Name: Three Tales
Brand: Steve Reich

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

7559796622

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

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Format detail

CD & DVD

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2014-10-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Warner Music Group

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UPC / Barcode

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Steve Reich

Genre GB

Modern Composition

Label GB

Nonesuch

Three Tales (2001) is a response to nearly a hundred years of modern technology, concerning the explosion of the Hindenburg, nuclear testings on Bikini Atoll, and the cloning of Dolly the Sheep (drawing connections between genetic engineering and artificial intelligence). The different stories are told from various perspectives, with speech culled from interviews with eye-witnesses, audiovisual documentary material of both the Hindenburg and Bikini tragedies, and experts in computer science. The musical narrative of Three Tales follows "speech melodies" of pre-recorded interviews, and in many ways resembles Reich's works The Cave(1990-1993), City Life1995) and Different Trains 1988).

Three Tales

Music GB