A Rainbow in Curved Air

by Terry Riley

A Rainbow in Curved Air cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1969
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 40:18
  • Community rating: 3.99/5 from 11 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Utilizing groundbreaking overdubbing techniques to layer complex electronic organs and harpsichords, Terry Riley created a wildly influential masterpiece of minimalist composition. 'A Rainbow in Curved Air' is profoundly meditative and intensely hypnotic, weaving remarkably warm, highly uplifting instrumental patterns into a beautifully futuristic, deeply atmospheric psychedelic drone.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, atmospheric, repetitive, minimal, improvisation, electronic, improvisational, long-form

Tracklist

  1. A Rainbow in Curved Air (18:39)
  2. Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band (21:38)

Credits

  • Terry Riley - primary artist, liner notes, electric organ, electric harpsichord, keyboards [rocksichord], goblet drum [dumbec], tambourine, soprano saxophone, electric organ
  • John Berg - artwork [front cover montage], task artwork
  • Glen Kolotkin - engineer
  • Roy Segal - engineer
  • Virginia Team - illustration [back cover illustration], illustration
  • David Behrman - producer

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