Torna uno degli album più estroversi di Terry Riley - con rivelazioni oniriche, incantesimi linguistici e disegnini da flippato che neanche Daevid Allen - in una versione ben dissimile da quella in solitaria pubblicata da Tzadik una dozzina d'anni fa: Autodreamographical Tales, con il Maestro qui loquacissimo accompagnato dal sestetto più che simpatetico di Bang on a Can All-Stars alle prese con gli arrangiamenti in gran parte suggeriti dal figlio Gyan.
Playful, eloquent, intimate and existentially cool, Terry Riley’s Autodreamographical Tales is a musical dream diary - a no-holds-barred journey into the creative unconscious, rendered with a compelling joie de vivre by one of the most influential composers of our time. Each of these ten songs offers an uncommonly special connection with Riley, who narrates, sings and adds his signature minimalist piano filigrees to a sprawling narrative that can turn poetic, picaresque or downright kaleidoscopic.
Backed by the ever-flexible Bang on a Can All-Stars, Riley challenges the ensemble by digging deep into a wide range of musical flavors that include free jazz, blues, rock, pop and classical. And through the vivid storytelling of Long Bus Ride and Zucchini, to the Jabberwockyan wordplay of Science Fiction and the raucous confessional Cannabis, Riley also bends and stretches the very limits of language - conveying a multivalent message for these times that is pithy, uplifting and powerful.