JOHN CALE/TERRY RILEY Church of Anthrax 1971 UK CBS 1st PRESS MINT
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Jun 18, 2012
Sold Date
Jun 8, 2012
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JOHN CALE/TERRY RILEY Church of Anthrax 1971 UK CBS 1st PRESS MINT
JOHN CALE/TERRY RILEYChurch of Anthrax
UK CBS (64259) FIRST PRESSING (April 1971) OF JOHN CALE & TERRY RILEY'S ONLY COLLABORATION "Church Of Anthrax"
BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS WONDERFUL RECORD
SEEN JUST ONE OR TWO PLAYS AND DELIVERS FLAWLESS MINT AUDIO THROUGHOUT
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE SOLID ORANGE CBS LABELS
MATRIX: S 64259 A1 / S 64259 B1
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL SINGLE SLEEVE PRINTED BY “Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., England Patents pending”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL CBS ADVERTISING INNER SLEEVE
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 centrepiece "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
Side 1:
Church Of Antrax (9:00)
The Hall Of Mirrors In The Palace At Versailles (7:55)
Side 2:
The Soul Of Patrick Lee (2:47)
Ides Of March (11:03
The Protege (2:47)
LABELS: MINT-
Clean, bright and unmarked labels with just one/two light spindle traces
VINYL Visual: MINT/NEAR MINT
Side One is completely unmarked, Side Two has a light brush mark on the edge - this has no audio impact
VINYL Audio: MINT
Outstanding audio throughout with a crystal clear, deep, rich and detailed sound - beautifully recorded and engineered.
My play-check at loud volume detected nothing to fault - the payback is flawless and the sound performance is exceptionally clean - fantastic copy
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Superb example which has no real wear to speak of - just a couple of small creases to the spine - all edges are crisp and sharp and all spine text is clear and bold
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVE WITH ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
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