A Migrations 2010 Event celebrating
Terry Riley's 75th Birthday

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Founder of the musical movement known as minimalism, and named by The Sunday Times as 'one of the thousand makers of the Twentieth Century', the composer Terry Riley celebrates his 75th birthday with a UK tour entitled 'California Kirana - The West Coast Legacy of Pran Nath', which features Riley performing together with saxophonist George Brooks and Mercury Prize-winning producer and tabla-player Talvin Singh. Pandit Pran Nath (1918-96) was a singer and teacher of Indian music from Lahore who moved to the United States and set up the Kirana Center for the Study of Indian Classical Music in 1972. His students included Riley, LaMonte Young, Don Cherry, Charlemagne Palestine, Jon Hassell and Lee Konitz. The music for tonight's concert will be drawn from favourite ragas of Pran Nath arranged for piano, saxophone, voice and percussion as well as original trios, duos and solos.

'Fascinating, rhythmically strict, compulsively intense.' The Guardian

'As Riley's simple phrases drift in and out of sync with each other, complex, hypnotic patterns emerge and dissolve, an experience of potentially psychedelic proportions for the listener.' BBC