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Music For 18 Musicians – Steve Reich (LP, Vinyl Record Album)
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Music For 18 Musicians – Steve Reich (2xLP)

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  • The title sounds modest, but behind it lies one of the greatest understatements in the music scene: Music for 18 Musicians was the name given by the American composer Steve Reich to his work from 1976. Today, almost forty years later, it is one of the most famous examples of the minimal music style, which has had an enormous impact. Now the reference recording of this legendary composition is being released on vinyl - with Steve Reich and Musicians.

    The almost hour-long composition for various instruments and female voices combines everything that is so fascinating about Reich's minimal music style: The colorful phase shifting of individual chord sequences, whose technique the composer gained from studies of psychoacoustic experiments and influences of complex rhythms from Africa or Bali, among other things, the hypnotic time-stretching effects, superimpositions of several musical layers to create a new form of polyphony.
    The most prominent recording of the work, which is simply called the "Nonesuch version" in connoisseur circles, was made by Reich himself with a group of musicians. it won a Grammy Award in 1998 and influenced many musicians of the younger generation far beyond the boundaries of avant-garde classical music. Just last year, Reich surprised the music world with the album Radio Rewrite, for which he was inspired by the English band Radiohead, among others.

    Reviews
    Scala No. 6/1998: "Steve Reich and his band present a grandiose celebration of magical rhythms, strict sequencing and jazzy accents that is second to none unparalleled."

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  • Artist: Steve Reich
    Label: Nonesuch
    Format: LP
    Units: 2
    Country: UK, Europe & US
    Genre: Classical

  • A1 Pulses
    A2 Section I
    A3 Section Ii
    B1 Section Iiia
    B2 Section Iiib
    B3 Section Iv
    C1 Section V
    C2 Section Vi
    C3 Section Vii
    C4 Section Viii
    D1 Section Ix
    D2 Section X
    D3 Section Xi
    D4 Pulses