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New York in the 1960s

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Released
  
17 August 2004

Label
  
Table of the Elements

Length
  
186:11

New York in the 1960s (2004)
  
Le Bataclan '72 (2004)

Genre
  
Drone, avant-garde, minimalist

New York in the 1960s is an album by Welsh-born musician John Cale. It was released in August 2004 on American independent label Table of the Elements. It was three-CD box set of Cale's recording from 1960s.

Contents

Track listing

Disc 1
  1. "Sun Blindness Music, for organ" – 31:37
  2. "Summer Heat, for guitar" – 0:29
  3. "The Second Fortress, for vox organ" – 10:38
Disc 2
  1. "Dream Interpretation, for viola & violin" – 20:35
  2. "Ex-Cathedra, for vox organ" – 5:04
  3. "[untitled] for piano" – 12:30
  4. "Carousel, for synthesizer" – 2:34
  5. "A Midnight Rain of Green Wrens at the World's Tallest Building, for viola" – 3:20
  6. "Hot Scoria, for guitar & cimbalom" – 9:20
Disc 3
  1. "Stainless Steel Gamelan, cembalet & fretless guitar" – 10:24
  2. "At About This Time Mozart Was Dead And Joseph Conrad Was Sailing the Seven Seas Learning English pt. 1, for wollensak, viola & guitar" – 26:29
  3. "Terry's Cha-Cha, for ensemble" – 8:21
  4. "After the Locust, for electric piano & thunder machine" – 4:19
  5. "Big Apple Express, for viola, tape & voice" – 7:45
  6. "Cold Starry Nights, for voice, sarinda & bowed cembalom" – 2:19
  7. "Silent Shadows on Cinemaroc Island, for ensemble" – 8:42

Personnel

  • John Cale – viola, organ, piano, electric piano, guitar, electronics, cembalet
  • Sterling Morrison – guitar
  • Angus MacLise – cimbalom, tamburine, percussion
  • Terry Jennings – soprano saxophone
  • Tony Conrad – violin
  • Jack Smith – voices
  • New York Fire Department – voices

    • References

    New York in the 1960s Wikipedia
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