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Angus MacLise (March 4, 1938 - June 21, 1979) was a percussionist, composer, mystic, shaman, poet, occultist and calligrapher. He is probably best known as the first drummer for the Velvet Underground, but had an intriguing career outside of that group. March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ...
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Percussion instruments are music instruments played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped, hence the percussive name. ...
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The Velvet Underground and Nico (from left to right: John Cale, Nico, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker) The Velvet Underground (Affectionately known as The Velvets, or V.U. for short) was an American rock and roll band of the late 1960s. ...
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MacLise was a member of La Monte Young's Theater of Eternal Music, with John Cale and Tony Conrad. He was also an early member of The Velvet Underground, having been brought into the group by flatmate John Cale. MacLise played bongos and hand drums during 1965 with the first incarnation of the band. Although the band regularly extemporised sound tracks to underground films, MacLise never officially recorded with the group, and is often considered something of a shadowy, legendary figure in the band's history. When the opportunity of the band's first paying gig in November 1965 arose, Maclise promptly quit, suggesting the group had sold out. La Monte Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer whose eccentric and often hard-to-find works have been included among the most important post World War II avant-garde or experimental music. ...
It was a mid-sixties experimental musical group featuring La Monte Young and John Cale. ...
John Cale is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. ...
Tony Conrad, (born Anthony S. Conrad in 1940), is an avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer. ...
The Velvet Underground (sometimes abbreviated as The Velvets or V.U.) was one of the most influential and important rock bands in music history, whose influence has left a mark across several genres and different types of music. ...
John Cale is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. ...
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Maclise was replaced by Maureen Tucker, resulting in the "classic" lineup of The Velvet Underground. In 1966 when Velvet Undergroud singer Lou Reed was in hospital with hepatitis, MacLise rejoined the group for a few performances. By this time the Velvet Underground had found some notoriety (if not great financial success) and MacLise was anxious to rejoin the group, but this was explicitly refused by Reed. Maureen Ann Moe Tucker (born August 26, 1944, in New Jersey, United States) is best known for having been the drummer for the rock group The Velvet Underground. ...
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After leaving the Velvet Underground for good, Angus traveled around between North Africa, India, Greece, the Middle East and finally finding his place in Nepal. A student of both La Monte Young and Aleister Crowley (he was working a script for a film version of Crowley's Diary Of A Drug Fiend before he died), he would begin to blend Tibetan mysticism with his music to create magickal forms of transcendent sound through various drone techniques. He died of tuberculosis in Kathmandu in 1979. Northern Africa (UN subregion) geographic, including above North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent. ...
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La Monte Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer whose eccentric and often hard-to-find works have been included among the most important post World War II avant-garde or experimental music. ...
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Kathmandu (Nepali: काठमाडौं) is the capital city of Nepal and it is also the largest city in Nepal. ...
Music Maclise recorded a vast amount of music that went largely unreleased until 1999. These recordings, produced between the mid-60's and the late 70's, consist of tribal trance workouts, spoken word, poetry, Brion Gysin-like tape cut-ups and minimalist droning and electronics. They can be currently found on: Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a writer and painter. ...
The cut-up technique is a literary form or method in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text. ...
Minimal music is sometimes applied to classical music of the last 45 years which displays some or all of the following features: emphasis on consonant harmony, if not functional tonality; reiteration of musical phrases, with subtle, gradual, and/or infrequent variation over long periods of time, possibly limited to simple...
In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout much or all of a piece, sustained or repeated, and most often establishing a tonality upon which the rest of the piece is built. ...
Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ...
- Invasion Of The Thunderbolt Pagoda(Stiltbreeze, 1999)
- Brain Damage In Oklahoma City(Siltbreeze, 2000)
- The Cloud Doctrine(Sub Rosa, 2002)
- Astral Collapse(Locust, 2003)
Aside from private solo recordings and his stint with the Velvet Underground, he also collaborated with Tony Conrad, John Cale and La Monte Young on several other recordings: Tony Conrad, (born Anthony S. Conrad in 1940), is an avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer. ...
John Cale is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. ...
La Monte Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer whose eccentric and often hard-to-find works have been included among the most important post World War II avant-garde or experimental music. ...
- Inside The Dream Syndicate Vol.I: Day Of Niagara(Table Of Elements, 2000)
- Inside The Dream Syndicate Vol.III: Stainless Steel Gamelan(Table Of Elements, 2002)
- An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music: First A-Chronology 1921-2001/Vol.1(Sub Rosa, 2002)
Influence Even though his music was mostly unheard, the experimental group Coil have mentioned strong influences from Maclise in both sound and lyric form. His poetry can be heard recited on the track "The Coppice Meat" and his mystical droning techniques influenced such Coil releases as Spring Equinox: Moon's Milk or Under An Unquiet Skull (Eskaton, 1998) and Astral Disaster (Threshold House, 1999). It is interesting to point out the similarities and differences between Astral Disaster and Astral Collapse. Besides the names, their cover art is strikingly similar, almost coming off as mirror images of each other. Both are experimental workouts in electronics and modular synthetics. Yet, Collapse is a compilation of recordings made during the 70's that was released in 2003, while Disaster is an album-proper released in 1999. Also, two years before vocalist Jhonn Balance's death in 2004, he expressed interest in publishing Angus' poetry in book form. Coil was an experimental music group that has worked in several forms of music (electronic and otherwise) such as industrial, noise, ambient and dark ambient, neo-folk, spoken word, drone music, and minimalism. ...
John Balance (first name also spelled Jhon and Jhonn; born Geff Rushton/Geoffrey Laurence Burton; February 16, 1962 - November 13, 2004) was the founder and half of the experimental music group Coil. ...
Notes - Maclise appears in two pictures in the Peel_Slowly_and_See Velvet underground box set booklet. Peel Slowly and See is a five-disc box set of material by The Velvet Underground. ...
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