Steve Reich – Four Organs / Phase Patterns [LP] Musique Concrète / Sound Collage Many of these have been

Many of these have been well preserved and documented elsewhere

Recorded and mixed during an unexpected extended stay in Berlin when the borders of the world suddenly closed

the Issue Project Room venue in New York City offered the first-time duo with the legendary Brooklyn- based guitarist Loren Connors and the rock icon Kim Gordon

Both pieces were created using a simple compositional method

some were never really released at all - Gary Davenport declined to release Sarra after he split with the girl for whom the track is named - years later a friend convinced Davenport to allow him to put 100 copies online to sell and DJ Sundae was quick enough to snare one

Steve Reich – Four Organs / Phase Patterns [LP] Musique Concrète / Sound Collage Many of these have been"Steve Reich remains one of the most important figures in 20th century music. Though he studied at the prestigious arts institutions Julliard and Mills College, by the mid 1960s Reich set about dismantling the very orthodoxy that he had been trained in. Forming a new musical language based on repetitive processes, Reich became established as part of the so called Big Four of New York minimalists (along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley and Philip