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| Differnet Trains - Electric Counterpoint | 
 enlarge | Label: Elektra/Nonesuch
Category: Music
Buy New: $69.98
Buy New/Used from $39.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 456399
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 700009791762
EAN: 0700009791762
ASIN: B000A28KFA
Publication Date: 1989
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Steve Reich "Different Trains"-Kronos Quartet-Electric Counterpoint -Pat Metheny////Different Trains :1. America-Before the war 8:592. Europe-During the war 7:313. After the war 10:20////Electric Counterpoint:4. Feel 6:515. Slow 3:216. Fast 4:29
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Review based on a typo ?? July 4, 2007
The actual title of the record is Different Trains - not Differnet Trains - and title is based on the trains that carried away the victims of the holocaust. Please, read any review under the correct title to get a true sense of what the music is about - and how it is one of Reich's most significant works.
Not your normal 'Squeek & Fart' Music March 1, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
QUICKLY: If you know the name 'Steve Reich' you probably already know about "minimalism," that repetitive kind of music that Terry Reilly, Phillip Glass, & Steve Reich tend to compose. By the way, those Composers HATE the label: "Minimalism." The Pat Metheney piece is very pleasant (for those who fear the hard-edges "minimalism" can sometimes have), & at times is more like the "Ambient" music of Brian Eno & Robert Fripp -- but with A LOT more conscious force -- and of course -- a healthy helping of great guitar work by Mr. Metheney.
The Steve Reich piece is pretty special. He's taken recordings of people talking about the hey-day of the Railroads in the U.S. -- and then taken the natural musicality of the WAY they spoke -- think "All-A-BOARD" & you get some idea -- and then used the musical phrasing of the recorded voices as the "minimalist" musical themes. It's all based on these recorded voices & HOW they say these things. Yeah, I know -- it sounds dry, boring and like something a bunch of soul-less Grad students would think up. HOWEVER -- it's actually pretty cool. It's like a musical travlogue, or the soundtrack to an Aural-documentary. It's really good. It's enjoyable, has some nice builds & bears repeated listenings.
If "miminalism" makes your skin crawl, the Metheny-piece won't hurt, but you'll only make it about 5 minutes into the Reich-piece.
Oh, and the Kronos Quartet? Yea, they're pretty good too. But you knew that.
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