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Fantastic Glissando Table Of The Elements SWC-082 LP £14.99 Massive slab of temporal disruption from one of the most consistently wowing figures to come out of the cultural meltdown of the 1960s. Conrad was a key mover in the Lower East Side rock and avant underground in the early to mid 60s, playing with Lou Reed, John Cale and Walter DeMaria in Reed’s frat-rock combo, The Primitives, and standing in with early line-ups of The Velvet Underground. But it was his activities as part of The Dream Syndicate/Theatre Of Eternal Music, a group dedicated to extending waves of single note bliss into whole new zones of psychoactive ecstasy, that were to have the most far-reaching cultural impact. Alongside John Cale, Angus MacLise, LaMonte Young and Marian Zazeela, Conrad founded a whole new approach to sound, working tiny pulsing intervals into long monotonal drones generated by bowed strings and vocals and birthing a minimalism several cells more blasted than the saccharine soundtracks associated with bigger hitting names like Philip Glass and Michael Nyman. Fantastic Glissando dates from 1969 and features four tracks of degraded sine-wave oscillations that approximate the roar of a fleet of V-2 bombers. |
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Bryant Park Moratorium Rally (1969) Table Of The Elements TOE-CD-83 CD £13.99 Brand new archival release from Tony Conrad, this one was originally made available as a free, Internet-only mp3 file at the eve of the US invasion of Iraq, 2003. It consists of a single, time-warping 50-minute recording made by Conrad back in 1969 using two microphones, one pointing out the window of his 5th floor loft on 42nd Street recording the October 15 Vietnam Moratorium Rally, the other directed at a Television news channel. It's a recording that works to highlight a bunch of Conrad's concerns, from questions of power/who's in charge through methods of documenting the fleeting gush of now and the use of immensely detailed, amorphous sound worlds. Post 9/11 these recordings have a whole new, highly potent historical resonance. Beautiful, eerie, a real trip in every sense. Features notes by, uh, “maverick journalist” Steve Dollar. Recommended. |
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Fantastic Glissando Table Of The Elements SWC-082 CD £12.99 Massive slab of temporal disruption from one of the most consistently impressive figures to come out of the cultural meltdown of the 1960s. Conrad was a key mover in the Lower East Side rock and avant underground in the early to mid 60s, playing with Lou Reed, John Cale and Walter DeMaria in Reed's frat-rock combo, The Primitives, and standing in with early line-ups of The Velvet Underground. But it was his activities as part of The Dream Syndicate/Theatre Of Eternal Music, a group dedicated to extending waves of single note bliss into whole new zones of psychoactive ecstasy, that were to have the most far-reaching cultural impact. Alongside John Cale, Angus MacLise, LaMonte Young and Marian Zazeela, Conrad founded a whole new approach to sound, working tiny pulsing intervals into long monotonal drones generated by bowed strings and vocals and birthing a minimalism several cells more blasted than the saccharine soundtracks associated with bigger hitting names like Philip Glass and Michael Nyman. Fantastic Glissando dates from 1969 and features four tracks of degraded sine-wave oscillations that approximate the roar of a fleet of V-2 bombers. |
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Lactamase 01 Beta-lactam Ring Records MT-021 10" £19.99 First volume of the Lactamase 10" record series from BLRR, a split 10" that sees minimalist godfather Tony Conrad in a zoned violin/cello duet with Alexandria Gelencsser on the A and solo surrealist/industrial psych from Edward Ka-Spel on the flip. Hand-numbered edition of 500 copies with insert, coupon and bookmark flier for Conrad's Texas Tour '99. OOP. |
