- Audio CD (Jun 17 2008)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Wounded Bird Records
- ASIN: B0015I2PX6
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #51,382 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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John Cale is best known as a member of the Velvet Underground. Terry Riley is best known for his exploration of avant-garde music. They formed a one time collaboration on Church Of Anthrax. This has been one of the long sought after CD requests for it has never been issued on CD until now! Fans of both of these artists will scarf this one up!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A fine album - and Amazon has garbled the names,
This review is from: Church Of Anthrax (Audio CD)
This album by John Cale and Terry Riley is lots of fun. Cale went on in one direction and Riley in another, but this is one place where they worked together. Interestingly, almost 10 years before this album, both Cale and Riley were associated with Lamont Young, the man Riley calls the founder of minimalism.Riley took minimalist ideas to ensemble works like the ground-breaking "In C" but mostly into solo performance. Cale joined the famous experimental rock group "Velvet Underground" and went on to have a varied career as musician, composer, collaborator, producer, and artist. This albums features two of the smartest, most interesting musicians in the second half of the 20th century performing together.
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4.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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about time,
By David Comstock "Know-It-All" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Church Of Anthrax (Audio CD)
Having heard about this legendary collaboration between John Cale and Terry Riley, I was excited to see it finally appear on cd. I expected 'dark', I expected drone, I expected minimalism. What I didn't expect was "Ides of March." This 10 minute jam with keyboards and drums cooks like nothing else this side of the "Crossroads"/"Spoonful" jam on Cream's Wheels of Fire. Good God, buy this if you want your music to transport you to another planet! _
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A good instrumental work,
By Marty Jay "EmJay" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Church Of Anthrax (Audio CD)
A Cale collaboration with Terry Riley that works welland has some good instrumental pieces using drums, oboe, piano, viola and organ. There is one track [The soul of patrick Lee] that has vocals on it. It seems out of place on this album, but is an ok song anyway. The songs " Ides of March" and "In the Hall of mirrors in the Palace of Versailles" are standouts. 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Timeless...,
By applewood - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Church Of Anthrax (Audio CD)
Originally recorded in 1971, this collaborative (mostly instrumental) jam of Cale and Riley is a rare treat. Today it barely fills half a CD, but in that brief spell they bang and pound their way out into the open, on the border between space and density, and show us a work of genius. (It sounds like Riley sets the "tone" with droning percussive patterns, while Cale fills them out with energy, passion and whatever melody the compositions may have.)This was one of my favorite albums in the late 70's, and I'm surprised how much it still rocks (rhythmically like a small boat tossed desperately on a big sea...) and moves me. The multiple layers of piano, organ, synth, horns, viola, guitar and percussion are a perfect balance of disjointed free fall and driving progressive patterns. And the one lyrical song is wonderfully enigmatic and evocative of a timeless moment in Wales. Ah, wouldn't it be grand if they reunited for a 40th year anniversary... (from album cover..."...as soon as the time came to go, the dramatic sequence of obliteration took its toll on the landscape; the sky was immune. Gone." - John Cale) |
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