JOHN CALE and TERRY RILEY Church Of Anthrax LP CBS 1971 UK 1st press+ster 64259

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JOHN CALE AND TERRY RILEY

Founding member of the Velvet Underground, then a producer, 

collaborator, solo artist, and soundtrack composer.

While John Cale is one of the most famous and, in his own way, influential underground rock musicians, 

he is also one of the hardest to pin down stylistically. Much has been made of his schooling in classical 

and avant-garde music, yet much of what he's recorded has been decidedly song-oriented, dovetailing close 

to the mainstream at times. Terming him a forefather of punk and new wave isn't exactly accurate either. 

Those investigating his work for the first time under that premise may be surprised at how consciously accessible 

much of his output is, at times approaching (but not quite attaining) a fairly "normal" rock sound. 

There is always a tension between the experimental and the accessible in Cale's solo recordings, 

meaning that he usually finds himself (not unwillingly) caught between the cracks: too weird for commercial success, 

and yet not really weird or daring enough to place him among the top rank of rock's innovators

Terry Riley has forged an exceptional avant garde minimalist style, 

pioneering the use of tape loops and delay/feedback systems.

Produced by John Cale and John McClure

1971     LP     CBS RECORDS       64259   STEREO

MADE IN ENGLAND    ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING

Released in a single unlaminated cover

WITH COMPANY INNER SLEEVE

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LABEL: CBS - ORANGE LABEL -  BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: 64259

Catalog on labels: S 64259 (C 30131) S 64259 A   /   S 64259 (C 30131) S 64259 B

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): S 64259 A1

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): S 64259 B1

On labels: top rim text reads "All Rights......Prohibited"

bottom rim text reads 'Made in England'

?1971

Rights Society / Publishing: Warner Bros. Music Ltd.

On Back Cover: Produced by John Cale and John McClure

Notes by John Cale

© 1970 by Warner Bros. Music Ltd.

All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.

CBS is a Trademark of the Columbia Broadcasting System Inc., U.S.A.

SHOREPAK by Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., ENGLAND. Patents Pending

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: CHURCH OF ANTHRAX

THE HALL OF MIRRORS IN THE PALACE AT VERSAILLES

Side B: THE SOUL OF PATRICK LEE

IDES OF MARCH - THE PROTEGE

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A one-time-only collaboration between former Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale and minimalist composer Terry Riley, 1971's Church of Anthrax doesn't sound too much like the solo work of either. Around this time, Riley's works were along the lines of "A Rainbow in Curved Air" or "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band": pattern music with an obsessive attention to repetition and tricks with an analogue delay machine that gave his music a refractory, almost hallucinogenic quality. Though Cale was trained in a similar aesthetic (he played with La Monte Young, surely the most minimal of all minimalist composers), he had largely left it behind by 1971, and so Church of Anthrax mixes Riley's drones and patterns with a more muscular and melodic bent versed in both free jazz and experimental rock. Not quite modern classical music, but not at all rock & roll either, Church of Anthrax sounds in retrospect like it was a huge influence on later post-minimalist composers like Andrew Poppy, Wim Mertens, and Michael Nyman, who mix similar doses of minimalism, rock, and jazz. On its own merits, the album is always interesting, and the centerpiece "The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace at Versailles" is probably the point where Riley and Cale approach each other on the most equal footing...(AllMusic)