** condition: NM/EX+ ** Original first edition with poster of historical recording by Tony Conrad from 1964.
"Beautifully packaged in a gatefold jacket with metallic inks and pressed on superior-grade 180g vinyl, the rare first edition with poster of Tony Conrad's 1964 minimalist classic, created during his involvement with the Dream Syndicate (with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and John Cale): on December 19, 1964 he recorded Four Violins, his only 1960s solo tape of violin playing. "The most striking quality of Four Violins is its instant familiarity: the grating sound of the violin parts imparts a vision of a uniquely American distance, the feel of a continent. It's a quality also present in the spaces surrounding John Fahey's or Loren Mazzacane's rattled notes, the early Sun recordings, the compositions of Charles Ives, the righteous soul-breath of Albert Ayler. With Four Violins Conrad moves closer to sound-essence, to ringing out the notes which have always existed in the skies of America."