John Cale S/D

it pains me to do this, but i was just listening through a "new release" playlist, and i have 2 questions:

1) is "lazy day" a real song by john cale or is this mislabeled?
2) is this the worst song of the year

ok, the last 2 minutes is better and makes me think that yes, john cale is in there

yeah that's, um... that's... wow. That's very bad.

I ... liked it. I’d rather hear him doing that than mellowing out.

after hearing that im not sure he can get any more clinically mellow

"Lazy Day" is his best tune in years.

I like it, reminds me of 5 songs era a bit with extra idgaf old dude swag

i'm sorry, to be more specific: the part 29 seconds in, the first vocals "lazy day, lazy day", til about 40 seconds in.

that was what prompted me to post it. actually, not just that it happens, but that it repeats again at 57 seconds

i do think it generally goes get better after a couple minutes into the song. there was just something gobsmacking about that first minute, having not heard any recent music of his

generally *does

I think this is actually pretty great? most times I've dipped into c21st John Cale I've been fairly unmoved, but this is cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_PD9HllOMM

^^dir by Abby Portner who also dir'd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln77F25hXVQ

It sounds like Was (Not Was) covering "Blackstar"

"Artificial Intelligence" is fuckin' great. Just discovered it this week after avoiding for years due to a bad rep. Had I known his band on this were The Faction (Nico's band on 1985's "Camera Obscura" - another longtime fave of mine) I would've listened sooner. Icy and bitter with a nice, yet not overwhelming, cokey sheen.

Artificial Intelligence is certainly worth listening to, sort of the terminal stage of the "crazy man" phase of Cale's career. The sheen is sometimes better than the songs.

I'd have to properly judge a song like Lazy Day in the context of an album. The video is good but the song doesn't register on a casual listen.

We picked up Dracula in Memphis

You know more than I know

you know more than I know

https://www.closerweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/honeymooners-main.jpg

nice cover of a Vintage Violence tune here:
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2021/05/04/the-lagniappe-sessions-real-estate/

Some nice pictures here: https://www.schmitt-hall-studios.com/ron/JohnCale_03.19_21.79_Pix.htm

80 today!

Hope he can still afford to orgy

Came here to post, and just now re-read this whole thread--

Today, John Cale presents “Night Crawling,” his first new music since 2020 when he released the single, “Lazy Day,” and collaborated with Kelly Lee Owens on “Corner of My Sky.” “Night Crawling” is a taste of much more to come from Cale, and precedes his fall UK tour, which includes his first performances since pre-pandemic (more to come on the touring front in 2023, as well). Cale wrote “Night Crawling” with a nod to '70s NYC pre-disco, recalling times when he and David Bowie would traverse the city at night. Throughout the track, Cale layers his inimitable vocals with a skipping beat and hovering bass. As it expands, it becomes nearly danceable with jockeying percussion and whirs of synth. Cale played nearly every instrument on the track, aside from additional drums by Deantoni Parks and backing vocals by Dustin Boyer, and it was mixed by Seven Davis, Jr.. The accompanying video, animated by Mickey Miles, visualizes the song’s vibrant sounds with colorful, retro animation.

Cale further explains: “It’s been a helluva past 2 years and I’m glad to finally share a glimpse of what’s coming ahead. There was this period around mid-late '70s when David and I would run into each other in NY. There was plenty of talk about getting some work done but of course we’d end up running the streets, sometimes until we couldn’t keep a thought in our heads, let alone actually get a song together! One night we managed to meet up for a benefit concert where I taught him a viola part so we could perform together. When I wrote ‘Night Crawling,’ it was a reflective moment of particular times. That kind of NYC that held art in its grip, strong enough to keep it safe and dangerous enough to keep it interesting. I always figured we’d have another go at the two of us recording together, this time without the interference of being perpetually off our heads! The thing about creating music is the ability to divine a thought or feeling even when reality says it’s a logical impossibility.”

