Pulse / Quartet Digital FLAC Album exclusive

Pulse / Quartet Digital FLAC Album exclusiveSteve Reich's Pulse Quartet includes the world premiere recordings of Pulse, performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, and Quartet, played by the Colin Currie Group. The Los Angeles Times notes the "lyricism, gorgeous instrumental textures and affecting harmonies" of Pulse, and the New York Times says of Quartet: "Written for two vibraphones and two pianos, Quartet is Mr. Reich's first piece for those two instruments alone, and the

The reissue earns five stars from Mojo and Uncut

and composer Makaya McCraven

" This deluxe edition includes the original album’s eleven track plus seven additional tracks

songwriter

" says The New Yorker

Professor Longhair

features performances by the composer’s longtime collaborators Attacca Quartet

took shape in LA

Working with Sylvan Esso's Nick Sanborn

which commissioned this orchestral version of the worka theme and eleven variations plus a cadenza and postlude

that tell the folk tale of Mélusine

is a far-ranging exploration of 17th-century German Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher