Thursday, May 8, 2008

Tony Conrad (feat. Andrew Deutsch) - Let's Trade Pants


Tony Conrad, amazing.

A very talented man, video and sound artist, classic avant-garde (60's, as avant-garde it's just temporal).
You can relate him to a lot of good old-school musicians that went evolving from orthodox compositions through vanguardism to the masterpieces they made, you can find Charlemagne Palestine, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Luc Ferrari, Morton Feldman and many more.

Let's Trade Pants is a very rare CD from 2003, which was reissued on vinyl later.
I don't have too much info about this album, but all I have to say about it is that it's a delicious drone piece with amplified string instruments, like a violin or cello. Pretty harsh in a certain way and acid, but delicious drone progression though. There's a small reference to Andrew Deutsch as the responsable for the "audience members reconstruction". He's also a video artist and sound artist from NY that teaches at Alfred University.

Tony Conrad (feat. Andrew Deutsch) - Let's Trade Pants

Artist: Tony Conrad & Andrew Deutsch
Album: Let's Trade Pants
Label: Elevator Bath
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 2004
Genre: Electronic
Style: Drone, Experimental, Minimal, Avant-garde.

Tracklisting:

A1 Let's Trade Pants (22:26)
Featuring - Pam Hawkins , Peer Bode , Peter Antin

B1 Let's Trade Pants (13:14)
Remix - Marc Schulz

B2 Let's Trade Pants (14:17)
Featuring [Koto, Toys], Bells [Rusty], Whistle, Flute - Ilya Monosov
Remix - Ilya Monosov

Enjoy.

Tony Conrad - Let's Trade Pants (Rapidshare Download)

Tony Conrad - Let's Trade Pants (Mediafire Download)

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Awesome! Big fan of Conrad, but somehow this one has escaped me until now. Thank you kindly.

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