TERRY RILEY "A Rainbow In Curved Air" 1st UK PRESS NM

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  TERRY RILEY "A Rainbow In Curved Air" 1st UK PRESS NM ORIGINAL UK RELEASE OF RILEY'S INFLUENTIAL 1967 WORK
TERRY RILEY
A Rainbow In Curved Air
Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band

Both pieces are performed in their entirety by Terry Riley

ORIGINAL CBS RECORDS (S 64564) FIRST UK PRESSING (1971) OF TERRY RILEY'S HUGELY INFLUENTIAL MASTERPIECE "A Rainbow In Curved Air" FIRST PERFORMED IN 1967
THIS COPY IS IN STUNNING CONDITION - I DON'T THINK IT HAS EVER BEEN PLAYED - THERE ARE NO SPINDLE MARKS ON THE LABELS AND THE VINYL SURFACES ARE COMPLETELY UNMARKED AND SHINE LIKE NEW - FANTASTIC COPY
OFTEN CREDITED AS HAVING AN IMPACT ON MIKE OLDFIELD WHO CITES "RAINBOW" AS AN INSPIRATION FOR "TUBULAR BELLS" (ALTHOUGH IT SOUNDS NOTHING LIKE IT) AND PETE TOWNSHEND FOR THE SYNTHESISER PARTS ON "Won't Get Fooled Again" AND "Baba O'Riley", WITH THE LATTER TRACK NAME CHECKING RILEY HIMSELF

PRESSED WITH THE FIRST CBS ORANGE LABELS
MATRIX: S 64564 A1 / S 64564 B1
THE LP IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT SLEEVE PRINTED BY “Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., England”
AND COMES COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL CBS ADVERTISING INNER SLEEVE ("UK POP1 INNER SLEEVE", "MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN")

To quote David Toop from his excellent book "Ocean of Sound":
"In their search for absolutes, a number of music critics have looked to Riley as the definitive starting point for various trends: minimalism, extreme repetition, all-night trance improvisations and tape-delay systems. Pieces such as In C, A Rainbow In Curved Air, and Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band were important in their time because they signalled two important changes in the way the worlds of music and commerce worked.
One: a composer was writing pieces which had grooves and improvised around modes (just like John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Frank Zappa and half the rock bands in Psychedelia), which sounded as if psychotropics had been involved at some stage of the compositional process, which explored new technology and studio processing.
Two: the albums were packaged by Columbia as rock albums, so implying that the razor wire dividing so-called classical, rock, jazz, art and commerce had been cut in a few places.
Never mind the embarrassing occurrence of hippie-speak on the In C sleeve-notes - 'No preconceptions, you just dig it' - the music, as they say, spoke for itself.
Essentially modest, Riley downplays all of this. After all, his contribution to the late 20th Century mix emerged out of collaborative work and improvisations with La Monte Young, Pauline Oliveros and Chet Baker.
After the first flush of enthusiasm for minimalism and systems music, Riley tended to be dismissed as an old hippy, past this peak, while Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Adams and Michael Nyman slid with varying degrees of compositional credibility into a new orthodoxy of avant-garde populism. But as Riley says, life goes in cycles and suddenly, the open works of Riley seem more expansive, more useful to the fractured nature of music in the present day than ever before."

Track Listing:
Side 1: A Rainbow In Curved Air (18:40)
Side 2: Poppy Nogood And The Phantom Band (21:40)

LABELS: The labels are like new - clean and bright and unmarked with no spindle traces (the spindle hole is still quite tight) - I don't think this copy has ever been played
VINYL Visual: The vinyl still retains its original deep, like new, glossy sheen and is completely unmarked - beautiful as-new record
VINYL Audio: Outstanding audio quality - clean, sharp, warm and vibrant and on playback at a loud volume (which is how I always listen to my LPs prior to listing and its always a great pleasure to hear this wonderful work again) there are no scratches, no sticks or jumps, just a couple of very minor and very occasional little 'ticks' (but only of the kind you are more than likely to find on even brand new vinyl - which in essence this is). The LP is beautifully recorded and plays to the highest possible standard with all frequencies bright and clear, no groove-wear and no distortion and is critically graded NEAR MINT for audio - fantastic copy - they don't come much better than this and this is undoubtedly the finest copy I have ever seen (and heard)
SLEEVE: The cover is crisp, sharp and fresh with no real wear to speak of, just a touch of age discolouration to the white areas on the back and on the spine - all spine text is clear and bold - EXCELLENT

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SUPERB ORIGINAL FIRST UK RELEASE OF TERRY RILEY'S 1964 MASTERPIECE IN EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION - VERY, VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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