Steve Reich ?Drumming Music For Mallet Instr Voices Organ Six Piano 3LP 1974 DGG

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Steve Reich

Drumming / Music For Mallet Instruments Voices And Organ / Six Pianos

3LP Box Set German Pressing

Deutsche Grammophon 2740_106 3LP Box Set 1974 (Germany)

Allmusic:  This three-LP set, released on Deutsche Grammophon in 1974, is arguably the pinnacle of minimalism. Along with Terry Riley's In C and perhaps Glass' early piano music, Drumming defined the essential component of this new form of music: a transparent process that could imperceptibly lead to bewildering complexity. Crucially, Reich added an extra ingredient: rhythms derived from his studies of West African drumming, giving the work an inherent vitality sometimes missing from his contemporaries. Drumming is a 75-minute piece laid out in four sections, one apiece for small tuned drums (played with mallets), marimbas, and glockenspiels, ending with a combination of all three plus the addition of voices mimicking the percussion. Beginning with a single struck drum, notes are added little by little, apparently simply filling the voids between them but, almost before the listener realizes it, suddenly being heard as new rhythmic patterns themselves, taking on a miraculously shifting guise. One can virtually choose to hear any of a number of rhythms depending on how one organizes the sounds in one's head. Indeed, Reich allowed his musicians to "discover" various rhythms for themselves and accent them accordingly. The process is fairly similar in each section, the palette changing from the beautifully resonant drums to the luscious marimbas to glockenspiels, the massed character of which add an extra element: ringing overtones. In Drumming, Reich arrived at the perfect combination of intellectual rigor and corporeal sensuousness, neither side predominating, both in clear and glorious presence. Six Pianos applies approximately the same strategies to multiple keyboards to intriguing, if ultimately less successful, effect. Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ is a preliminary step down the path Reich would take in coming years, using longer melodic lines and a looser, more expansive rhythmic system. Very beautiful in and of itself, one can't help but think that the composer really made his major statement earlier, in Drumming, and that much of what would follow would be elaboration on those basic ideas. As of 2002, this set had not been issued on disc, although Drumming was given a fine re-recording on Nonesuch in the late 80's. Still, the palpable sense of excitement on the part of the amazing musicians involved (interestingly enough, including the British composer Cornelius Cardew) is impossible to duplicate and Reich fans owe it to themselves to search out the original. This is a monumentally profound and important recording.

Tracklist
Drumming
A Part I
Drums [Small Tuned Drums] – Bob Becker, James Preiss, Russ Hartenberger
24:58
B Part II
Marimba – Ben Harms, Bob Becker, Cornelius Cardew, Glen Velez, Russ Hartenberger, Steve Chambers, Steve Reich, Tim Ferchen
Voice – Jay Clayton, Joan LaBarbara
25:45
C Part III
Glockenspiel – Bob Becker, Glen Velez, James Preiss, Russ Hartenberger
Piccolo Flute – Leslie Scott
Whistling – Steve Reich
15:32
D Part IV
Drums [Small Tuned Drums] – Steve Chambers, Steve Reich, Tim Ferchen
Glockenspiel – Ben Harms, Cornelius Cardew, James Preiss
Marimba – Bob Becker, Glen Velez, Russ Hartenberger
Piccolo Flute – Leslie Scott
Voice – Jay Clayton, Joan LaBarbara
18:56
Six Pianos
E Six Pianos
Piano – Bob Becker, Glen Velez, James Preiss, Russ Hartenberger, Steve Chambers, Steve Reich
24:05
Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ
F Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ
Glockenspiel – Ben Harms, Glen Velez
Marimba – Bob Becker, Russ Hartenberger, Steve Reich, Tim Ferchen
Organ [Electric] – Steve Chambers
Percussion [Metallophone] – James Preiss
Voice – Janice Jarrett, Joan LaBarbara
Voice [Melodic Patterns With Marimbas] – Jay Clayton
18:30

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Polydor International GmbH

Composed By – Steve Reich
Engineer [Balance] – Gerhard Henjes, Klaus Hiemann
Performer – Steve Reich And Musicians
Producer – Dr. Rudolf Werner

Recorded in Hamburg (Rahlstedt), Musikstudio 1, January 1974.
The box set has catalogue number as above. Each of the records have their own catalogue number:
Disc 1: 2563 301
Disc 2: 2563 302
Disc 3: 2563 303

Three vinyl discs are NEAR MINT, in plastic-lined paper inner sleeves in a hard card picture box in EXCELLENT condition with 20-page booklet