Why review aged albums? Because they are still breaking ground over twenty years since their inception.
This album still moves me. Every piece is perfect and it moves along sometimes slowly, sometimes frantically!
From ‘Island’ to ‘Rubric’ is my favorite part of the album. I’ve been much more into the somber “Works for Solo Piano” but I can’t stop listening to this today.
I’ve always found the term minimalism hard to grasp, this seems quite layered and intricate; the timing and everything go, at times, almost maddeningly out-of-4:4…. and I like to think that the songs are predictable but if you listen closely they are not at all.
Find this album and think about your life maybe.
Thanks for reading. More to come about Philip Glass. I’ve been obsessing about him and the Magnetic Fields lately.
