View basket “Ceremony: An Electronic Mass” has been added to your basket. 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 Gnoomes MU! 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