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Kronos Quartet / Pat Metheny / Steve Reich

Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint; Different Trains

Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint; Different Trains

UPC: 075597917628

Format: CD

Release Date: Nov 14, 2017

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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

Tracks:

1 - Different Trains, for double string quartet & tape~America - Before the war
2 - Different Trains, for double string quartet & tape~Europe - During the war
3 - Different Trains, for double string quartet & tape~After the war
4 - Electric Counterpoint, for electric guitar, bass guitar & tape~Fast
5 - Electric Counterpoint, for electric guitar, bass guitar & tape~Slow
6 - Electric Counterpoint, for electric guitar, bass guitar & tape~Fast