In the Summer by Terry Riley
This jam was posted by 4 people
but phantomcircuit was first
Because it is, or at least should be, in my head at least.
Soundtrack, 1975. One of the tracks included in Phantom Circuit #22 (14 June 2009): http://phantomcircuit.com
I remember seeing an interview with Riley talking about how hesitant he was to record his vocals - he considered music to be his spiritual journey, his way of figuring out who he was, and the voice specifically was an intimate instrument to him. Therefore if he was going to record/capture this process, it would have to be for spiritually sound reasons, not just to release an album. I think this a hugely relevant discussion in an age of overproduction/documentation-obsession - re-focusing on what the process means/is, what the substance of the act of creation is outside of the artefacts it generates.
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