Watch John Cale’s Video for “Night Crawling”

John Cale Tour Dates
Sun. Oct. 23 - Edinburgh, UK @ The Queen’s Hall
Mon. Oct. 24 - York, UK @ Barbican
Fri. Oct. 28 - Cardiff, WLS @ Llais Festival *
Mon. Oct. 31 - Whitley Bay, UK @ Playhouse Whitley Bay
Thu. Nov. 3 - Birmingham, UK @ Birmingham Town Hall
Mon. Nov. 7 - Bexhill on Sea, UK @ De La Warr Pavilion
Wed. Nov. 9 - London, UK @ The London Palladium
Thu. Nov. 10 - Cambridge, UK @ Cambridge Corn Exchange
Fri. Nov. 11 - Liverpool, UK @ Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

* = John Cale + special guests, 80th Birthday Celebration

So grateful for John Cale's continuing presence

One night we managed to meet up for a benefit concert where I taught him a viola part so we could perform together.

i think i saw this! it was a benefit for columbia's wkcr at carnegie hall in 1979.
https://www.chisholm-poster.com/large/CL71352.jpg

what a time to have been alive

haha yeah but that thing was, like, 5 hours long. a little bit of minimalism goes a long way. totally cool to see bowie.

haha, I believe you

Cool to see Model Citizens on the bill, they'd have been fun I bet. They morphed into the Dance who were pretty good esp during the earlier stuff and are just now getting the reissue treatment from Sundazed of all people.

sad to say i don't even remember their set. either they got swallowed up by the hallowed hall and lost to memory or maybe i just missed it?

members of Model Citizens also went on to Polyrock with Glass playing on some of their records (and Cale produced the MC 7").

Yeah, their albums were also co-produced by Glass, with Kurt Muncasi: pretty good in that respect, also Glass's keys, but I don't remember the core group as having distinctive songs or performance styles. But maybe they'd sound better now, without any pesky Talking Heads etc. all over the place.

first heard them on RCA's Blitz comp (odd one with Bow Wow Wow, Sparks, etc.). like all 3 of their albums but haven't heard the ROIR cassette.

sorry to sidetrack from Cale. like the new track and very happy to see him back touring. last time I saw him (Desert Daze 2017) he was fantastic with a great young band. angry and bleak, opening with Hedda Gabler/The Endless Plain of Fortune/Rosegarden Funeral of Sores and then an especially dark and extended Heartbreak Hotel, before starting let some light in with Hanky Panky Nohow.

You know more than I know

No one listens to it
They don’t believe it
But it’s the only way for me

you know more than i know

that phrase should always command an exact response

Someone gave me a recording of Cale's Gluepot performance years ago, and it is so killer. Parts of the ChCh Show aired on Radio With Pictures, with Chris Knox doing his own wacko version of 'Streets of Laredo'. CC: @JokermenPodcast https://t.co/9ftxTOR1x5 https://t.co/f0CGh5LpFj

— Matthew Goody (@m_c_goody) August 24, 2022

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— Matthew Goody (@m_c_goody) July 8, 2022

Via revival of primeval primavera Go-Between thread, followed an ancient doomandgloom GoB link (which didn't work) to a Sabotage tour link which does work: nicely narsty show w relatively mellower bits---

https://64.media.tumblr.com/638a33b146b176fcac8dbf5ff859f850/3f3144fda7db6f1b-76/s1280x1920/d7d11278611e1b65a45f704b6aa7d40d1a9526fc.png

Scroll down this page, past live Silver Jews link (which I haven't checked yet):

https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/352964735/he-lives-my-life-the-go-betweens-in-the-2000s

Domino just announced a new album will be released in January:

MERCY

20TH JANUARY 2023

For nearly 60 years, John Cale has been reimagining how his music is made, sounds, and even works. MERCY, Cale’s first full album in a decade, moves through true dark-night-of-the-soul electronic torment toward vulnerable love songs and hopeful considerations for the future with the help of some of music’s most curious young minds. Cale has always searched for new ways to explore old ideas of alienation, hurt, and joy; MERCY is the latest transfixing find of this unsatisfied mind.

