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The Last Camel In Paris [Live] [Import]

~ Terry Riley (Composer), Terry Riley (Organ)
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  • Composer: Terry Riley
  • Audio CD (12 May 2008)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Live, Import
  • Label: Elison Fields
  • ASIN: B0012E87EE
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 54,280 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Throughout the 1970s, legendary American composer Terry Riley toured regularly in Europe, performing solo organ concerts. In October 1978, Riley's personal technician Chester Wood built a stereo digital delay out of an ancient computer he had procured from Don Buchla, and the subsequent tour was the maiden voyage to try it out. Riley's specially modified two-manual Yamaha YC-45D portable combo organ had a Just Intonation setting and allowed him to feed stereo signals to the digital delay. The Yamaha had been manufactured with single mono output, but now with the modification it had a separate output for each manual eventuating in four channels (two live and two delayed). During a residency as a Fellow at DAAD in Berlin, Riley fine-tuned the delay speeds and experimented with different stereo combinations so that by the time of this Paris concert, the tape delays worked well with the tempos he was using. This all came on the heels of the Shri Camel recording Riley had just made in San Francisco for CBS. The musical materials of The Last Camel in Paris are second generational, belonging to the Shri Camel family while manifesting their own distinct shape and flavor.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Terry Riley- The Last Camel in Paris Live LP (9.5/10), 10 Jan 2009
By experimusicdotcom "experiment with music" (united kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Terry Riley's fascination with Eastern melodies and his psychedelic re-interpretations of these has been a major source of interest for me. The seed was sewn when one first auditioned the mesmerising 'Shri Camel' and one became border-line obsessed after unearthing and then unravelling the complex and immense body of work that was 'Persian Surgery Dervishes'. Massive scans of musical discographies from Riley and like minded composers was undertaken with little to no joy, only the recently re-released 'Les Yeux Fermes' and 'Poppy No Good...' and elements of Philip Glass's 'Music in Twelve Parts' alluded to this devilishly captive brand of minimalist Eastern-psychedelica. Thank goodness then for the release of 'Last Camel In Paris', a live album captured in 1978 and broadcast by Radio France back in 1979 which is spiritually drawn from the family of Shri Camel recordings developed in 1978 but distinctive enough to retain its own unique shape and flavour.

Utilising a heavily modified Yamaha YC-45D electric organ tuned in just intonation (see the mini-poster included with this release), Riley continues upon his one-man escapade to create music which is strategically designed to make listeners leave their earthly bodies and float into a warm and fuzzy dreamland where LSD addled snake-charmers, vibrantly decorated flying-carpets and melting-Carob trees reign supreme. To get an accurate gauge as to the sound of this release, imagine a sun-scorched plain in a desolate and uninterrupted corner of the Earth that is filled by the deafening chirp of a million Sparrows whilst multi-coloured clouds unleash a torrent of crystallised rain-shards. The way Riley utilises his live channels and his delayed channels from his combo organ allows him to create a heavily textured and multi-layered body of music that ebbs and flows majestically and captivatingly across 60 hallucinogenic minutes. The manner in which Riley develops and perpetuates lushious melodic motiffs in both the foreground and the background, in tandem, is second to none and there are a plethora of such examples that flair up and die-out on this release. This 'one' piece is conveniently spliced into 10 listenable chunks but is designed to be played all the way through. As with 'Shri Camel', the treble-heavy sound can grate but this is a minor quibble. My obsession with such sounds has been temporarily quenched by 'The Last Camel in Paris' and for that one sends a million thank you's to those at Ellison Fields.(KS)

For fans of: Minimalist Eastern Psychedelica and its spiritually enlightening wares.
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