Reed Streams

by Terry Riley

Reed Streams cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1967
  • Label: Mass Art
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:04:30
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A groundbreaking early minimalist composition employing primitive tape loops and process-oriented performance techniques. The hypnotic, phasing patterns of the electronic organ and soprano saxophone profoundly influenced the subsequent development of ambient and experimental electronic music.

Genres

Descriptors: Leftfield, avant-garde, instrumental, repetitive, dissonant, lo-fi, atonal, minimal, long-form, experimental, electronic, droning, analog

Tracklist

  1. Untitled Organ (20:07)
  2. Dorian Reeds (14:56)
  3. In C - Mantra (29:26)

Credits

  • Terry Riley - primary artist, composed by
  • Helen Burke - design [jacket design]
  • Warner Jepson - photography by, photography
  • Tom Recchion - design
  • Walter Boudreau - licensor, liner notes
  • Fredrik Nilsen - photography
  • Gary Todd - producer

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