Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint Steve Reich

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  • Release Date: 10/25/1990
  • Original Release: 1989
  • Sales Rank: 44,867
  • Label: NONESUCH
  • UPC: 075597917628

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Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint

1LISTENDifferent Trains (America- Before the War) / Kronos Quartet 8:59
2LISTENDifferent Trains (Europe- During the War) / Kronos Quartet 7:31
3LISTENDifferent Trains (After the War) / Kronos Quartet 10:20
4LISTENElectric Counterpoint (Fast) / Pat Metheny 6:51
5LISTENElectric Counterpoint (Slow) / Pat Metheny 3:21
6LISTENElectric Counterpoint (Fast) / Pat Metheny 4:29

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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, All Music Guide

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