Stephen Michael Reich (/ˈraɪʃ/; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.
Reich's style of composition influenced many composers and groups. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (for example, his early compositions It's Gonna Rain and Come Out), and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts (for instance, Pendulum Music and Four Organs). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm and canons, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially in the US. Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably the Grammy Award-winning Different Trains.
Writing in The Guardian, music critic Andrew Clements suggested that Reich is one of "a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history". The American composer and critic Kyle Gann has claimed that Reich "may...be considered, by general acclamation, America's greatest living composer".
Steve Reich: Works 1965–1995 is a 1997 10-CD box set of compositions by composer Steve Reich released by Nonesuch Records as part of Reich's 60th birthday celebration. Described as, "monumental... essential... beautiful", it includes full track and personnel listing, career chronology, appreciative notes (such as essays by John Adams and Michael Tilson Thomas), a new interview, and "his most famous works" with the "curious exclusions" of Violin Phase, Music for Pieces of Wood and Vermont Counterpoint.
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Section X is a 2005 concept album by Danish Progressive metal band Beyond Twilight.
Blood on my fingers
Night in my soul
Your breath I will hear no more
I'm slowly growing cold
Your eyes are open
Dead to the light
I hear my soul cry
On the wings of death I ride
Reality seizes me
I fear I see
The truth
All my visions are fading away
Without a soul
I march to my end
Endless suffering... I fall
This is farewell and never more
Heaven nor Hell - just closing doors
Hunting the shadows
Knowing they are one
Whispering voices
They stalk me through the dark
My eyes are open
Black, all is black
I am desperately cold
And upon my knees I crawl
Lost forever
Filled with pain
All my visions have faded away
Without a soul
I march to my end
Endless suffering I fall
This is farewell and never more
Heaven nor Hell - just closing doors
Into the grey
I'll pass without a trace
The nothingness awaits
And never more...
Fade away
This is farewell and never more
Heaven nor Hell - just closing doors