John Cale & Terry Riley ‎– Church Of Anthrax

Church of Anthrax
It is common when John Cale and Terry Riley doing the uncommon things.

An experimentation session between two minimalism devotion composer.

My copy has no mould SID but is otherwise identical.

Why is this a reissue if it looks exactly the same as an original release?

5 Stars. This albums rocks hard and just as fast as a bull seeing red straight out of the gate? Fresh out the thrones of The Velvet Underground, John Cale records some of his best work ever right herein this album. But Terry Riley and John Cale....?? You haven't heard real music until you've heard this album or at least one of there other great solo works.

This is a misunderstood and underappreciated album. It came on the heels of Riley's "In C" and "Rainbow in Curved Air". But you can't understand this album as a sequel to those masterpieces. This is a creative collaboration in which Riley demonstrates his creative range beyond the work of those previous albums. John Cale was a member of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's Dream Syndicate producing meditative drone music with non-western tunings.
This is not a rock album despite it being a collaboration with Cale whose creative range outside of rock music is much lesser known. Rather this is a creative efforts by two pioneering musicians exploring new territory. At worst it is a flawed masterpiece and it will likely not please the casual listener. But Cale and Riley fans should definitely be familiar with this set of tracks.
In the Hall of Mirrors will always be one of my favorite music tracks.

his opus magnum. John Cale should have stopped his music career after recording this collabo with Riley - and set up a career as a poet.

WoW this is some powerful stuff right here.