Terry Riley review – father and son deliver gleefully chaotic minimalism

Oval Space, LondonThe composer, aided by guitarist son Gyan, sounds like Bach doing bebop during this series of joyously ramshackle improvisationsFor half a century, Terry Riley has found himself filed alongside fellow American composers such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass and John Adams, whose minty-fresh minimalism sounds as if it has been plotted out on graph paper. Riley’s music is, in the best possible way, often much messier than that of his peers, and it seems to have become even mor...

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