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Stainless Gamelan

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Released
  
2002

Length
  
55:18

Release date
  
2002

Recorded
  
1965-1968

Artist
  
John Cale

Label
  
Table of the Elements

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Stainless Gamelan (1965-1968)
  
Vintage Violence (1970)

Genres
  
Drone music, Experimental rock, Avant-garde music, Minimal music

Similar
  
John Cale albums, Avant-garde albums

John Cale: Inside the Dream Syndicate Volume 3, Stainless Gamelan or simply Stainless Gamelan (and sometimes incorrectly Stainless "Steel" Gamelan, after the first track on the album) is an album by John Cale, better known for his work as the violist and founding member of the Velvet Underground. It is the fourth and final album in a loose anthology released by the independent label Table of the Elements. It follows Sun Blindness Music, Day Of Niagara and Dream Interpretation.

Contents

Stainless Gamelan, along with the other albums in the trilogy, involves Cale during his tenure with the minimalist group Theatre of Eternal Music.

Track listing

  1. "Stainless Steel Gamelan" - 10:25
  2. "At About This Time Mozart Was Dead And Joseph Conrad Was Sailing The Seven Seas Learning English" - 26:30
  3. "Terry's Cha-Cha" - 8:21
  4. "After the Locust" - 4:20
  5. "Big Apple Express" - 5:45

Personnel

  • John Cale – cembalet, wollensak, viola, electric piano
  • Sterling Morrison – guitar
  • Angus MacLise – percussions, tambourine
  • Terry Jennings – soprano saxophone
  • Tony Conrad – thunder machine
  • References

    Stainless Gamelan Wikipedia