Cale: New York in the 1960's
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Composer: John CaleComposer: Unspecified
Performer: John Cale
Performer: Jack Smith
Performer: New York Fire Department
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set
Published: 2005
CD Release Date: 2006-05-09
Music Label: Table of Elements
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Sun Blindness Music, for organ
- Summer Heat, for guitar
- The Second Fortress, for vox organ
- Dream Interpretation, for viola & violin
- Ex-Cathedra, for vox organ
- Carousel, for synthesizer
- A Midnight Rain of Green Wrens at the World's Tallest Building, for viola
- Hot Scoria, for guitar & cimbalom
- Stainless Steel Gamelan, cembalet & fretless guitar
- At About This Time Mozart Was Dead And Joseph Conrad Was Sailing the Se
- Terry's Cha-Cha, for ensemble
- After The Locust, for electric piano & thunder machine
- Big Apple Express, for viola, tape & voice
- Cold Starry Nights, for voice, sarinda & bowed cembalom
- Silent Shadows on Cinemaroc Island, for ensemble
Music reviews of Cale: New York in the 1960's
Music Review: dazzling, seminal and prescient
Rating: 5 Stars
There is little to add to an appraisal of this compendium that Brian Duguid hadn't already said, in his glowing 2001 Wire review of the original three separate CDs included in this (actual wooden) box set. But here goes...
Originality, as a concept, as an example, is borne out by precious few cultural artifacts. The aggressive experimentalism demonstrated by Cale and his peers is without precedent in rock and roll. It is no exaggeration to state that Cale, in these works assimilated and digested all the disparate sources of prior inspiration and influence--European symphonic tradition, serialism, Indian classical raga, American pop and blues, as well as Cageian modernism--and formulated them into stunning new realizations of what pop music could be.
No one outside of this small enclave was making sounds like this, in any genre anywhere else, and no one would until years later. Certain distant echoes surface: Alan Watts's 1962 "This Is It" from California, long called the first psychedlic record, is intriguing but not terribly similar and lacking Cale's feral drive and epic sensibility. Obviously many others were active in experimental jazz and classical forms, but shut off by choice from the world of rock and roll, and cloistered away from pop culture entirely.
These private recordings reflect an inner soundworld of such depth and richness they offer a completely new framework for hearing. One's approach to music is affected irrevocably. The notion of intense listening commences here--with Cale and the contributions of MacLise, Conrad, Jennings and others. After 45 years, the tapes of "Stainless Steel Gamelan" (a four-handed hammering/arpeggio of an electric guitar) or "Hot Scoria" (an enveloping, frenzied wash of sound) invite awe. The keyboard drones of "Sun Blindness Music" and "The Second Fortress" retain a mesmerizing quality of both the ancient past and distant future. Surely among Cale's best work.
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