On Steve Reich's Different Trains

Explore the story behind Steve Reich's Different Trains. The groundbreaking work, written for Kronos Quartet and first recorded on Nonesuch, is available at stevereich.lnk.to/differenttr...
The New York Times declared Different Trains "a work of such originality that 'breakthrough' seems the only possible description." Pitchfork called it a "late-career masterpiece" and placed the album among the 200 Best of the 1980s.
Video by Robert Edridge-Waks
Excerpts from Steve Reich interview courtesy Boosey & Hawkes, boosey.com

[@redskylullaby]

Definitely one of most powerful pieces of music ever written

[@samwallaceart288]

This is one of those pieces that grows on you the more you listen. Thanks for the backdrop.

[@longhaulblue]

My favorite Reich piece. His other pieces are novel but Different Trains has humanity and to me, it makes this piece of music timeless.

[@adakahn8115]

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[@Vancat2]

heard Different Trains on a college station and was blown away

[@HotelNeptune]

I'm so excited this has been reissued, thank you!!!

[@skizzofrenetik1249]

thank you for this this is an amaZing piece of art makes me feel unease but at the same time is awe inspiring

[@erzloh]

Amazing analysis, thank you!

[@Marcelrocha884]

Beautful!

[@tinvahtaric8680]

I was used to finding speech patterns in non speech related samples in songs so this is exactly the opposite he was trying to achieve with vocals trying to mimic non vocal elements, which is quite unsettling
The rest of the instrumental is amazing, very upbeat and gets compared to Kevin Penkins piece Gallantry and recapitulation that was made for the anime Made in abyss which I really like

[@georgejoy7635]

It gives the uncanny affect with the way they're "speaking" like you know it's a voice but it doesn't sound like one. It's in a playlist I listen to when I sleep safe to say this one always wakes me up

[@gregd6022]

1988?? the ideas are very old at that time, even corny in '88.

[@martinkennedy9950]

Example?

[@dudleydevine8264]

Ruined by speech. Could've been a masterpiece. An artist makes a choice. Not for me. One of those things I guess

[@harrisonbrand8985]

it’s not for you, exactly! that doesn’t mean it isn’t a masterpiece, it just means you don’t like it