"Attesting to Cale's visionary artistry, the volumes lay the foundation for countless musical developments that followed. They completely re-write the territory of minimalism with willful abandon and supercharged exhilaration. Instead they are an awesome, concrete substantiation of all the excitement their long non-appearance has generated. "These aural documents have been a long time in coming. Proves once again that La Monte Young's claim that he was the defining moment in minimalism is just insane." "As devastating as the rock & roll on the Velvets' 'Sister Ray. A reinvention of what we know of the past, and a treasure brought to light. "Shuddering rhythms at first sparkle like sunlight on water, before evoking the incandescence of a star going supernova. Includes performances by fellow Velvet Underground members Sterling Morrison and Angus MacLise and minimalist pioneer Tony ConradĥxLP set Includes bonus tracks featuring pioneering artist and filmmaker Jack Smith Liner notes by Rolling Stone's David Frickeįeatures rare and previously unreleased recordings Gorgeous, limited-edition release in black-lacquered wood box with black paper libretto It now sounds like fact."Įarliest recordings by Velvet Underground founder and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member John Cale Working in the shadows of both pop and art, building on discoveries and inventions from his life before and with the Velvets, Cale committed to tape a highly personal and exhilarating vision of the future of music. "These recordings have been virtually unheard since they were made more than three decades ago. When Cale tests the barriers of possibility in his tools-the guts of an abandoned piano, the jammed keys on an organ, the pause control of a Wollensak tape recorder-he generates a synthetic music that connects Edgard Varése, Henry Cowell and Karlheinz Stockhausen with contemporary electronica and turntablism.
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In his pulsing keyboard essays, Cale marries the grace and science of minimalism to the mainstream throb of rock & roll, a full decade ahead of Brian Eno and the Berlin-era David Bowie. The florid distortion of Cale's guitar pieces and the tandem bull-elephant hum of his viola and Conrad's violin prefigure the aggressive majesty and expressive dissonance of punk rock, No Wave and the Transfigured Guitar movement led by Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham and Sonic Youth. "What is truly extraordinary about the sixteen performances spread across these three volumes-Sun Blindness Music, Dream Interpretation and Stainless Gamelan-is their explosive foresight.
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And it is important music, an illuminating, heretofore unknown chapter in Cale's creative advance. It is jubilantly private music, made alone and with like-minded spirits-Tony Conrad, Sterling Morrison, original Velvets percussionist Angus MacLise-far from the hot light of the Velvets' public notoriety and the rough politics of Cale's relationship with Reed.
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"The recordings in this three-disc series come from another underground, a deep vein of labor and experimentation that parallels Cale's time with the Velvets. But outside the "official" VU there was also an uncut version of the virus, incubated behind the slum walls of the 1960s Lower East Side, and maintained live in the liquid nitrogen of these insolently recorded reel-to-reel audiotapes, recorded and produced by Tony Conrad and now available in the massive Table of the Elements 3xCD (5xLP) boxed set, "New York in the 1960s."
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John Cale's great credit, both inside and outside the Velvet Underground, was to have found the inoculation dosage that would addict the music industry to SOUND without alienating one world from the other.