In 1966 while performing in Andy Warhol's audio-visual spectacle the "Exploding Plastic Inevitable", the Velvet Underground recorded the songs that were to become their first release, including its final track, "European Son". During the recording of "European Son" John Cale payed homage to La Monte Young by scraping a chair across the studio floor, crashing it into a pile of plates. In the same year the newly opened Foksal Gallery in Warsaw held it's first 'audio-visual session', titled "5x", which began with an improvised performance by Cornelius Cardew, David Bedford, and John Thilbury, titled "La Monte Young Poem". The track posted here time-stretches VU's 5 seconds of homage to, in turn, pay a 5 minute homage to Foksal Gallery and "5x" instigators Grzegorz Kowalski, Zygmunt Krauze, Henryk Morel, and Cezary Szubartowski. This is part of a work for an exhibition in the same gallery, titled "The Proof Reader / Śledź zmiany."
Daniel Malone, 2013.

European Son (La Monte Young Poem, After 5x)

Machine One (Field Recording)Project 1990Now! / Donetsk Ukraine

D.Malone

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