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Newly remastered from the original tapes for optimal sound. Limited
edition of 500 copies.
Another incredible treasure from the vaults of
Cologne radio, recorded in February 22/23rd, 1975. Unreleased sessions,
carefully remastered, in this duo improvisation Riley's organ
intersections just define the geometry of the hyper-dimensional space
where Don Cherry's outwordly trumpet lives. Mantric and evocative, we
could go on and on listening to the very same track all day long, it
could last forever...
In 1975, pioneering minimalist composer Terry Riley and jazz trumpet cosmonaut Don Cherry
joined forces for a magnetic performance in Köln, Germany. But they
also recorded these incredible radio sessions: Riley’s swirling synth,
droning and clairvoyant and prescient in its clarity, parades along with
a triumphant Cherry, leaving behind trails of mystery and a sense of
beauty in a larger, more universal form. We have a “Descending Moonshine Dervishes”
lasting 32 minutes, a transcendent moment of improvisational
experimentation and spiritual jazz. As Cherry’s physical presence slowly
liquifies, “the lonesome foghorn blows” into some kind of misty dawn.
Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector follows
the compositional model Riley had created earlier with his famous
minimalist masterpiece In C from 1964. If any music was to represent
quantum void, Terry Riley's multi-layered organ patterns are definitely
the most suitable candidate. They constitute a steady, everchanging
background which is always and never the same at the same time, with
epiphanic particles rising from the fluctuation and disappearing
immediately after, just to reappear where you'd never have expected them
to. This meeting between Terry Riley’s amazing all-night-flight organ
styles and Cherry’s devotional trumpet work, is staggering document and
another fascinating uncovering of a key moment in the secret history of
holy minimalism.