Terry Riley: Descending Moonshine Dervishes Album Review

Recorded live in Berlin in 1975 but not released until 1982, Descending Moonshine Dervishes represents a continuation of the cadenza-like improvisations Riley captured on Persian Surgery Dervishes, recorded between 1971 and 1972 in Los Angeles and Paris. The titles of both albums, with their reference to Sufism’s whirling worshippers, offer a sense of the spinning…

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