La Monte Young - The 2nd Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer
La Monte Young: The Melodic Version (1984) of The Second Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China (1962)
classical / avant-garde | EAC, APE, no CUE, no LOG | Cover | RS 293 MB
Theatre Of Eternal Music Brass, Ben Neill, Label: Gramavision GRV 74672, 1991
Recorded: December 9, 1990 | Playing time: 77 min
Someone interested in La Monte Young's music faces a challenge: none of his works are available. Until Young signed to Gramavision in 1987, his recorded legacy was issued by a series of obscure labels, all of which have since disappeared. The Well-Tuned Piano, The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From the Four Dreams of China and Just Stompin' managed to obtain the releases only for it to get deleted all of Young's titles when Gramavision was taken over by Rykodisc. Throughout his career Le Monte Young remained a largely shadowy figure; he was and is hugely and widely influential on contemporary music yet virtually unknown outside of the circle of advanced thinking musicians. Le Monte's ideas permeate classical, trance, rave and noise rock though few of these musicians have even heard of him. Young is the real ‘inventor’ of minimalism. The term originally referred to his "dream house", a New York loft in which Young and his Theater Of Eternal Music (comprising violinist Tony Conrad, viola player John Cale, trumpet player Jon Hassell, keyboardist Terry Riley and others) developed a music made of semi-stationary waves, of slowly evolving amorphous sound. Music became a living organism. Colossal pieces such as The Tortoise His Dreams And Journeys (1964) and A Well Tuned Piano (1964) offered little or no respite for western harmony, and created a bold bridge between John Cage's "alea", Buddhist meditation and psychedelia. from (Gramavision 1991) is the recording is the 1984 'Melodic Version' of a 1962 composition. It features The Theatre Of Eternal Music Brass Ensemble led by trumpeter Ben Neill with eight muted trumpets, droning together for periods determined by the players’ breathing cycles. The recording was made available before by sonaimad in minimalistic and underground Young’s style. Of course, it was wise not to over advertise Young’s links, as they are prone to disappear quickly.
Tracks:
1. The Second Dream Of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer
RS Links:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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