1. Pulses [4:19] MP3 soundclip of Pulses [3:00]
  2. Section I [4:18]
  3. Section II [5:01]
  4. Section IIIA [3:31]
  5. Section IIIB [4:00]
  6. Section IV [4:27]
  7. Section V [5:51]
  8. Section VI [4:19]
  9. Section VII [4:08]
  10. Section VIII [4:07]
  11. Section IX [4:43]
  12. Section X [1:12]
  13. Section XI [4:21]
  14. Pulses [3:47]



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info		 In cardboard sleeve.

Edmund Niemann, Nurit Tilles, Steve Chambers and Benjamin Kobler - piano.
David Van Tieghem and Garry Kvistad - marimba, xylophone, piano.
Evan Ziporyn, Virgil Blackwell and Richard Cohen - clarinet (bass), clarinet.
Tim Ferchen, Russ Hartenberger and Glen Velez - marimba, xylophone
Elizabeth Lim and Shem Guibbory - violin.
Thad Wheeler and Gary Schall - maraccas, marimba.
Elizabeth Arnold and Pamela Fraley - voices.
James Preiss - metaphone, vibraphone, piano.
Cheryl Bensman Rowe, Rebecca Armstrong and Marion Beckenstein - soprano (vocal).
Phillip Bush - maraccas, piano.
Ken Ishii and Jeanne LeBlanc - cello.
Larry Karush - marimba, piano.
Bob Becker - marimba, xylophone.
Jay Clayton - vocals, alto (vocal), piano.
Steve Reich - marimba, piano, Main performer.



review		 Music for 18 Musicians features, you guessed it, 18 musicians on pianos, woodwinds, female vocals and various mallet instruments. This 1974 work features a repeated insistent staccato, subtle shifts in the cycles allowing a careful listener to discover new patterns in the matrix of sound.
Inspired by the richness of African and Indonesian percussion-based music, and hearing parallels between those cycling forms and his own explorations of repetition through tape music, Reich composed many percussive pieces, most notably 1970's Drumming.
18 Musicians examines some of the same techniques, especially the motif of shifting phase between layers of repeated patterns, but the expanded instrumentation allows this to build to an intoxicating lushness. Similar repeated patterns can be heard in sequencer-based spacemusic, in fact Tangerine Dream's "Love on a Real Train" bears an alarming similarity to this work, although created on very different instruments.

2002. (c) New Age Voice. No #18 in top 25 of Ambient albums.