Tehillim
by Steve Reich
- Type: Album
- Released: 6 September 1982
- Label: ECM
- Country: United States
- Length: 29:52
- Community rating: 3.77/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Representing a major transition in the composer's stylistic evolution, 'Tehillim' utilizes Hebrew psalms as its foundation, directly influencing the music's fluid rhythmic structure rather than imposing rigid patterns. It eschews the strictly repetitive phasing of earlier works in favor of extended melodies and expansive vocal harmonies, heavily informed by traditional Jewish cantillation.
Genres
Descriptors: repetitive, rhythmic, complex, judaic, dissonant, long-form, unconventional, avant-garde
Tracklist
- Parts I & II (17:25)
- Parts III & IV (12:27)
Credits
- George Manahan - conductor
- Edmund Niemann - organ [electric organs]
- Nurit Tilles - organ [electric organs]
- Bob Becker - percussion, tambourine [tuned tambourines (without jingles)], handclaps [clapping], maracas, marimba, vibraphone, crotales
- Garry Kvistad - percussion, tambourine [tuned tambourines (without jingles)], handclaps [clapping], maracas, marimba, vibraphone, crotales
- Gary Schall - percussion, tambourine [tuned tambourines (without jingles)], handclaps [clapping], maracas, marimba, vibraphone, crotales
- Glen Velez - percussion, tambourine [tuned tambourines (without jingles)], handclaps [clapping], maracas, marimba, vibraphone, crotales
- Russ Hartenberger - percussion, tambourine [tuned tambourines (without jingles)], handclaps [clapping], maracas, marimba, vibraphone, crotales