Steve Reich – Four Organs / Phase Patterns [LP] Musique Concrète / Sound Collage the spirit of Ballads roams

the spirit of Ballads roams through generations of affectionate songwriting and conjures images both candid and surreal

a unique percussive instrument

fleshing out guitar-based composition with electronics

Fans of Norwegian black metal will recognize the Kittelsen art from several Burzum album covers

A very specific kind of animal

Steve Reich – Four Organs / Phase Patterns [LP] Musique Concrète / Sound Collage the spirit of Ballads roams"Steve Reich remains one of the most important figures in 20th century music. Though he studied at the prestigious arts institutions Julliard and Mills College, by the mid 1960s Reich set about dismantling the very orthodoxy that he had been trained in. Forming a new musical language based on repetitive processes, Reich became established as part of the so called Big Four of New York minimalists (along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley and Philip