An exciting find on YouTube. Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint performed without any multitracking, but with an entire ensemble of guitar players performing it live. The thing is, Reich originally composed the piece for Pat Metheny, and it was meant for one electric guitarist to record all the different parts (more than 10 different tracks, if I recall correctly) and then play along to the tracks. Metheny did that, and so did Jonny Greenwood.
But these Filipinos got together to play every ... single ... track ... live. How awesome is that! I'm thinking it must have taken a constipation-inducing level of concentration and focus to pull it off. You can hear a few minor mistakes here and there, but overall, it's a highly commendable effort. I mean, to even consider doing something like that is already amazingly brave.
And then, there is this wonderful and imaginative use of a sample from Electric Counterpoint by The Orb. It's really infectious.
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