Oxfam Friday - It's Gonna Rain!

Mark asked me to pull a shift upstairs this morning, which I was more than happy to do. It started lashing it down towards the end and I had to walk back through the rain. It put me in mind of this:

Steve Reich is a composer of the minimalist school (like Philip Glass, more famous for his piano compositions which turn up in movies). I'd heard of the piece before as it's cited as an influence on modern sampling, but it cropped up on Howard Goodall's BBC series The Story of Music. It was made in 1965, but it sounds like it was made last week.

There wasn't much trade in the shop, but I managed to play Ibrahim Ferrer's Buenos Hermanos all the way through: