Terry and Gyan Riley at Mameromantic, November 11th 2017
Earlier this year, last January, I went to Disk Union Kichijoji to get me a birthday present. I got a Ravi Shankar CD that didn’t know I already had in its entirety in a compilation, a Butthole Suffers CD and a CD by Pandit Pran Nath. Two things convinced me to get the Pran Nath record; one that it was sealed and at a great price, the other that it had La Monte Young and Terry Riley in the credits. I always wanted to get into La Monte Young’s music. I’ve heard stuff here and there on YouTube, but the records are almost impossible to find and when you find them they are extremely expensive. The other credited musician, Terry Riley, has a more accessible discography in the sense that his records are more affordable and available at stores. For some reason I haven’t explored his discography as I have with the other two major minimalist composers: Reich and Glass. I’ve been lucky enough to even seen them perform. I remember seeing Philip Glass at the Royce Hall in UCLA performing