Reich: Different Trains, Electric Counterpoint / Kronos Quartet, Pat Metheny
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Composer: Steve ReichPerformer: Pat Metheny
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- America - Before the war
- Europe - During the war
- After the war
- Fast
- Slow
- Fast
Music reviews of Reich: Different Trains, Electric Counterpoint / Kronos Quartet, Pat Metheny
Music Review: Breathtaking and Emotional
Rating: 5 Stars
I heard "Before the War" in a Music class I was recently enrolled in. I thought the use of word painting to convey the sense of trains was fantastic, so i bought the album and checked it out. I hadn't head anything by Reich before, but I am so happy I bought this album.
It isn't for your casual listener. Don't expect to play this CD and hear a variety of melodies and arrangements. Different Trains uses minimalism to convey an experience that takes you through all aspects of World War II. The pieces also uses clips from interviews Reich conducted with people who lived through the times. At different times, Reich will sample these clips in the music, while the melody imitates. The second piece, During the War, immediately changes mood with its blaring sirens and darker overtones. The resolution, After the War, wraps it all up perfectly.
This is truly a remarkable album, and I recommend it for anybody who wants to experience an amazing story through deep music. Electric Counterpoint, while not as captivating as Trains, is also a fantastic piece to listen to alone with your eyes closed. Let this music overtake you.
Description of Reich: Different Trains, Electric Counterpoint / Kronos Quartet, Pat Metheny
Different Trains (1988) will probably go down in history as Reich's masterpiece. And deservedly so. Reich's phase-shifting minimalism is made dazzlingly entertaining in Different Trains, which is scored for string quartet and digitally sampled voices that repeat bits of speech concerning trains and Reich's experience with them growing up. The sinister part here is than some trains carried Jews to death camps. That's here as well. The Kronos Quartet has also never sounded better. Electric Counterpoint (1987) has one guitar--Pat Metheny in this case-- playing to 10 pre-recorded motifs, also on guitar. You absolutely need this. --Paul CookGeneral CDs
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