SubOptimal Credits. Tracks 1-3 recorded August 31, 1988 - September 9, 1988 at Russian Hill Recording, San Francisco, CA, USA. Tracks 4-6 recorded September 26, 1987 - October 1, 1987 at Power Station, New York City, NY, USA. Tracks 1-6 are DDD on the CD, DDA on the LP. Karl Steinbrenner's photography credit is for the front cover image. Tracks 1-6 were mastered by Robert C. Frank Olinsky is associated with Manhattan Design.
Michael Ahearn's 'additional engineer' ARs ought to read 'assistant engineer'. Gary Solomon's 'additional engineer' ARs ought to read 'assistant engineer'. David Oakes's 'additional producer' ARs ought to read 'assistant producer'.
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The disc's centerpiece is 'Different Trains,' a work that frames Reich's impressions of his boyhood train trips between his mother in Los Angeles and his father in New York; Reich also intersperses references to the much more harrowing train rides Jews were forced to take to Nazi concentration camps. Reich Different Trains Electric Counterpoint Raritan Average ratng: 4,4/5 4150. Find a Steve Reich - Kronos Quartet / Pat Metheny - Different Trains / Electric.
Ben Fowler's 'additional mixer' ARs ought to read 'mixing assistant'. Jennifer Keats' miscellaneous role ARs are for 'Production Coordinator'.
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This double-headed reissue is a timely reminder of the place of minimalism in contemporary music. Reich’s two masterpieces were recorded by Kronos Quartet and Pat Metheny in 1989 and 1987, underlining the modernity of the work as well as the virtuosity of the performers, both fully embracing the aesthetic of repetition amid graduated shifting of lines to create the sensation of stillness within motion and motion within stillness.
From a purely textural point of view Metheny’s work on Electric Counterpoint is masterful, as his interweaving of electric and bass guitar, done live against pre-recorded parts that he played, feels cohesive and kaleidoscopic. As for Kronos’ rendition of Different Trains it has a startling emotional as well as musical arc. The whirring strings combine with taped speech to give a sense of an American life unfolding against the historic backdrop of war, holocaust, migration and reconstruction. It is a fearless exercise in soul baring and sonic imagining.