New Tony Conrad CD JOAN OF ARC
 

New Tony Conrad CD JOAN OF ARC published by Table of the Elements has one track played on pump organ, originally recorded in 1968 as soundtrack for Piero Heliczer same name film.
CD cover does not include any stills from this film, but images from the Ira Cohen film The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda.

Please, no! Not Tony Conrad!!!

BLEURGH !

Ok.

On the basis of three recordings and a live show, I'm not a fan.

Go away.

If you need me, I'll be sitting in the corner sobbing.

Go on then.

Okay, I will, if that's what you want.

How can you fail to be moved,i ask you?

Ah, this reminds me that i missed the Tony Conrad 3-day retrospective held at Hallwalls Performaing Arts Center here in Buffalo last week...

I've seen him perform about a dozen times and have talked to him personally about 3 or 4 times... one of the strangest yet interesting people i've come across, and his performances are always quite hypnotic to me... i also did a live recording of him a couple years ago of him performing w/ Chris Corsano and Paul Flaherty of Dream Aktion Unit fame and local baritone sax blaster Steve Baczkowski.

Scott v,are you aware of any Terry Jennings recordings?It's sending me mad trying to find something.

All i know is the Walter De Maria stuff but he definately played a lot with Conrad.

I just saw this the other day on bullmoose.com
I might pick it up.

You must.Either that or some music history goes largely ignored.

okay.
if the store has it, ill get it.

Well done.

Thanks.
I like TOTE, but at my record store it's like 16$ a release.

What's TOTE?

table of the elements

Good for someone to spell it out for me.Retarded,i'm afraid.

ok i havnt heard either but i would say joan of arc. this is pretty useless advice but its advice non the less.

I won't make any more nasty comments about Tony Conrad. But I will ask if anyone has heard his collaboration CD with Charlemagne Palestine. To the extent that I can find TC interesting, that sounds interesting.


EDIT - I found a clip on a website whose name I can't spell. Charlemagne Palestine's contribution is beautiful, but Tony Conrad then goes and spoils it by scraping his violin all over it. I'm sorry, I know that's probably sacrilege, but that's how I feel about Tony Conrad.

I'd say go for 'Joan Of Arc' first and 'Four Violins' after.Both great records
but as you are a fan of NNCK,Corsano etc,i think it is a good way to start with the former and find a way of contextualizing this sort of 'outer limits' type of music.I'm not saying that all these musicians sound the same or particularly similar but there is some sort of lineage there,somewhere.I have to get around to upload or post the link for Walter De Maria's 'Cricket Music' because it is one hallucinatory beast of a record(that i'll never be able to find,methinks).