Steve Reich: Drumming++3lp box w/Cardew+Joan La Barbara

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Steve Reich: Drumming (1971 for 8 small tuned drums, 3 marimbas, 3 glockenspiels, male and female voices, whistling, and piccolo); Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ (1973); Six Pianos (1973)




Deutsche Grammophon 2740 106 Germany 1974 3LP Box Vinyl: nm, nm-, vg+ (the 2 Drumming disks are just about perfect while the last disc has some minor scuffing)
Cover: vg+ (light wear; a small tear on the right edge has been repaired with clear tape; both corners on the bottom seam are split; radio station stamp on front) Hard to find box set with a complete live performance of Drumming, Reich's epic study of phased polyrhythms, spanning 2 disks, plus 2 other early minimalism classics on the 3rd disk. The hypnotic and meditative Drumming is structured around a single basic rhythmic pattern (notation for which is provided in the notes) which gradually undergoes changes of phase position, pitch, and timbre; the vocalists are instructed to mimic the drum sounds. The recording was made at the premier performances of the piece at Town Hall in New York in December 1971, and features the playing of Reich, Joan La Barbara (this is her earliest appearance on record), Cornelius Cardew, and other figures from the New York minimalist and avant garde scene during that period. Includes extensively illustrated insert booklet.

Steve Reich studied with William Bergsma, Vincent Persichetti, Luciano Berio, and Darius Milhaud, and is associated with the late 20th century minimalism movement along with Philip Glass, La Monte Young, John Adams, Terry Riley, Charlemagne Palestine, Phill Niblock, and Tony Conrad. Cardew studied electronic music under Gottfried Michael Koenig, worked as an assistant to Karlheinz Stockhausen, also worked with Michael Parsons, Howard Skempton, and Mauricio Kagel, influenced Morton Feldman, Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars, Brian Eno, and Christopher Hobbs, and helped form improv groups AMM and the Scratch Orchestra. La Barbara is an experimental vocalist who studied under Helen Boatwright and is married to Morton Subotnick; she has worked with David Tudor, Phill Niblock, Robert Ashley, John Cage, Steve Reich, Jim Hall, Don Sebesky, Alvin Lucier, David Behrman, Merce Cunningham, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Kenneth Goldsmith, Judy Chicago, Lita Albuquerque, and James Tenney, and provided vocal sound effects for the Alien movies. Other references for these recordings: Pauline Oliveros, gamelan, Shri Swapan Chaudhuri, Ustad Alla Rakha, Pandit Pran Nath, Ravi Shankar. Check out my other auctions this week for more Reich, avant garde/experimental, early electronic/electroacoustic, free jazz/improv, 20th century classical, psych, minimalist, spoken word, sound effects/field recordings, and artist records. Shipping - US shipping is 4.20 for 1-2 single records by Media Mail, then 0.50 for each additional (Priority Mail, other expedited shipping options, and insurance are all available on request). International shipping for 1 12" lp to Western Europe/UK/Scandinavia is 8.00 surface or 13.00 air; to Japan/Taiwan/Australia is 8.00 surface or 14.50 air; to Canada by air is 7.00; other international destinations vary. 7" and 10" records will cost less; heavy box sets will cost more. Combine multiple items to save on shipping. Note: I can now offer international buyers the super-cheap M-Bag bulk mail rate for orders of 8 or more lps; to most destinations this starts at 21.50 for surface mail or 33.50 for air for up to 17 lps, a huge per-record savings over standard rates for smaller parcels! Feel free to email with any shipping questions. Payment - I prefer Paypal (which allows for fastest possible shipment) and also accept cash, money order (from US financial institutions only, including BidPay, US Postal, certified US bank check, etc., international bidders please take note!), and Western Union money transfer. If you are paying by Paypal and have won multiple items, please use a single Paypal payment. I will send an invoice email to all winners shortly after my auctions close, and another email after payment has been received to confirm item shipment. Packing - I pack professionally and with the utmost care drawn from years of experience trading vinyl internationally. I use new record mailers from Cameron Packaging (which I have determined are the best and most protective) reinforced with cardboard inserts and bubble wrap padding. All records are shipped with poly plastic sleeves. All packages are completely sealed with strong packing tape covering all openings. If you'd like your package done any differently, just let me know. Feel free to email me if you have any questions (need more info, want more pictures, etc.); you can use the 'ask seller a question' link above. My condition rating scale is -G+/-VG+/-EX+/-NM/M (only sealed records are M). Satisfaction guaranteed; if you have any problems with your order please contact me directly. Check out Ebay[track], my free realtime ebay auction tracker (currently in beta), which can refresh multiple auction statuses every second, alert you when bids are placed and when auctions end, let you place bids, and more. It's a useful tool for bidders, snipers, sellers, watchers... This item description is (c)opyright 2006 keymap records; please contact keymap records for permission before reproducing any text.