Different Trains," a work that frames Reich's impressions of his boyhood train trips between his mother in Los Angeles and his father in New York; Reich also intersperses references to the much more harrowing train rides Jews were forced to take to Nazi concentration camps. Using the fine playing of the Kronos Quartet as a base, Reich layers the work with the taped train musings of his governess, a retired Pullman porter, and various Holocaust survivors -- vintage train sounds from the '30s and '40s add to the riveting arrangement. And for some nice contrast, Reich recruits guitarist Pat Metheny to create a similarly momentous piece in "Electric Counterpoint" (Metheny plays live over a multi-tracked tape of ten guitars and two electric basses). Two fine works by Reich in his prime. ~ Stephen Cook

【曲目】
スティーヴ・ライヒ:
1) 『ディファレント・トレインズ』
2) 『エレクトリック・カウンターポイント』

【演奏】
1) クロノス・クァルテット、 2) パット・メセニー(ギター)

【録音】
1) 1988年8月31日-9月9日、サンフランシスコ、Russian Hill Recording
2) 1987年9月26日-10月1日、ニューヨーク、Power Station