Steve Reich - Kronos Quartet / Pat Metheny – Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint (Vinyl) TSHA The Race Is on Again

The Race Is on Again

The Cakekitchen remains a fixture in the NZ and international underground music scene

while the Paul Quattrone / Dan Rincon drum-corps polyrhythmic pulse continues to astound and pound in equal measure

and it's clear that he’s found a balance between them

Already this week

Steve Reich - Kronos Quartet / Pat Metheny – Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint (Vinyl) TSHA The Race Is on AgainThis late '80s work finds the minimalist composer, Steve Reich, mixing acoustic and taped material to great effect. The disc's centerpiece is "Different Trains," a work that frames Reich's impressions of his boyhood train trips between his mother in Los Angeles and his father in New York; Reich also intersperses references to the much more harrowing train rides Jews were forced to take to Nazi concentration camps. Using the fine playing of the Kronos