Sun Blindness Music
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| Sun Blindness Music | ||||
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| Released | 2001 | |||
| Recorded | 1964–1966 | |||
| Genre | Drone, experimental rock, avant-garde, minimalist | |||
| Length | 64:24 | |||
| Label | Table of the Elements | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Pitchfork Media | (8.5/10) [2] |
New York in the 1960s: Sun Blindness Music, better known as Sun Blindness Music, is an album by John Cale released in 2001. It is the first of a loose anthology of experimental albums recorded during Cale's tenure with the Theatre of Eternal Music during the mid-1960s.
The pieces included on the album were recorded between 1964 and 1966. Albums following in the anthology include the collaborative effort Day of Niagara, and the Cale compilations Dream Interpretation and Stainless Gamelan. Each song in the trilogy is an exemplar of the burgeoning minimalist music genre, emphasizing atonality, drone, and noise.[citation needed]
Cale and frequent collaborators La Monte Young, Terry Riley, original Velvet Underground drummer Angus Maclise, Tony Conrad, and Marian Zazeela also contributed to the genres of avant-garde recording art and experimental rock. Cale and these artists themselves owed a debt to early 'anti-music' composer John Cage.[citation needed]
These albums were originally in the personal possession of Tony Conrad as part of his tape collection, and were thought lost until discovered and released by the independent record label Table of the Elements.
Australian band the Sun Blindness took their name from this album.
