JOHN CALE
New York in the 1960s
Table of the Elements, 2003

“You'd think Table of the Elements had cornered the market on historic minimalist documents. And they pretty much have."
-- Pitchfork

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, recorded and produced by Tony Conrad and now available in the massive Table of the Elements 3xCD (5xLP) boxed set, "New York in the 1960s."

"The recordings in this three-disc series come from another underground, a deep vein of labor and experimentation that parallels Cale's time with the Velvets. It is jubilantly private music, made alone and with like-minded spirits—Tony Conrad, Sterling Morrison, original Velvets percussionist Angus MacLise—far from the hot light of the Velvets' public notoriety and the rough politics of Cale's relationship with Reed. And it is important music, an illuminating, heretofore unknown chapter in Cale's creative advance.

"What is truly extraordinary about the sixteen performances spread across these three volumes—Sun Blindness Music, Dream Interpretation and Stainless Gamelan—is their explosive foresight. The florid distortion of Cale's guitar pieces and the tandem bull-elephant hum of his viola and Conrad's violin prefigure the aggressive majesty and expressive dissonance of punk rock, No Wave and the Transfigured Guitar movement led by Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham and Sonic Youth. In his pulsing keyboard essays, Cale marries the grace and science of minimalism to the mainstream throb of rock & roll, a full decade ahead of Brian Eno and the Berlin-era David Bowie. When Cale tests the barriers of possibility in his tools—the guts of an abandoned piano, the jammed keys on an organ, the pause control of a Wollensak tape recorder—he generates a synthetic music that connects Edgard Varése, Henry Cowell and Karlheinz Stockhausen with contemporary electronica and turntablism.

"These recordings have been virtually unheard since they were made more than three decades ago. But their prescience is undeniable. So is their power and purity. Working in the shadows of both pop and art, building on discoveries and inventions from his life before and with the Velvets, Cale committed to tape a highly personal and exhilarating vision of the future of music. It now sounds like fact."

-- David Fricke, from the liner notes

Includes performances by fellow VELVET UNDERGROUND members STERLING MORRISON and ANGUS MACLISE and minimalist pioneer TONY CONRAD

John Cale "Stainless Steel Gamelan" (mid 1960s)

è Miccomacco.
when duty calls- 
nel cuore mi scoppia.
well done, like a bomb.

Miccomacco Bastardo

22 10 2018 Anais Solo at Petersburger Art Space

Stasia is taken from Rudi Fischerlehner´s drum solo album 15 8 SLUM
https://not-applicable.bandcamp.com/album/15-8-slum

15 8 SLUM

15 8 SLUM /Stasia

A song in bad espanyol about driving behind a pig transporter in Mexico and the several tries to pass the truck.

Arriba

Excerpt from the upcoming album 'Hypertide Over Kiribati', out on Not Applicable, 6th September 2019.  
Lothar Ohlmeier - Bass Clarinet
Rudi Fischerlehner - Drums
Isambard Khroustaliov - Modular Synthesizer & Computer

https://not-applicable.bandcamp.com/album/hypertide-over-kiribati

Hypertide Over Kiribati

Xenofox is the duo of Olaf Rupp on electric guitar and Rudi Fischerlehner on drums and percussion. 
Get the full Macondo EP on 
https://farai-records.bandcamp.com/album/macondo

Macondo

Xenofox - Macondo (excerpt)

Mia Dyberg - alto saxophone
Rudi Fischerlehner - drums, percussion

Get the whole album "Pause" on
https://farai-records.bandcamp.com/album/pause

Mia Dyberg and Rudi Fischerlehner worked together in different band constellations over the last years, and at the same time they developed a quite unique duo universe, reaching trance states through minimalism and abstract beats, throwing chunks of improvised noise at each other or trying to emulate the acoustic environment of a park in the middle of Berlin Kreuzberg.

15 8 SLUM /Stasia

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