Terry Riley: The Last Camel in Paris
Elision Fields' The Last Camel in Paris captures Riley near the start of this phase of his concertizing, yet it also provides the last word, and sort of a postscript, on a project that he had done earlier in 1978, Shri Camel , the last and most elaborate of Riley 's albums for CBS. This concert, given at the Thèâtre Edouard VII in Paris on November 10, 1978, derives from the same family of modal rhythm from which Shri Camel sprung, although it seems to relate most specifically to the sections titled...
