TONY CONRAD w FAUST outside the dream syndicate LP 1973 avant experimental drone

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Tony Conrad with Faust "Outside the Dream Syyndicate" LP issued by Caroline (C 1501) in the UK, 1973. ****** Rec:vg / Cov:vg- ****** First LP by film-maker and experimental artist/composer Tony Conrad. "Outside the Dream Syndicate" is a 1973 collaboration album by Tony Conrad and German krautrock group Faust. The album marks Conrad's first and only musical release for many years, and remains his best known musical work. It is considered a classic of minimalism and drone music. The original LP contained two 26-minute pieces. In the mid-1960s Tony Conrad was a member of The Dream Syndicate, an american experimental music group. In New York Conrad was approached by a filmmaker from Hamburg in Germany who said that he knew a producer in Hamburg who would be interested in Conrad's music. Conrad flew to Hamburg where he met Uwe Nettelbeck, Faust's producer. Nettelbeck took Conrad to an old schoolhouse where Faust had been recording, and invited him to make a record with the band, "outside" Conrad's group, the Dream Syndicate (and hence the title of the album). Made over three days on a remote farm in northern Germany, "Outside the dream syndicate" was the composer and violinist's debut album and a revelatory document of his central role in the birth of minimalism. Issued only in Europe, it was the first officially available record of Conrad's microtonal explorations, initiated in the dream syndicate in the early 1960s. Though also credited to the celebrated Kraut rock 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. The album is hypnotically contemplative; the music shifts in subtle, almost subliminal, fashion, and the deeper one listens, the more rewarding it becomes. This LP represents the vital link between early minimalism and the rock avant-garde and a gripping testament to the power and beauty of the drone. It grooves! ****** Some sleeve wear with pen marks around the letters on front and some ring wear on back (see photos). Seams and spine in solid conditions. ****** Record has hairlines and superficial scratches. Plays with some surface noise that anyway is not overpowering the music. ****** Please wait to receive my invoice before sending the payment after the auction ends. Attention! Real postage costs are not USD 4 as all the items are located in Doha, Qatar (which has a very safe and professional post system). Postage costs registered up to 1 Kilo (generally 3 LPs): to Europe and Japan is USD 16,50 / to America and Oceania is USD 22,50. Postage costs registered up to 2 Kilos:  to Europe and Japan is USD 28,00 / to America and Oceania is USD 34,00. ****** More ebay auctions of ultra rare sonic arts, fluxus, sound poetry LP and K7 editions in the coming weeks. ****** Thank you for your kind attention and good luck with your bids.