Written with the full cooperation of John Cale and incorporating exclusive interviews with important figures from all phases of the musician's 40-year career, this new biography explores the man who has successfully transcended the boundaries between classical and popular music. Cale's music - from the Velvet Underground onwards - has been a series of passionate assaults on accepted musical forms, and his processes of deconstruction and reconstruction are illustrated by detailed accounts of his albums, live shows and relationships with other artists such as La Monte Young, Brian Eno and Lou Reed. Exhaustively researched, Sedition and Alchemy also contains the first full discography of John Cale's work to date.
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Great biography of my fave rock artist
7 mai 2004
Par Pieter Uys
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This informative biography of the innovative musician John Cale covers the period 1942 to 2001. It includes about 40 black and white photographs from early pics of Cale in a school play to the creative sixties and seventies with Cale together with the usual suspects like Nico and other musicians.
The text includes interesting descriptions of his solo albums and his contributions to Velvet Underground albums. These passages are often placed in historical context, for example the album Words For The Dying with its centrepiece The Falklands Suite and the time of its composition after the Falklands War.
There are also e-mail messages from Cale following the destruction of the Twin Towers. The main text ends with a performance by Cale, Brian Eno and Marianne Faithfull on 2 February 2002 at the Old Billingsgate Fish Market overlooking the Thames, in celebration of the opening of the Andy Warhol exhibition at the Tate Modern gallery in London.
The book contains extensive discographies of his solo albums, singles, albums with Cale as guest musician, Velvet Underground albums with John Cale, his own compilation albums, various compilation albums with exclusive John Cale tracks, videos/DVDs with soundtracks by Cale, official John Cale videos and finally, albums on which Cale was the producer/co-producer/arranger. This excellent work concludes with a thorough index. I also recommend John Cale's autobiography, titled What's Welsh for Zen.
The text includes interesting descriptions of his solo albums and his contributions to Velvet Underground albums. These passages are often placed in historical context, for example the album Words For The Dying with its centrepiece The Falklands Suite and the time of its composition after the Falklands War.
There are also e-mail messages from Cale following the destruction of the Twin Towers. The main text ends with a performance by Cale, Brian Eno and Marianne Faithfull on 2 February 2002 at the Old Billingsgate Fish Market overlooking the Thames, in celebration of the opening of the Andy Warhol exhibition at the Tate Modern gallery in London.
The book contains extensive discographies of his solo albums, singles, albums with Cale as guest musician, Velvet Underground albums with John Cale, his own compilation albums, various compilation albums with exclusive John Cale tracks, videos/DVDs with soundtracks by Cale, official John Cale videos and finally, albums on which Cale was the producer/co-producer/arranger. This excellent work concludes with a thorough index. I also recommend John Cale's autobiography, titled What's Welsh for Zen.
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What's Welsh for Zen is much much better
26 août 2006
Par pereubu
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Format:Broché
I found this book listy, chock full of all the names he's worked with. Little insight beyond his autobiography except for some anecdotes of his bizarre behaviour and how hard it was to work with Cale along with some other bits like that Lou Reed said he like the song "Hedda Gabber." I would avoid this book because of the price and also because if you like Cale you like depth and experimentation and learning something really new and it's lacking here. However, if you want a decent chronology of his life rendered in a rather listy form, this is the book for you.
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A 'must' reference for any Cale fan
5 septembre 2005
Par Midwest Book Review
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Format:Broché
The price tag seems hefty for a standard-looking paperback, but Tim Mitchell's Sedition And Alchemy: A Biography Of John Cale packs in exclusive interviews with key figures, was written with Cale's blessing, and holds a healthy set of black and white photos to compliment solid research and musical insights. Sedition And Alchemy also hold the first full published discography of John Cale's work, making it a 'must' reference for any Cale fan. And don't confuse John Cale with JJ Cale: they are two very different musical personalities.
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