ANGUS MACLISE LP LA MONTE YOUNG-FLUXUS-TERRY RILEY-COIL

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ANGUS MACLISE

 UNTITLED LP

Counter Culture Chronicles

Rare album compiling recordings from the 60's-70's of Angus Maclise, early member of the Velvet Underground and La Monte Young's Theatre of Eternal Music.

Some info on the release:  Rare Grey area unnumbered issue on Counter Culture Chronicles without the inserts. This mysterious LP follows in the footsteps of "Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda", capturing primal, fiery jams both raw in sound quality and in performance. Flowing with what seems like no beginning or end, he creates a dizzying cerebral drone that combines the hypnotic techniques of Tony Conrad with the primitive sensibility of early Amon Duul I or MEV. Maclise creates a dizzying, joyous sound that remains unparalleled, even today. And his music, while being well-documented, is only barely available commercially. Here's hoping that LaMonte Young will soon open his archives, where a largeportion of MacLise's work resides.

The album compiles the following works:  

- 'Trance' (taken from single originally released on Fierce, 1988)
- 'The Joyous Lake' (taken from flexi disc, originally released on Aspen Magazine, 1970)
- excerpt from the soundtrack from "Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda", a film by Ira Cohen (1965).
- 'Chumlum' Soundtrack from Chumlum, a film by Ron Rice (1964).

The cover image, "Shadow of the Poet", is adapted from the Angus MacLise book "The Subliminal Report", Starstreams Poetry Series Number 4, published by Bardo Martrix, Kathmandu, Nepal 1975.

Angus MacLise was an American percussionist, composer, poet, occultist and calligrapher probably best known as the first drummer for the Velvet Underground.  MacLise was a member of La Monte Young's Theater of Eternal Music, with John Cale, Tony Conrad, Marian Zazeela and sometimes Terry Riley. He contributed to the early Fluxus newspaper VTre, edited by George Brecht, and was also an early member of The Velvet Underground, having been brought into the group by flatmate John Cale when they were living at 56 Ludlow Street in Manhattan.

MacLise played bongos and hand drums during 1965 with the first incarnation of the band. Although the Velvets regularly extemporised soundtracks to underground films, MacLise never officially recorded with them, and is often considered something of a shadowy, legendary figure in their history. When the opportunity of the band's first paying gig in November 1965 arose, Maclise promptly quit, suggesting the group had sold out. MacLise was replaced by Maureen Tucker, resulting in the "classic" lineup of The Velvet Underground. In 1966 when Velvet Underground singer Lou Reed was in hospital with hepatitis, MacLise rejoined the group for a few performances. By this time the Velvet Underground had found some notoriety (if not great financial success) and MacLise was anxious to rejoin the group, but this was explicitly refused by Reed.

After leaving the Velvet Underground for good, Angus travelled around between North Africa, India, Greece, the Middle East and finally found his place in Nepal. La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Ira Cohen and other artists with whom MacLise was close during his life continue to use his dating scheme laid out in his Calendar. A student of Aleister Crowley (he was working on a script for a film version of Crowley's Diary of a Drug Fiend before he died), he would begin to blend Tibetan mysticism with his music to create sound through various drone techniques. MacLise recorded a vast amount of music that went largely unreleased until 1999. These recordings, produced between the mid-'60s and the late-'70s, consist of tribal trance workouts, spoken word, poetry, Brion Gysin-like tape cut-ups and minimalist droning and electronics. Even though his music was mostly unheard, the experimental group Coil have mentioned strong influences from MacLise in both sound and lyric form. His poetry can be heard recited on the track "The Coppice Meat" and his mystical droning techniques influenced such Coil releases as Spring Equinox: Moon's Milk or Under An Unquiet Skull (Eskaton, 1998) and Astral Disaster (Threshold House, 1999).

Condition: Vinyl lies in excellent condition, has a couple of marks on one side that do not affect playing and plays nicely all along. while cover lies in mint condition, like new.

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