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Artist:	CONRAD WITH FAUST, TONY
Title:	Outside The Dream Syndicate ALIVE
Label:	TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	TOE 048CD

"Minimalist pioneer Tony Conrad and notorious Krautrock progenitors Faust met just three times: in the studio to record the ground-breaking Outside the Dream Syndicate in 1972, and twice on the concert stage in the mid-1990s. This recording documents their third and final encounter, at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, February 18, 1995. The difference between the original session and this live event is astonishing. While Conrad's aggressive string sound was tamed in the studio by producer Uwe Nettlebeck (Conrad has complained that the mix made him 'sound like a hippy'), here it is full of menace and ferocity, and in tandem attack with the equally belligerent violin of Jim O'Rourke, it conjures a raging wall of sound. When the Faust rhythm section finally kicks in, no one is in the mood for restraint, and the whole thing bolts on a merciless, scorched-earth gallop. Bassist Jean-Herve Peron plays with such fury that he snaps a string (no easy feat on a bass guitar), shreds the flesh on his fingers, and is soon covered in blood; meanwhile drummer Werner 'Zappi' Diermaier pounds away, standing, in his inimitable, robotic style. After a relentless 40-minute onslaught, Peron signals the set's abrupt conclusion by smashing a brick with a sledgehammer, while Diermaier destroys his drum kit a la Keith Moon. At this point the elegant atmosphere of Queen Elizabeth Hall thoroughly disintegrates, and the antagonized crowd nearly riots. Hecklers and supporters continue to shout each other down -- until they're drowned out by a rollicking encore. The booklet contains brief interviews with Conrad and Peron." 2005 release.

Artist:	CONRAD WITH FAUST, TONY
Title:	Outside the Dream Syndicate 30th Anniv. Ed.
Label:	TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	TOE 302CD

Listed as #7 on Alan Licht's "Minimal Top Ten". "Back in stock in a budget-conscious 2xCD jewel case format. The silence ended here. Made over three days on a remote farm in northern Germany, Outside the Dream Syndicate -- Tony Conrad's historic 1972 meeting with rock visionaries Faust -- was the composer and violinist's debut album and a revelatory document of his central role in the birth of minimalism. Issued only in Europe, it was the first officially available record of Conrad's microtonal explorations, initiated in the Dream Syndicate in the early 1960s. This 30th Anniversary Edition features a second disc of originally unreleased music from the sessions and restores Outside the Dream Syndicate to its rightful place in history: as the vital link between early minimalism and the rock avant-garde and a gripping testament to the power and beauty of the Drone."

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