John Cale: New York in the 1960s
About this series
3 CDs released in May and December 2001. Table of the Elements. TOE-CD-75, TOE-CD-79 and TOE-CD-80..
Produced from archival recordings by Tony Conrad:
"What I had learned first about John Cale was that he had written a piece which pushed a piano down a mine shaft. We hungered for music almost seething beyond control - or even something just beyond music, a violent feeling of soaring unstoppably, powered by immense angular machine across abrupt and torrential seas of pounding blood."
Liner notes by David Fricke.
- Sun Blindness Music
- Dream Interpretation:
Inside The Dream Syndicate Vol. II - Stainless Gamelan:
Inside The Dream Syndicate Vol. III
These recordings are solo efforts on electronic organ - the awesome Vox Continental, guitar and viola as well as collaborations with saxophone player Terry Jennings, violinist Tony Conrad, Velvet Underground guitar player Sterling Morrison and the VU's original drummer Angus MacLise.
Thanks to Tony Conrad, who was a co-member in La Monte Young's group The Dream Syndicate, these tapes are finally available to the public.
Box set
Also released as a box set containing all 3CDs, and as 5LP version, with two bonus tracks:
- Cold Starry Nights (from the Jack Smith album Les Evening Gowns Damnées)
- Silent Shadows on Cinemaroc Island (from the Jack Smith album Silent Shadows On Cinemaroc Island)
- New York in the 1960s box set