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Persian Surgery Dervishes
Terry Riley
Persian Surgery Dervishes
Genre: Classical
 

     
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All Artists: Terry Riley
Title: Persian Surgery Dervishes
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Dunya
Original Release Date: 1/1/1971
Re-Release Date: 4/8/2003
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 045775801124, 885016671525
 

CD Reviews

Not for casual listeners...
a customer | earth | 11/01/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)

"PERSIAN SURGERY DERVISHES is Terry Riley at his best. This is intensive, energetic, hypnotic, trance-inducing sound for strange people. It lacks the polish of A RAINBOW IN CURVED AIR and SHRI CAMEL, but maintains a similar style. That style is Riley alone at his organ playing away as if there were no future and no past, only an eternal now which is a river of ever-changing sound. Many people will hate this music - it's bass heavy, as if being channeled straight to your navel, - and lacking in the ordinary emotion-feelings of daily life. This is the sort of music one would expect to hear, soul detached from body at death, dissolving into some unknown no-thing-ness and feeling both overwhelming awe and bliss... !"