JOHN CALE and TERRY RILEY Church Of Anthrax LP CBS 1971 UK reissue+stereo 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. Terry Riley has forged an exceptional avant garde
minimalist style, pioneering the use of tape loops and delay/feedback systems.
"CHURCH OF ANTHRAX" <reissue, originally published in 1971>
Produced by John Cale and John McClure
LP CBS RECORDS STEREO 64259
MADE IN ENGLAND MID/LATE-70s REPRESSING
SINGLE COVER
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LABEL: CBS - YELLOW/ORANGE LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Label Code: LC 0149
Catalog on cover: 64259
Catalog on labels: S 64259 (S 64259 A*) / S 64259 (S 64259 B*)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): S 64259 A1
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): S 64259 B1
On labels: top rim text "All Rights........Made in England"
bottom rim text "CBS & ®CBS Inc."
MCPS / BIEM
? 1971 CBS Inc.
Original sound recording made by CBS Inc.
CBS Records are the exclusive licensees for the UK
Rights Society / Publishing: MCPS, BIEM, Warner Bros. Music Ltd.
On back cover: 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
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 grading
RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
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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)
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