Track Listing

1. Desert Music Movements 1 To 5

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62360 in Music
• Released on: 1990-04-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Customer Reviews

Simply stunning.
'Desert Music' is simply stunning. Steve Reich has forged a unique way of writing, a potent mixture of the melodic vocal style of 'Tehillim' or 'Proverb' with the repetitive structures of 'Drumming' or 'Sextet'. This is also perhaps Reich's most overt use of message in his composition: he uses the desert concept both to point to the environmental disaster implicit in current use of technology, and also as a harbour for thought, harking back perhaps to the vigils in the desert of the Bible. This cd cannot be too highly recommended.

Transformational Music
I don't know where I go when I listen to this piece, and it's not always the same place, but when I come back things often look different. The extreme simplicity of the words (by William Carlos Williams) can easily hide their profound message, but Steve Reich's exquisite music allows them to permeate in a way that makes an emotional connection inevitable. Please buy this record.

Dark, rich, atmospheric
ooh, this one is spooky. I listened to it while driving across Bolivia - it's hauntingly beautiful, just like the desert Reich seeks to conjour