Tony Conrad With Faust - Outside the Dream Syndicate

Outside the Dream Syndicate [30th Anniversary Edition]

Tony Conrad with Faust



1 From the Side of Man and Womankind 27:16

2 From the Side of the Machine 26:19

3 The Pyre of Angus Was in Kathmandu 3:38

4 The Death of the Composer Was in 1962 3:16

5 From the Side of Woman and Mankind (Complete Version) 31:09



Performed by Tony Conrad, Werner Diermaier, Jean Herve Peron, Rudolf Sosa.

Recorded at Wumme, West Germany, October 1972

Prodeuced by Uwe Nettelbeck

All Compositions by Tony Conrad



Recorded over a span of three days in 1973, Outside the Dream Syndicate was Tony Conrad's first official release; though also credited to the celebrated Krautrock band Faust, it's primarily a showcase for Conrad's minimalist drone explorations, an aesthetic fascinatingly at odds with the noisy, fragmented sound of his collaborators. Consisting of three epic tracks, each topping out in excess of 20 minutes, the album is hypnotically contemplative; the music shifts in subtle -almost subliminal- fashion, and the deeper one listens, the more rewarding it becomes. [The 30th Anniversary Edition includes two bonus tracks and comes packaged on two CDs.]

by Jason Ankeny / AMG