Terry Riley

Big tip! Sixty years after the groundbreaking premiere of In C forever changed the course of contemporary music, Terry Riley celebrates the work's enduring legacy with a historic live recording captured at Kyoto's Unesco World Heritage site, Kiyomizu-dera Temple. One of the most influential composers of our time, Terry Riley has continually redefined the possibilities of music through a career marked by innovation and originality. Described by Riley himself as his signature composition, In C (19…

Late 1970's re-press on CBS of one of the most beautiful, ground-breaking, original, psychedelic, influential, riveting, etc. experimental music album ever made, originally released in 1968. Essential unsurpassed masterpiece.

1980's re-press on CBS Masterworks of possibly the most beautiful, ground-breaking, original, psychedelic, influential, riveting, etc. experimental music album ever made, originally released in 1969. Essential unsurpassed masterpiece. Carrollton Pressing.

Original edition on Shandar of the Minimalist/repetitive tour-de-force for electric organ & feedback released as a double LP set in 1972, some of the most original and genuinely psychedelic avant-garde music ever. Essential masterpiece.

1978 re-issue on Stip of the superlative haunting and atmospheric soundtrack to the 1975 film Le Secret de la Vie. One of the most beautiful and enjoyable Minimalism-related albums.

Rare original US edition of the 1980 album with the beautiful 1978 improvisation for electronic organ and computerized digital delay. Pitman Pressing.

1985 LP on Planisphare with the beautiful Indian-tinged soundtrack blending synthesizer, piano and vocals with sitar and tabla.

2LP set released by Gramavision in 1985 with the string quartets in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet moving beyond the Minimalism of the early period. Includes catalogue.

Original UK edition on CBS of the very unique 1971 collaboration bridging Minimalism and experiemntal rock in a very unusual way.

Beautiful catalogue for an event of Minimalist piano performances by the four masters, held in Rome in 1999.

Pieces for Broken Piano turns a weather‑wrecked 1916 Gebrüder Stingl grand into an accidental “prepared” instrument, as Miroslav Beinhauer navigates new works by Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Milan Knížák, Gordon Monahan, Elliott Sharp, Milan Gustar and Yoon‑Ji Lee written specifically for its fractured voice.

Experience the extraordinary sonic journey of Terry Riley like never before with Live In Paris, 1975, an exclusive release from France Musique FM. Captured in these rare French live recordings, Riley delivers a mesmerizing display of his signature psychedelic organ mastery, following closely on the heels of his 1972 landmark work, Persian Surgery Dervishes. In stunning form, Riley conjures endlessly rippling, dosed organ drones that create a captivating sense of stasis within expansion—a uniquel…

• Limited edition of 750 numbered copies on yellow vinyl. 180 gram audiophile vinyl •  In the pantheon of American experimental music, few works possess the historical gravitas and enduring influence of Terry Riley's A Rainbow in Curved Air, released in 1969 on CBS Records' short-lived "Music of Our Time" series. This album represents nothing less than a seismic shift in the trajectory of Western art music, establishing compositional and technological precedents that would reverberate through fi…

* Limited edition of 750 individually numbered copies on gold vinyl. Includes insert * In the history of Western art music, few compositions have achieved the paradoxical feat of radical simplicity coupled with profound transformative power. Terry Riley's In C, composed in 1964, stands as the most deceptively modest yet revolutionary work of the twentieth century, a single page of musical notation that fundamentally altered the trajectory of American composition and established the foundation of…

A deluxe 4-CD box set bringing together the seminal Columbia recordings of Terry Riley. A landmark reissue from one of the most pivotal figures in 20th-century music. The Columbia Recordings brings together the four seminal albums that Terry Riley created for Columbia Masterworks between 1968 and 1980—a body of work that redefined the possibilities of minimalism, electronic music, and compositional freedom. The deluxe 4CD box set includes In C (1968), A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969), Church of An…

One of our favorite transcendental minimalist records ever offered here in its first 1974 Shanti gatefold edition in excellent condition.

Great catalogue of this 1999 event of legendary minimal piano performances in Rome.

Terry Riley’s Shri Camel is a meditative masterwork blending the feeling of eastern music with repetitive electronic patterns, obtained using a modified Yamaha YC-45D combo organ tuned in just intonation and augmented with digital delay. In C and Rainbow in Curved Air get all the ink (inc?), but its own somewhat subtle way, 1980’s Shri Camel, the last of the three brilliant albums Terry Riley recorded for CBS, is every bit as groundbreaking as its hallowed predecessors. Not content to rest on hi…

Formed in Cambridge in 1969 by Tim Souster and Roger Smalley, Intermodulation started out as a 4 piece group with the addition of Robin Thompson and Andrew Powell (who soon moved on to other Cambridge projects, including a pre Chris Cutler Henry Cow). Powell was replaced by Peter Britton, and this incarnation of the group remained for the duration of their existence.  Having releasing a box set of works by Gentle Fire it felt necessary to do the same with Intermodulation and thus complete the ot…

Very rare first publication of VHS cassette of 1986 documentary on Pandit Pran Nath, featuring Terry Riley, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela.