Track Listing
Click tracks with speaker icon to listen| 1 | Come Out (1966) | 12:54 |
| 2 | Piano Phase (1967) | 20:26 |
| 3 | Clapping Music (1972) | 4:39 |
| 4 | It's Gonna Rain (1965): Part I | 7:49 |
| 5 | It's Gonna Rain (1965): Part II | 9:47 |
News & Reviews
- Monday, January 11, 2010
SF Chronicle: Steve Reich's Work Sounds "As Magical and Arresting As Ever"
Steve Reich joined So Percussion on stage in a performance of his 1972 work Clapping Music—"still one of his most audacious and breathtaking creations," says the San Francisco Chronicle—for a "marvelous" all-Reich program at Stanford. Featured were some of Reich's "groundbreaking percussion works" that sounded "as magical and arresting as ever," says the Chronicle, and the US premiere of Reich's Mallet Quartet. At the hands of the performers, said the Mercury News, it sounded "irresistible."
- Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Steve Reich Joins So Percussion for a Celebration of His Music, Premiere of New Work at Stanford
Steve Reich will join So Percussion in a performance of Clapping Music for an all-Reich program at Stanford University this Saturday. The concert, featuring the US premiere of Reich's latest piece, Mallet Quartet, is the culmination of a number of related events at Stanford this week, including a public conversation with Reich and Beryl Korot. The San Jose Mercury News calls it all "a welcome and rare opportunity for immersion in Reich's rhythmical realm."
About this Album
These groundbreaking pieces from the mid-‘60s / early ‘70s, which utilize tape loops and Reich’s pioneering “phasing” technique, not only inspired the minimalist movement but influenced generations of sound-sampling pop and electronic artists. The Washington Post calls them “absolutely spellbinding.”
Credits
MUSICIANS
Nurit Tilles, Edmund Niemann, pianos (2)
Russ Hartenberger, Steve Reich, hand claps (3)
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Judith Sherman and Steve Reich
Recorded May 1986 (2) and May 1987 (3) at RCA Studio A, New York City
Tracks 2, 3 mixed and edited by Steve Reich and Judith Sherman; engineered by Paul Goodman
Mastering: Robert C. Ludwig
Art direction and design: Carin Goldberg
Cover photograph by Landry/Girouard
Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz
