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| Early Minimalism, Vol. 1 | 
 enlarge | Creators: Alexandria Gelencser, Jan Tilman Schade, Matt Bauer, Tony Conrad, Jim O'rourke, Lutz Wernicke
Label: Table of Elements
Category: Music
List Price: $65.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 281760
Format: Box Set, Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 600401033128
EAN: 0600401033128
ASIN: B000062YAG
Release Date: November 18, 1997
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
Disc 2
| • | Early Minimalism: April 1965 |
Disc 3
| • | Early Minimalism: May 1965 |
Disc 4
| • | Early Minimalism: June 1965 | | • | Early Minimalism: June 1965 |
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| Customer Reviews:
 A legend in the making September 2, 2007
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Hey man, don't sell Tony Conrad short. He not only founded minimalism and the Velvet Underground, he invented LSD and microwave popcorn, wrote the script for the pilot episode of Gilligan's Island and, though this is little known, was at one time the Fifth Beatle and wrote all the material for their first two albums.
 "lost" piece of Minimalist music December 11, 2002
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Ignore the other three c.d.'s. They're cool, the videos are great (especially "flicker") but the point here is "four violins" recorded while Tony Conrad was still a member of the original Dream syndicate/theatre of eternal music, which is exceeded only by John Cage, Monk and Ellington in terms of influence on twentieth century american art music (primarily through a little rock band Conrad,Cale and Maclise formed after they left La Monte Young with some kids named Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison. Called themselves "the Velvet Underground". Maybe you've heard of them). It is an excellent piece of music, that before the current findings was along with the first two Velvets records (and that white album dream syndicate radio bootleg) the only way to get a general idea of how they sounded without taking Terry Riley's word for it (and they sounded nothing like "a rainbow in curved air"). Violin with guitar strings, played through guitar amps, layers of distortion, at times the timbres resemble accordions or bagpipes, all in those modes he's so crazy about that he seems to think are pre- pythagorean. One of the great compositions/recordings of minimal music, makes the entire recorded output of Phillip Glass and most of Reich sound like Mannaheim Steamroller.
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