1. MERCY feat. Laurel Halo
2. MARILYN MONROE'S LEGS (beauty elsewhere) feat. Actress
3. NOISE OF YOU
4. STORY OF BLOOD feat. Weyes Blood
5. TIME STANDS STILL feat. Sylvan Esso
6. MOONSTRUCK (Nico's Song)
7. EVERLASTING DAYS feat. Animal Collective
8. NIGHT CRAWLING
9. NOT THE END OF THE WORLD
10. THE LEGAL STATUS OF ICE feat. Fat White Family
11. I KNOW YOU'RE HAPPY feat. Tei Shi
12. OUT YOUR WINDOW

Nookie Wood was pretty fascinating. Cale has a singular gift with lyrics that tell an authoritative and engrossing story from the first lines; you feel you're being "communicated to" even if the literal significance of the whole is obscure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgwOid8vdwE

still kicking myself that I didn't go see him when he toured for Nookie Wood (which I think is pretty good).

I tried to see him on the Black Acetate tour but tickets were sold out when I got to the venue.

into "story of blood"

really curious about that actress collab

Jan 11:

Today, John Cale unveils “NOISE OF YOU,” the new single/video off his first new album in a decade, MERCY, out January 20th on Double Six / Domino. “NOISE OF YOU” follows last year’s “shimmering” (Rolling Stone) single “NIGHT CRAWLING,” and “STORY OF BLOOD,” Cale’s “haunting” and “otherworldly” (The New York Times) collaboration with Weyes Blood. Sensual and svelte, “NOISE OF YOU” looks to be uplifted by our most ordinary but transcendent mechanism – love – as Cale croons about waiting to hear a paramour’s footfalls on the stairs during an idyllic winter. The accompanying video, directed by Pepi Ginsberg, features rare and never before seen images of Cale projected across spaces meaningful to his storied career.

Of the track, Cale says: “I don’t tend to romanticize the idea of love. It represents ‘need’ and that’s not something I’m particularly comfortable with. When it gets ahold of you though - don’t let go - no matter how many times you mess it up!”

Of the video, Ginsberg adds: “I was so inspired by John’s relationship to process and collaboration and wanted to mirror his approach to art in this video for ‘NOISE OF YOU,’ which John describes as a love song. Setting out to make a ‘moving’ portrait of John, we have mapped images and video of John’s life over his former home of New York City, creating a conversation between past and present, reflecting the way that distant, and sometimes dissonant, voices can reach across divides of space and time to speak their own language of love.”

In conjunction, Cale announces a UK/EU tour. Full dates are listed below and tickets are on sale now.

John Cale Tour Dates:
(Rescheduled Dates in Bold)
Mon. Feb. 6 - Liverpool, UK @ Philharmonic Hall
Wed. Feb. 8 - London, UK @ The Palladium
Fri. Feb. 10 - Bexhill-On-The-Sea, UK @ De La Warr Pavilion
Sat. Feb. 11 - Birmingham, UK @ Town Hall
Sun. Feb. 12 - Cambridge, UK @ Corn Exchange
Tue. Feb. 14 - Paris, FR @ Salle Pleyel
Thu. Feb. 16 - Karlsruhe, DE @ Tollhaus
Fri. Feb. 17 - Geneza, CH @ Festival Antigel
Sun. Feb. 19 - Frankfurt, DE @ Batschkapp
Mon. Feb. 20 - Dudelange, LU @ Centre Culturel Régional
Wed. Feb. 22 - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
Thu. Feb. 23 - Antwerp, BE @ De Roma
Sat. Feb. 25 - Hamburg, DE @ Kampnagel
Sun. Feb. 26 - Leipzig, DE @ Haus Auensee
Tue. Feb. 28 - Berlin, DE @ Verti Music Hall
Wed. Mar. 1 - Prague, CZ @ Archa Theatre
Thu. Mar. 2 - Vienna, AT @ Porgy & Bess
Sat. Mar. 4 - Wels, AT @ Stadttheater
Sun. Mar. 5 - Munich, DE @ Muffathalle