JOHN CALE/TERRY RILEY Church of Anthrax 1971 UK CBS *PROMO* - NEAR MINT
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Jan 13, 2018
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Jan 3, 2018
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JOHN CALE/TERRY RILEY Church of Anthrax 1971 UK CBS *PROMO* - NEAR MINT
JOHN CALE/TERRY RILEYChurch of Anthrax
UK CBS (64259) FIRST PRESS *PROMO* (April 1971) OF JOHN CALE & TERRY RILEY'S ONLY COLLABORATION "Church Of Anthrax"
GREAT COPY OF THIS WONDERFUL RECORD
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE SOLID ORANGE CBS LABELS
MATRIX: S 64259 A1 / S 64259 B1
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL SINGLE SLEEVE PRINTED BY “Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., England Patents pending” WITH *PROMOTIONAL COPY* STICKER
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 Anthrax (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: EXCELLENT+
Clean, unmarked labels - a few spindle traces - not played that much
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like new
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Plays beautifully throughout with little to fault - slight touch of low-level surface on some of the quietest moments - nothing really - great copy
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
Apart from some slight grubbiness to the white back the sleeve is crisp and sharp and all text on the spine is clear and bold and the *promo* sticker shows no sign of attempted removal
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818 (GS 7.0.10 (818))
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