Outside the Dream Syndicate

Outside the Dream Syndicate
Studio album by Tony Conrad and Faust
Released 1973
Recorded Wümme, Germany
October 1972
Genre Experimental, minimalist, drone
Length 53:36
Label Caroline
Producer Uwe Nettelbeck
Faust chronology

The Faust Tapes
(1973)		 Outside the Dream Syndicate
(1973)		 Faust IV
(1973)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Pitchfork (9.0/10)[2]

Outside the Dream Syndicate is a 1973 collaboration album by United States avant-garde filmmaker 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 minimalist and drone music. Pitchfork Media exclaims "for a moment in Outside the Dream Syndicate, one forgets what exactly is moving and what is standing still."[2]

The original LP contained two 26-minute pieces. The album was digitally remastered in 1993 and released on CD by Table of the Elements with an additional 20-minute previously unreleased bonus track.

Background

In the mid-1960s Tony Conrad was a member of The Dream Syndicate, a United States experimental and drone music group.

In New York City 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).

In 1995, Conrad and Faust reunited to play a 50-minute live version of the piece "From the Side of Man and Womankind"; the concert was eventually released in 2005 as the album Outside the Dream Syndicate Alive.

Track listings

1973 LP release

Side A
  1. "From the Side of Man and Womankind" (Conrad) – 27:16
Side B
  1. "From the Side of the Machine" (Conrad) – 26:20

1993 CD release

  1. "From the Side of Man and Womankind" (Conrad) – 27:16
  2. "From the Side of the Machine" (Conrad) – 26:20
  3. "From the Side of Woman and Mankind (Conrad) – 20:04

2002 30th Anniversary edition (2 CD)

CD 1
  1. "From the Side of Man and Womankind" (Conrad) – 27:16
  2. "From the Side of the Machine" (Conrad) – 26:20
CD 2
  1. "The Pyre of Angus Was in Kathmandu" (Conrad) – 03:38
  2. "The Death of the Composer Was in 1962" (Conrad) – 03:16
  3. "From the Side of Woman and Mankind (complete version)" (Conrad) – 31:09

Personnel

Sound

References

  1. ↑ Ankeny, Jason. "Outside the Dream Syndicate (With Faust)". Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-06-22.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Leone, Dominique (2007-10-03). "Outside the Dream Syndicate". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2012-01-02.

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