Different Trains; Electric Counterpoint
by Steve Reich / Kronos Quartet / Pat Metheny
- Type: Album
- Released: 3 March 1989
- Label: Nonesuch
- Country: United States
- Length: 41:43
- Community rating: 4.26/5 from 5 ratings
Artists on this release: Kronos Quartet, Pat Metheny
Album Notes & Community Reviews
This monumental recording pairs two deeply impactful Steve Reich compositions: a hypnotic, multi-tracked guitar performance by Pat Metheny, and the Holocaust-focused 'Different Trains' performed by the Kronos Quartet. The album utilizes highly repetitive, minimalist phrasing and early speech-sampling techniques to construct a deeply atmospheric, historical meditation.
Genres
Descriptors: war, repetitive, sampling, minimalistic, history, atmospheric, uncommon-time-signatures, minimal, long-form, chamber, orchestral, strings, spoken-word, virtuosic
Tracklist
Credits
- Steve Reich - primary artist, composed by, liner notes
- Kronos Quartet - primary artist
- Pat Metheny - primary artist, guitar
- Frank Olinsky - art direction, design
- Manhattan Design - art direction, design
- Joan Jeanrenaud - cello [kronos quartet]
- Betty Freeman - commissioned by
- Jennifer Keats - coordinator [production]
- Karl Steinbrenner - cover [cover photography], photography by [cover photography]
- Les Brockmann - engineer
- Rob Eaton - engineer, mixed by [mixing engineer]
- Gary Solomon - engineer [assistant]
- Michael Ahearn - engineer [assistant]
- Robert Hurwitz - executive-producer
- Bob Ludwig - mastered by
- Ben Fowler - mixed by [assistant mixing engineer]
- Judith Sherman - producer [produced by]
- David Oakes - producer [production assistant]
- Hank Dutt - viola [kronos quartet]
- David Harrington - violin [kronos quartet]
- John Sherba - violin [kronos quartet]
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