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There is no doubt about composer Terry Riley's position in the history of 20th-century ... more
music. When his watershed composition In C was recorded in 1964, very little of its ilk was available. In C is a pulsating exploration of musical tones, all of them surrounding a riveting repetition of a C note on the piano. To simplify the event, its debut was the formal birth of minimalism. While Riley's original CBS recording has strong charm, and bragging rights as first-on-the-block, one measure of a piece's greatness is its translatability. To this end, Celestial Harmonies presents the Shanghai Film Orchestra on traditional Chinese instruments playing the piece. Percussive, lilting, and thick with energy, Shanghai is monumentally faithful to Riley's designs, loping and looping the segments brilliantly and utilizing the Chinese instruments' pitches to the advantage of the composition. --Andrew Bartlett
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Advantages: Very versatile. excellent colour printing, good price (£89) Disadvantages: Ponderous software install. Longevity question mark hanging over it
Suddenly, everything?s ?coming up printers? in the BNibbles? household, and I?ve also updated what I thought of the HP C5180, the predecessor to my new HP C6380.
Having just written about my new Samsung laser printer, I guess it was only a matter of time before Argos, the God of Laminated Catalogues decreed that my other printer should pack up on me just when I was already having an 'expensive' month.
My first 'all-in-one', an HP C5180 had given sterling service for the first 10½ months of its first year in my possession until sadly it developed a fault that couldn't be cleared. A month later, after much to-ing and fro-ing with HP's Support Desk (was it still under warranty or wasn't it, the manufacturing date being yonks before the purchase date), I was delivered a 'refurbished' replacement (it being by now an obsolete ...
Advantages: Lightning seeds with techno sounds Disadvantages: Not their best effort
sounding out of place also sounds brilliant, the over-all flow and style make this one of the albums best songs. 9/10
The final song on the album is "The life of Riley (remix)" which starts identically to the opening track, and seems to be very slightly different in musical arrangement, the vocals kicking in later than the original, with more echo than the original. I've never been able to work out why this track is here as it brings nothing new to the album. So it can have the same mark as the first track. 8/10 ...
Advantages: simple, soft, easy Disadvantages: not my thing, too techno-sounding5
sounding out of place also sounds brilliant, the over-all flow and style make this one of the albums best songs. 9/10
The final song on the album is "The life of Riley (remix)" which starts identically to the opening track, and seems to be very slightly different in musical arrangement, the vocals kicking in later than the original, with more echo than the original. I've never been able to work out why this track is here as it brings nothing new to the album. So it can have the same mark as the first track. 8/10 ...
