John Cale / Tony Conrad / Angus MacLise / La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela - Inside The Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day Of Niagara (1965)
Label:
Catalog#:
W 74
Format:
CD, Album
Country:
US
Released:
2000
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Modern Classical,
Experimental,
Minimal
Credits
Artwork By [Additional Layout] -
Henry H. Owings
Artwork By [Design And Direction] - Jeff Hunt , Susan Archie
Artwork By [Illustration] - Tia Umberger
Composed By - Angus MacLise , John Cale , La Monte Young , Marian Zazeela , Tony Conrad
Executive Producer - Jeff Hunt , Kristina Johnson , Zach Cincotta
Percussion - Angus MacLise
Viola - John Cale
Violin - Tony Conrad
Vocals - La Monte Young , Marian Zazeela
Artwork By [Design And Direction] - Jeff Hunt , Susan Archie
Artwork By [Illustration] - Tia Umberger
Composed By - Angus MacLise , John Cale , La Monte Young , Marian Zazeela , Tony Conrad
Executive Producer - Jeff Hunt , Kristina Johnson , Zach Cincotta
Percussion - Angus MacLise
Viola - John Cale
Violin - Tony Conrad
Vocals - La Monte Young , Marian Zazeela
Notes
Original recording New York City, 25 April 1965
Digital Mastering: Griffin Mastering, Atlanta
Thank You: Susan Archie, Stephen Fenton, Lance Ledbetter, Edward Lindahl, Hetty MacLise, Ossian MacLise, Jon Philpot and John Fahey's Revenant
Impossible Without: Dean Blackwood
Digital Mastering: Griffin Mastering, Atlanta
Thank You: Susan Archie, Stephen Fenton, Lance Ledbetter, Edward Lindahl, Hetty MacLise, Ossian MacLise, Jon Philpot and John Fahey's Revenant
Impossible Without: Dean Blackwood
Recommendations
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Tony Conrad - Early Minimalism Volume One (3xCD + CD, Enh + Box)
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Tony Conrad - Slapping Pythagoras (CD, Album)
Quite famous for the ensuing controversy between La Monte Young and Tony Conrad about “authorship”, the release of “Inside the Dream Syndicate Vol I: Day of Niagara” by the venerable Table of the Elements label is probably not its most essential. True, this is one of the earliest documents on American minimalism (1965) and it has dense layers of abrasive drones but unfortunately this overall sounds like an awful bootleg. And yes, there’s a bump at 9:03 on the CD! If you want to hear much more relevant and better sounding stuff from the same era, go for Tony Conrad’s Early Minimalism 4-CD set: among other things it contains the original “Four Violins” recording (1964) and it kicks ass!