Terry Riley:Persian Surgery Dervishes 2lp Shandar avant

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Terry Riley: Persian Surgery Dervishes (1971 for electric organ and feedback system). Shanti (Shandar) 83.501-2

Circa 1972 French double album with two live performances by the composer of this partially improvised minimalist masterpiece. Riley plays hypnotic rhythmic lines on his just intonation-microtuned organ as he controls his tape delay system to create layer upon layer of jazzy drones and washes of looping tones. This was issued by the great Shandar label (curiously renamed Shanti just for this release) founded by the Maeght Foundation art gallery and legendary for its releases of early minimalism and free jazz (Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, etc.).

Terry Riley was influenced by John Coltrane and John Cage, pioneered realtime tape-delay feedback systems, collaborated with Pandit Pran Nath and John Cale of the Velvet Underground, and is associated with the late 20th century 'minimalism' movement involving repetition and just intonation along with Philip Glass, classmate La Monte Young, John Adams, Steve Reich, Charlemagne Palestine, Phil Niblock, and Tony Conrad. More references for this lp: Pauline Oliveros, Salvatore Martirano, Miles Davis, Ravi Shankar, Alan Watts, Teo Macero, Rhys Chatham, Alvin Lucier...

Vinyl Condition: ex, vg+
Cover Condition: ex- (light wear, some lamination bubbling on front)

I have another Riley lp for sale. Check out my other auctions this week for more avant garde/experimental, early electronic/electroacoustic/synthesizer, 20th century classical, minimalism, free jazz, psych, and space age pop.











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