TERRY RILEY
"Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band All Night Flight"
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This live performance of Poppy Nogood, recorded at SUNY Buffalo during the Intermedia 68 tour, is Riley at his hypnotic best. Originally released as part of the Organ of Corti Terry Riley Archive Series, it is back in print for the first time in several years. Other recordings in the Riley Archive series will follow, all with new cover artwork featuring period photography.

The live recording of Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band All Night Flight, taken from a 1968 concert is the perfect trigger for what anthropologist Jean Rouch called "The Strange Mechanism," the trance state which most of this decade's electronic music aspires to induce. The immediacy and the spectral filigree—the 'dervishes' summoned during Riley's nocturnal concert—have been faithfully preserved on this CD.

—Richard Henderson, The Wire

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