Oooo. Minimalism meets the Stick. I'm rather partial to good minimalist music (perhaps slightly favouring Glass over Reich as favourite in general, but it's a very close call).

I, based only on a few pieces, like Reich better than Glass. When my wife and I went to see Einstein on the Beach, we left to grab some M&Ms in the lobby part way through the very long production. There was an incredibly long line, and when we returned to our seats nothing had changed. (It was the scene on the back of the train, if I remember from several decades ago. I think this was at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.)

We also went to the Desert Music premier at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. That one struck us emotionally. A lot of repetition, but there was also movement.

On the other hand, when I saw Glass's Akhnaten recently on the Met Live in HD series at my local movie theater, I was much more impressed. It's good to see a composer grow. I'm not sure it it beats Reich, but it's a much more fair fight.

Actually the Glass I like best is the early stuff, e.g. 'Contrary Motion', 'Music in Similar Motion', 'Music in Fifths', 'Music in 12 Parts[1]', the Glassworks album, and most of all the Solo Piano album.

[1] You are probably aware, but just in case not, it's a collection of 12 pieces (which combined run to three and a half hours), rather than a single piece written for 12 parts.

David Sylvian, Damage: Live 1994
KC, Disipline
Trevor Stewart, Heavenly Peace
Greg Howard and Angela Kelly, The Holly and The Ivy
KC, Three Of A Perfect Pair

Who is it on Stick in this (from 1993 in Japan)?



Edit to add:

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Another edit to add: Perhaps answering my own question, by using this? Trey Gunn?

Trey Gunn

Oooooh, my bad, I forgot this one, whereas it is on the first place of my list. Killer album.

Thanks for the confirm groziel (Bruno?) & Glenn.

Beautiful album. I may need to add that to my collection.

Totally off topic, but I saw David Sylvian before he gained much fame. Japan were the support band for Blue Oyster Cult on their 1978 UK tour. That was gig was on June 2nd. Two days earlier on May 31st I'd seen Black Sabbath supported by some unknown (but that was soon to change) US band called Van Halen. That was a very good week for concerts.

Update, excluding the post above with video links. I have no idea how to add them to the list.

At any rate, right now the top six albums listed (there was a tie for third place) are the following albums:

Discipline King Crimson 5
Azure or Azul Howard 4
Random and Providence Cerletti 3
Parallel Galaxy Chapman 3
Gordian Knot Gordian Knot 3
Stick Figures Howard 3

This sort of fits into my history with the Stick. If I remember correctly, my first exposure to the Stick was King Crimson playing at Stony Brook University around the Discipline era. (From what I understand, there's a good quality bootleg of that concert taken right off the mixer.) After that, I saw Emmett Chapman playing somewhere in New York City. He was using some sort of pitch to MIDI converter and a TX-7 on the melody side. I bought my Stick sometime around here.

The world gets a bit more interesting if you list by Artist. At this point the top artists nine (again, there's a tie at fourth place) are:
Howard 13
King Crimson 6
Gunn 4
Cerletti 3
Chapman 3
Cides 3
Gordian Knot 3
Griesgraber 3
Lampi 3

Apparently many of Greg's albums are considered essential, although there's a bit of a quandry as to which one is the most essential.

I'll be updating this analysis if people add more albums.

So my timeline is fuzzy but I think I bought my first Stick @Sam Ash NYC after Discipline came out. At that point the only Stick players I had heard were Emmett and Alphonso Johnson. Considering what A.J. was doing on bass w/ Weather Report & George Duke/Billy Cobham I was wanting for more Stick on his solo albums. I think my Stick purchase came before Beat came out. I saw Crimson in NYC and Adrian introduced a new song called "Manhattan". It turned out to be Neurotica. I would think that there would NOT have been a Stick hanging in Sam Ash after that gig. BTW the guy handed me the Stick and said, "Good luck".
I have very few CDs. I barely have money for new strings. But I have AZUL and Michael Bernier "Veil" both are incredible albums.