Food for the Bearded

by Gyan Riley

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Gyan's first album, featuring Terry Riley, Tracy Silverman, and David Doll. With beautiful original cover art by George Wang.

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1.	Piedad 07:06	info	buy track
2.	Happychap 01:17		buy track
3.	Spiralysis 03:28		buy track
4.	Food for the Bearded 04:15		buy track
5.	Sinspiration 08:24		buy track
6.	Yubalation 06:09		buy track
7.	Sonata Quasifantokastica: 1. Tokata 04:01		buy track
8.	Sonata Quasifantokastica: 2. Fantasy for Hoda 03:13		buy track
9.	Sonata Quasifantokastica: 3. Quasitremelodo 04:44		buy track
10.	Drift 03:57		buy track
11.	Balama 04:43	lyrics	buy track
Balama tar gayee han Ratiyan assaa nu vay Karam da bhalaa (navay)

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Gyan Riley, guitar
Tracy Silverman, viola
David Doll, percussion
Terry Riley, piano and vocals

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released January 1, 2002

All songs composed by Gyan Riley (Agyanamus Music, BMI) except Piedad (by Terry Riley) and Balama (an improvisatory arrangement of a traditional composition in the Indian raga Bhimpalasi).
Mixed by Mikail Graham and Tracy Silverman
Mastered by Mikail Graham
Cover image by George Wang

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Gyan Riley New York

“Gyan Riley is a one-man American-music machine, amicably ranging across the fields of jazz, world music, and post- minimalism." (The New Yorker) He has performed with Zakir Hussain, Lou Reed, John Zorn, Bill Frisell, the Kronos Quartet, Lee Ranaldo, Julian Lage, Glenn Kotche, and Terry Riley. Gyan lives in Brooklyn and tours worldwide. ... more

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