New York in the 1960s is an album by Welsh-born musician John Cale. It was released in August 2004 on American independent label Table of the Elements. The recordings were released as three individual cd's initially then later it was issued as a three-CD box set of Cale's recording from 1960s. There is also a 5 LP version
Track listing Disc 1 "Sun Blindness Music, for organ" – 31:37 "Summer Heat, for guitar" – 0:29 "The Second Fortress, for vox organ" – 10:38 Disc 2 "Dream Interpretation, for viola & violin" – 20:35 "Ex-Cathedra, for vox organ" – 5:04 "[untitled] for piano" – 12:30 "Carousel, for synthesizer" – 2:34 "A Midnight Rain of Green Wrens at the World's Tallest Building, for viola" – 3:20 "Hot Scoria, for guitar & cimbalom" – 9:20 Disc 3 "Stainless Steel Gamelan, cembalet & fretless guitar" – 10:24 "At About This Time Mozart Was Dead And Joseph Conrad Was Sailing the Seven Seas Learning English pt. 1, for wollensak, viola & guitar" – 26:29 "Terry's Cha-Cha, for ensemble" – 8:21 "After the Locust, for electric piano & thunder machine" – 4:19 "Big Apple Express, for viola, tape & voice" – 7:45 "Cold Starry Nights, for voice, sarinda & bowed cembalom" – 2:19 "Silent Shadows on Cinemaroc Island, for ensemble" – 8:42
Personnel John Cale – viola, organ, piano, electric piano, guitar, electronics, cembalet Sterling Morrison – guitar Angus MacLise – cimbalom, tambourine, percussion Terry Jennings – soprano saxophone Tony Conrad – violin Jack Smith – voices New York Fire Department – voices
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