Persian Surgery Dervishes Terry Riley SKU: SSH004DLP Barcode: 769791966505 36.00 £36.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Shandar Released Date: 14th June 2017 Buying Format: 180g 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info This classic minimal music album is now available again on vinyl for the first time since the 70s. By the early 70s Riley had come to feel that scores were a distraction. Faithful interpretation of an already written piece was a deviation from the true purpose of making music, which was spiritual quest. Fortunately, some of those live performances, personal journeys towards a state of transcendence, were captured on tape. Persian Surgery Dervishes, issued initially on the French label Shandar, features two such concerts for electric organ and reel-to-reel delay, one recorded in Los Angeles on 18th April 1971, the other in Paris on 24th May 1972. At the start of that decade Riley became a dedicated student of the great Hindustani singer Pandit Pran Nath. Looking into North Indian classical tradition he found correspondences to modal and cyclic ideas that he was already working on. In 1971, as a way to learn more, Riley himself started teaching Indian music at Mills College, in Oakland. That experience fed directly into his solo keyboard performances, but other influences were also shaping the music heard on Persian Surgery Dervishes. Personal research into ancient Persian culture and the poetry of Rumi lit up his imagination, while the repetitive swirling of Sufi devotional music from North Africa, which Riley had first encountered in Europe during the early 60s, reverberates through these performances. Jazz, as conceived by such masters such as Bill Evans and John Coltrane, is also present as an enduring source of inspiration. The Californian version of Persian Surgery Dervishes starts with low dark tones, dense and brooding like a huddled human figure, deep in introspection. But as the improvisation unfolds Riley’s buoyant spirit asserts itself, spiralling out in ecstatic coils, as though liberated from the grip of body consciousness. The Parisian concert conveys a different mood, brighter and more open in texture, more relaxed from the outset and breathing with greater freedom as it takes flight. Artist Terry Riley Genre Leftfield / Experimental Label Shandar Buying Options 180g 2LP Format 180g , 2LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings A Performance One 20:45 B Performance One 22:00 C Performance Two 25:00 D Performance Two 22:45 Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Terry Riley and more from Leftfield / Experimental View Product Quick View Terry Riley A Rainbow In Curved Air Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 19th April 2019 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Terry Riley A Rainbow In Curved Air £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVCL046C Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 19th April 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Terry Riley In C Leftfield / Experimental | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 4th January 2019 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Terry Riley In C £22.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVCL039 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 4th January 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wolf Eyes Slicer Electronica | Orion Read | 1LP Released 11th September 2015 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wolf Eyes Slicer £16.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Orion Read SKU: OR-14LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th September 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View No Means No In The Fishtank Leftfield / Experimental | In The Fishtank | 1LP Released 17th February 2014 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders No Means No In The Fishtank £16.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: In The Fishtank SKU: FISH1LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th February 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Phil Julian Trace Leftfield / Experimental | Harbinger Sound | 1LP Released 5th January 2015 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Phil Julian Trace £14.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Harbinger Sound SKU: HARBINGER080 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th January 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Suzanne Ciani Buchla Concerts 1975 Electronica | Finders Keepers | 1LP Released 21st July 2016 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Suzanne Ciani Buchla Concerts 1975 £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Finders Keepers SKU: FKR082LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Spooky Tooth / Pierre Henry Ceremony: An Electronic Mass Electronica | Island | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 24th June 2021 £30.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Spooky Tooth / Pierre Henry Ceremony: An Electronic Mass £30.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Island SKU: nn225707 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 24th June 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Fire She Sleeps, She Sleeps Leftfield / Experimental | Rune Grammofon | 1LP Released 5th February 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fire She Sleeps, She Sleeps £17.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Rune Grammofon SKU: RLP3178 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Venetian Snares My Love Is A Bulldozer Leftfield / Experimental | Planet Mu Records Ltd | 2LP Released 16th June 2014 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Venetian Snares My Love Is A Bulldozer £17.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Planet Mu Records Ltd SKU: ZIQ350 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 16th June 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Anneli Drecker Revelation For Personal Use Leftfield / Experimental | Rune Grammofon | 1LP Released 19th May 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Anneli Drecker Revelation For Personal Use £19.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Rune Grammofon SKU: RLP3191 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 19th May 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Faust 71 Minutes Leftfield / Experimental | ReR | 180g, 2LP Released 8th December 2017 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Faust 71 Minutes £23.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: ReR SKU: RERVF1DLP Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 8th December 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Helen Money and Will Thomas Trace Leftfield / Experimental | Thrill Jockey | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 12th May 2023 £31.00 - £32.00 Select options Helen Money and Will Thomas Trace £31.00 - £32.00 Genre: Leftfield / Experimental Label: Thrill Jockey Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th May 2023 Read More Select options See more in Leftfield / Experimental Start again
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