Angus MacLise + Tony Conrad—Dreamweapon III (1st pressing) M
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This is unplayed deadstock recently uncovered by the label in storage. Condition appears pristine. This is the first pressing. Silkscreened jacket. Published by Boo-Hooray.
About the music:
“Angus
MacLise was the Velvet Underground’s first drummer. He withdrew when he
found out that at a paying job he had to start and stop playing when
told to. No one told Angus to stop playing. So the job of a working
musician was impossible for Angus, and he taught us all a lesson about
purity of spirit.” — Lou Reed
“Check out the primitive, burnt drone of 'Druid’s Leafy Nest' from Dreamweapon III” – Altered Zones
“… MacLise was a living link connecting the Beats, the Fluxus and the Factory scenes, and the hippies.” — Flavorwire
Angus
MacLise was an American polyglot and foundational multi-media artist.
Working in dream-like calligraphy, poetry, small press publishing, and
musical composition, he was active in New York, San Francisco, Paris,
London and Kathmandu from the 1950s through the 1970s. MacLise is
perhaps best known as the original drummer of the Velvet
Underground—leaving the band after he felt they had "sold out."
But
MacLise's most important work had only just begun. Jumping from one
seminal scene to another, MacLise produced spiritually immense art in
solitude and collaborated with 1960s art groups like Fluxus
(George Maciunas, Yoko Ono), the Theatre of the Ridiculous, and
underground filmmaker and exoticist Jack Smith. As a publisher, MacLise
worked with the likes of Paul Bowles, Charles Henri Ford, Gregory Corso
and Diane Di Prima among others. On Summer Solstice 1979, MacLise died
in Kathmandu, and was cremated in the fashion of Tibetan Buddhist
funerary rites.
A
suitcase of Angus MacLise’s artwork, publications, and manuscript as
well as more than 100 hours of recorded music was left with La Monte
Young and Marian Zazeela for safe-keeping forty years ago. This
extraordinary time-vault was the foundation of the
Dreamweapon series of records.
Dreamweapon III features previously unreleased recordings by MacLise and composer Tony Conrad.
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