John Cale

John Cale ( born March 9, 1942 in Garnant, Wales ) is a British art rock musician with classical training in viola and piano. He was a founding member in 1965 of the U.S. avant-garde band The Velvet Underground, but increased in 1968 and devoted himself to a successful solo career.

Life and work

Cale has studied music at the University of London at Goldsmiths College. In 1963 he was awarded with the known American composer Aaron Copland a Leonard Bernstein scholarship and studied at the Berkshire School of Music piano and viola. In New York he worked with John Cage and La Monte Young, before 1965, later protege of Andy Warhol band The Velvet Underground with Lou Reed founded.

In 1968 he left the band and since then occurs as a solo artist or with his own backing band. On Nick Drake album Bryter Layter (1970 ), he participated as guest musician. He also worked with, among others, Patti Smith ( as a producer ) and Brian Eno (ex -Roxy Music). He also produced Nico, which appeared as a singer on the first Velvet Underground album, and The Stooges (whose self-titled debut album from 1969, on which he also plays the viola ), Element of Crime and the Happy Mondays.

Cales first solo album Vintage Violence appeared in 1970 and shows Cale as important protagonists of Minimal Music. With long collagen, which developed only in slow motion, he prepared the groundwork for future rock experimentalists such as Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and David Byrne.

In 1972, Cale with the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Ron Wood and Legs Larry Smith ( Bonzo Dog Band ) The Academy In Peril on. Andy Warhol designed the cover and used the song Days Of Steam for the soundtrack of his film Heat.

In 1973, the neo- romantic opus Paris was published in 1919. According to the music magazine Rolling Stone It was a surrealistic work that " the whole of European high culture distorted by a Dadaist perspective." The magazine Music Express heard here, " sensual, mystical orchestral arrangements ". In the works played with musicians such as Lowell George and Richard Hayward of Little Feat.

An appearance in Alan Bangs music talk show Night Flight on the radio station BFBS in February 1984, and Cale's solo concert at the electric piano in the WDR -life recording series Rockpalast are legendary. Cales recordings were often good reviews, the great commercial success as a pop solo artist was never really intended by the avant-garde. Meanwhile, Cale adopted largely from the pop business and produced soundtracks, ballet music, The Rapture, the last studio album by Siouxsie and the Banshees. " Paris 1919 " was included in the list Wire The Wire 's " 100 Records That Set The World On Fire (While No One Was Listening ) ".

1990 John Cale took together with Lou Reed album Songs for Drella on, a tribute to the two years before the late Andy Warhol. These and other collaborations with former fellow musicians led in 1993 to a temporary reunion of the Velvet Underground.

At the Venice Biennale in 2009 Cale represented his native Wales. In November 2010, Cale was in Buckinghampalace an Officer of the British Empire ernannt.Der 70 -year-old is still very active as a composer of film music, for example, for French art house films. Besides, he is an accomplished amateur historian.

Discography

  • Vintage Violence ( 1970)
  • Church of Anthrax (1971, with Terry Riley )
  • The Academy In Peril (1972 )
  • Paris 1919 (1973)
  • June 1, 1974 (1974, with Kevin Ayers, Brian Eno, Nico )
  • Fear ( 1974)
  • Slow Dazzle (1975 )
  • Helen of Troy (1975 )
  • Guts (1977 ) - Compilation
  • Animal Justice (1977, EP)
  • Sabotage / Live (1979 )
  • Honi Soit (1981 )
  • Music for a New Society ( 1982)
  • Caribbean Sunset (1983 )
  • John Cale Comes Alive (1984 )
  • Artificial Intelligence ( 1985)
  • Words for the Dying (1989 )
  • Songs for Drella (1990, with Lou Reed )
  • Wrong Way Up (1990, with Brian Eno )
  • Even Cowgirls Get The Blues ( live) ( 1991)
  • Paris s'éveille, suivi d' autres Compositions ( 1991 film music)
  • Contribution to the tribute album to Leonard Cohen I'm your fan (1991 ) with a cover version of Hallelujah
  • Fragments of a Rainy Season ( live) ( 1992)
  • 23 Solo Pieces for La Naissance de L' Amour (1993 )
  • Last Day on Earth (1994, soundtrack with Bob Neuwirth )
  • N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir (1994 )
  • Seducing Down The Door (1994, compilation )
  • Antartida (1995, Soundtrack)
  • I Shot Andy Warhol (1996, Soundtrack)
  • Basquiat (1996, Soundtrack)
  • Walking on Locusts (1996 )
  • Eat / Kiss: Music for the Films of Andy Warhol (1997)
  • Somewhere In The City (1998, Soundtrack)
  • Le vent de la nuit (1999, Soundtrack)
  • The Unknown (1999)
  • Close Watch: An Introduction to John Cale (1999, compilation )
  • American Psycho (2000, Soundtrack)
  • Saint- Cyr (2000, Soundtrack)
  • Sun Blindness Music ( 2001)
  • Stainless Gamelan (2001)
  • Dream Interpretation (2001)
  • 5 Tracks (2003, EP)
  • Hobosapiens (2003)
  • Black Acetate (2005)
  • Process (Soundtrack ) (2005 )
  • Paris 1919 ( Expanded & Remastered, 12 Bonus Tracks ) (2006 )
  • Live Circus (2007, double CD)
  • Extra Playful (2011, EP)
  • Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood ( 2012)
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