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| The Hall Of Mirrors In The PalaceA3.The Soul Of Patrick LeeB2.Customers who bought this item also bought...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.Andrew Poppy, Wim Mertens, and Michael Nyman, who mix similar doses of minimalism, rock, and jazz.The low point is Cale's solo writing credit, "The Soul of Patrick Lee," a slight vocal interlude by Adam Miller that feels out of place in these surroundings.Terry Riley Biography
While John Cale is one of the most famous and, in his own way, influential underground rock musicians, he is also one of the hardest to pin down stylistically.Note: Wireless carriers may charge fees for receiving and using the mobile web to view this Yahoo!Build your own online store or Advertise with us.Current Advertisers Sign InHelp improve Yahoo!Shopping APIs, now powering Yahoo!Learn more about our paid syndication program.Download John Cale Ringtones Instantly to your Cell.Find Great Deals on Your Favorite Music.Buy MusicWant to see your products in Yahoo!Current Advertisers Sign InHelp improve Yahoo!View RSS FeedMake money with Yahoo!Shopping APIs, now powering Yahoo!Church of Anthrax is a collaboration between John Cale and Terry Riley.John Cale brings a harder edge to Terry Riley's hypnotic stylings, while Riley returns Cale to his experimental roots (including Cage inspired toy piano), without losing focus.Track listing
All tracks written by John Cale and Terry Riley except as indicated."The Soul of Patrick Lee" is the only vocal track on the album.You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This page was last modified 16:34, 15 October 2007.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.In our conversation, I mentioned "the album with John Cale," in a sly attempt to elicit some recollections or impressions.The extended instrumentals are easily the best thing about this one.The title track, my own personal favorite, starts off like a jam in the tradition of the VU, with Cale's gruff bass lines prominent in the mix.The drum work, by the way, adds quite a bit to this track with a jazzy energy and blending with Riley's organ spasms.Another great piece, "The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace at Versailles" places Cale behind the keys, pounding out block chords on piano.To this Riley adds spacey, trilly sax in the A Rainbow in Curved Air vein, one track in each channel, giving the impression of a ritual call between two animals.Cale again plonks out alongside this with rhythm piano in the right speaker.Each channel is backed by separate drumming.Written by Cale alone, "The Soul of Patrick Lee" interestingly features an outside vocalist, although the song has Cale's sound stamped all over it in the lyrics and melody, so that you can easily envision him singing it.Totally excellent reissue of a record that we've always loved, but love even better at this nice low price!Although you may not like John Cale's solo stuff (or you may), this collaboration with minimalist composer Terry Riley is an amazing album of long modal instrumental tracks (with one vocal one) that grooves along in a spacey funky way.Riley plays piano, organ, and soprano sax; and Cale joins in on bass, guitar, viola, and harpsichord.The two of them groove together in these totally cool tracks that build and build, with minimal lines repeating over and over endlessley, but also in a way that sounds very funky in parts.American music in the 20th Century!Moondog got his starts as a blind musician working the streets of New York at the...Beefheartian take on country rock!The groundbreaking electronic work of Pierre Henry remixed for a future funk audience!Flower Travellin Band have a basic approach that's ...Click here to make a suggestion.Velvet Underground, should have done the same.Bet the people at CBS were impressed, too.So impressed they put out an album of keyboard doodles posing as improvisations.Cale who bought the noise element to The Velvet Underground.Cale reports that after much of the album had been completed Riley visited the studio where Cale had been producing the material and on hearing what Cale had done to the tapes walked out in disgust and would have nothing more to do with the project.Cale on piano and Riley on sax, but it sounds like a small orchestra, as repeated sections seem to tumble off into infinite reflections of themselves.Chaucerian England complete with a New Seekers backing vocal.The meandering piano starts to get stuck in grooves along with the drums.You can almost hear the sound of traffic, car horns and shouting taxi drivers. |
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