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Viking's Choice: Minimalist Rock And Roll, Sahrawi Folk Music, Motorcycle Synth

Real Life Rock & Roll Band applies minimalist techniques to its countrified motorik-emo and essential reissues rescue El Wali's Sarahan desert jams and Patrick Cowley's synth rippers.
Real Life Rock & Roll Band applies minimalist techniques to rumbling, dueling guitar histrionics on its debut album, <em>Hollerin' the Spirit</em>.

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Ain't nothing minimal about minimalism. It's mind-expanding music within a limited frame, its attention to repetition and variation happens to be a sympathetic conductor for rock and pop music hypnosis.

In late 1986, the took stock of : "Love it or loathe it, Minimalist music, with its patterned repetition, seemingly endless length and stubborn refusal to come to conventional climaxes, is everywhere these days." With over 30 years of perspective, it's wild to was with the '60s movement that , , and wrought.

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