Terry Riley: Sun Rings, by Kronos Quartet

Terry Riley: Sun Rings

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Includes a 24-page booklet with new essays from David Harrington, Terry Riley, Don Gurnett, and Mark Swed

Includes unlimited streaming of Terry Riley: Sun Rings via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.	Overture 01:24	buy track
2.	Hero Danger 07:15	buy track
3.	Beebopterismo 07:14	buy track
4.	Planet Elf Sindoori 07:48	buy track
5.	Earth Whistlers 10:04	buy track
6.	Earth/Jupiter Kiss 06:38	buy track
7.	The Electron Cyclotron Frequency Parlour 05:59	buy track
8.	Prayer Central 16:43	buy track
9.	Venus Upstream 07:17	buy track
10.	One Earth, One People, One 09:03	buy track

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Kronos Quartet’s groundbreaking 2002 collaboration with composer Terry Riley, Sun Rings, is available in full for the first time. Riley incorporates into his composition "space sounds" (plasma waves) that NASA had collected from the Voyager probes, as well as a choir that represents, in his words, "the voice of humanity in its struggle to understand the meaning of our place in this unfathomable universe." Musical America calls it "a spaceship that faces ahead into the planets but also looks back toward its starting point on Earth."

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released August 30, 2019

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Kronos Quartet San Francisco, California

For more than 45 years, San Francisco’s Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet and its nonprofit Kronos Performing Arts Association have reimagined and redefined the string quartet experience through thousands of concerts, over 60 recordings, collaborations with composers and performers from around the globe, over 1,000 commissioned works, and education programs for emerging musicians. ... more

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Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara

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Apr 28

Royce Hall, UCLA

Los Angeles (LA), CA
May 9

Royal Conservatory of Music / Conservatoire Royal De Musique

Toronto, ON
May 12

National Concert Hall

Dublin, Ireland
May 14

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Hamburg, Germany
May 15

Konzerthaus

Vienna, Austria
May 25

Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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