Re: Album of the day (#5454): Music For 18 Musicians

DommeDamian — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 03:52:23 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 11/25/2025 08:52

I like this now.

Re: Album of the day (#5454): Music For 18 Musicians

Johnnyo — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 03:51:10 GMT

Author: Johnnyo

Posted: 11/25/2025 08:51

One of my wife's favourite albums. It really is an astonishing album.

Not an album for the casual listener but if you allow yourself to REALLY listen to it, it delivers in spades. A masterpiece of it's type, very minimalist, and a great listen if you give it the attention it deserves.

Album of the day (#5454): Music For 18 Musicians

BestEverAlbums — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:00:24 GMT

Author: BestEverAlbums

Posted: 11/24/2025 21:00

Today's album of the day

Music For 18 Musicians by Steve Reich (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1978.
Country:
Overall rank: 549
Decade rank: 126
Year rank: 9
Discography rank: 1 (out of 29 albums on BEA)
Average rating: 82/100 (from 326 votes).

Tracks:
1. Pulse - Sections I - IV
2. Sections V - X - Pulse

indicates a top-rated track.

Top voted comments:

"Despite being divided into multiple 'sections', Reich's minimalist masterpiece is performed in one take, and so has the curious property of being seemingly immobile and yet constantly washing over you. Listening to the strings undercut the vocals on Section VII has a desperate urgency that is difficult to put into words. Reich's music somehow makes you feel you've heard this a million lifetimes before and will hear it a million lifetimes over again all without uttering a single lyric.

Most of this is copied from the description of the album in my overall chart, do check it out if you have the time!!"
- sidneyfranklyn
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"Reich's 'pulse music' is repetitive and 'trance'-like that you cannot just allow to wash over you. By allowing yourself to enter fully into the aesthetic, the experience it offers can approach the sublime. It develops a meditative quality, as your engagement with the flow of sound becomes total. This 'minimilist' music is ambitious as it is moving and profound. It's a work that is monumental in scale and perfectly realised that astounds with its originality."
- hairymarx1
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Re: Album of the day (#5454): Music For 18 Musicians

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Album of the day (#5454): Music For 18 Musicians