John Cale - New York In The 1960's

John Cale's great credit both inside and outside the Velvet Underground was to have found the inoculation dosage that would addict the music industry to sound without alienating one world from the other. But outside the "official" VU there was also an uncut version of the virus, incubated behind the slum walls of the 1960s Lower East Side, and maintained live in the liquid nitrogen of these insolently recorded reel-to-reel audiotapes and produced by Tony Conrad and now available in the Table of the Elements 3xCD boxed set "New York in the 1960s".

Earliest recordings by Velvet Underground founder and Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame member John Cale. Gorgeous, limited-edition release in Black-Lacquered Wood Box with black paper libretto. Features rare and previously unreleased recordings. Includes performances by fellow Velvet Underground members Sterling Morrison and Angus Maclise and minimalist pioneer Tony Conrad.

 Disc 1

   1. Sun Blindness Music
   2. Summer Heat
   3. The Second Fortress

 Disc 2

   1. Dream Interpretation
   2. Ex-Cathedra
   3. [untitled] for piano
   4. Carousel
   5. A Midnight Rain of Green Wrens at the World's Tallest Building
   6. Hot Scoria

 Disc 3

   1. Stainless Steel Gamelan
   2. At About This Time Mozart Was Dead And Joseph Conrad Was Sailing the Seven Seas Learning English pt.
   3. Terry's Cha-Cha
   4. After The Locust
   5. Big Apple Express
   6. Cold Starry Nights
   7. Silent Shadows on Cinemaroc Island

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