Soundtracks

I Shot Andy Warhol

About this album

Released in 1996. TAG Recordings 92690-2.

The I Shot Andy Warhol Suite is the only Cale composed track.

Tracks:

1. I Shot Andy Warhol Suite

Director Mary Harron:

"I hadn't seen John Cale for a while, but I asked him to score I Shot Andy Warhol. Lou Reed had already said we couldn't use any Velvet Underground songs in the movie because he hated Valerie Solanas, so I asked John, who actually wasn't speaking to Lou at that point anyway. Everything he wrote was so European, and elegiac, and tragic. So I had to ask him to make it more American. Some of his strings were just too dark. John goes into tragic European pretty easily."

Musicians:
Dave Soldier, Sara Parkins, Regina Carter, Matt Donner, Todd Reynolds, Judith Insell, Martha Mooke, Mark Deffenbaugh, Mark Stewart, Maya Biser, Mark Dressen and Kermit Driscoll.

Other credits:
Recorded at Sorcerer Sound, NYC, USA, 1995.

© 1999- Hans Werksman