For this new sounds, listen to some of the self-dubbed “ritual groove” of Pianist Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, a chamber jazz outfit who mix minimalism and James Brown liberally.  We’ll hear from the latest album “Llyria,” named after a luminous sea creature. 

Also, sample from William Duckworth’s best-known work, Time Curve Preludes, a set of piano pieces written in 1979 and one of the first so-called "post-minimalist" compositions.  What the American Record Guide calls the “Well-Tempered Clavier of minimalism,” is one principal melody held in musical space by a durational architecture based on proportional time.  Although it might sound like music for mathematicians,  with its architecture making use of the Fibonacci series, the work contains hints of Satie, bluegrass banjo picking and the rocking fire of Jerry Lee Lewis.   Plus, a selection from the Australian long-form extended improvisatory trio the Necks, and their slowly unfolding music that develops through ambient sound washes, shifting rhythms and psychedelic mood swings.

PROGRAM #3132, Post-minimalist Piano (First aired on 11/01/2010)