Solo albums

Caribbean Sunset

About this album

Released in January 1984. ZE ILPS 7024.

Tracks:

"The songs on Caribbean Sunset are pretty tight. Model Beirut Recital is sort of idiosyncratic. It sort of lurches along well-intentionally.... the worst thing about the album is that some of the songs might sound cute. Maybe i'm a balladeer and not a rock'n'roller.

Like Music for a New Society this one was improvised too, except for Damn Life.... you just sit down and turn the machine on and off you go. Bob's your uncle. If you're lucky you're lucky.... it's lighter than Society, closer to the pop textures of Slow Dazzle.... so all of them were done like that. All you had at the end was a dismembered texture, you didn't have like a basic at all. It all evaporated into different.... one part would have nothing to do with another. Model Beirut Recital is a pretty considered effort to deal with an obnoxious subject in a passionate, sympathetic way. That laconic edge had to be there. Singing with an Arab accent, poking fun at it.... Villa Albani is about financing arms deals through the Vatican.... I'm more direct because I have more fun doing it.... Praetorian Underground is a pretty angry kinda song about the Velvet Underground copyists....""

Experiment Number 1 by John Cale
Hungry For Love, Model Beirut Recital, Praetorian Underground, Magazines and The Hunt and Villa Albani by John Cale and Dave Young
Caribbean Sunset and Where There's A Will by John Cale and Larry Sloman

Musicians:
John Cale: vocals, keyboards, guitar
Brian Eno: A.M.S. pitch changer
Andy Heermans: bass, vocals
Dave Lichtenstein: drums & boobams
Dave Young: guitar, vocals

Other credits:
Producer: John Cale
Executive producer: John Cale
Associate producer: Tome Roberts at Right Track Recording, NYC
Associate engineers: Tim "Thilby" Crich and David Schectesson
Engineer on Magazines: Andy Heermans for Planet Sound
Design: Rob O'Connor
Cover photo: Risé Cale

Villa Albani maxi single

Villa Albani is released as a 12" maxi single, with the instrumental version and Hungry For Love on the B-side.

Cancelled CD re-release

A re-release on CD of this album was planned for 2001, including the outtake She Never Took No For An Answer and an instrumental version of the Villa Albani (which was first released on 12" in Germany in 21984, together with the album version and Hungry For Love).

The release was cancelled at the last moment for unknown reasons. Considering that She Never ... was co-written with Larry Sloman, including the song on an expanded version of Artificial Intelligence would have made sense too. Track down a copy of the Sid & Nancy soundtrack if you want to hear it on CD.