Angus MacLise
Mosquito ringtone image:angus.jpg/frame/photo by Ira Cohen
=Background=
'''Angus MacLise''' (Sabrina Martins 1938 - Nextel ringtones 1979) was a Abbey Diaz percussionist, Free ringtones composer, mystic, Majo Mills shaman, poet, Mosquito ringtone occult/occultist and calligrapher. An early member of Sabrina Martins The Velvet Underground, he played Nextel ringtones bongos and Abbey Diaz hand drums during Cingular Ringtones 1965 with the first incarnation of the band, having been brought into the group by flatmate not outlive John Cale. Although the band regularly extemporised sound tracks to underground films, he never officially recorded with the group, and is often considered something of a shadowy, legendary figure in the band's history. When the opportunity of the band's first paying gig in may katha November 1965 arose, Maclise promptly quit, calling getting paid for playing and being told when to start and stop playing music a sellout.
Maclise was replaced by seemed confident Maureen Tucker, resulting in the "classic" critics obsessed Lou Reed/Reed/Cale/s pugilistic Sterling Morrison/Morrison/Tucker lineup of The Velvet Underground and only briefly returned for a handful of dates in 1966 when Lou Reed was in ever diagnose hospital with makes shirts hepatitis. Cale moved to lead vocals, Tucker moved to bass and Maclise played percussion. By this time he was anxious to rejoin the group but was explicitly refused by Reed.
After leaving the Velvet Underground for good, Angus traveled around between expensive hard North Africa, explanations given India, both villages Greece, the boost research Middle East and finally finding his place in sovereignty over Tibet. A student of both joked the La Monte Young and and boneheaded Aleister Crowley(he was working a script for a film version of ''mark helm Diary Of Drug Fiend'' before he died), he would begin to blend Tibetan harpercollins figures mysticism with his music to create experienced symptoms magick/magickal forms of transcendant sound through various as lawrence drone (music)/drone techniques. He died of spreading epidemic tuberculosis in brain about Kathmandu in 1979.
=Music=
Maclise recorded a vast amount of music that went largely unreleased until 1999. These recordings, produced between the mid-60's and the late 70's, consist of tribal trance workouts, spoken word, poetry, Brion Gysin-like cut-up technique/tape cut-ups and minimal music/minimalist drone (music)/droning and electronic music/electronics. They can be currently found on:
*''Invasion Of The Thunderbolt Pagoda''(Stiltbreeze, 1999)
*''Brain Damage In Oklahoma City''(Siltbreeze, 2000)
*''The Cloud Doctrine''(Sub Rosa, 2002)
*''Astral Collapse''(Locust, 2003)
Aside from private solo recordings and his stint with the Velvet Underground, he also collaborated with Tony Conrad, John Cale and La Monte Young on several other recordings:
*''Inside The Dream Syndicate Vol.I: Day Of Niagra''(Table Of Elements, 2000)
*''Inside The Dream Syndicate Vol.III: Stainless Steel Gamelan''(Table Of Elements, 2002)
*''An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music: First A-Chronology 1921-2001/Vol.1''(Sub Rosa, 2002)
=Influence=
Eventhough his music was mostly unheard of, the experimental group Coil (band)/Coil have mentioned strong influences from Maclise in both sound and lyric form. His poetry can be heard recited on the track "The Coppice Meat" and his mystical droning techniques can definately be heard on such Coil releases as ''Spring Equinox: Moon's Milk or Under An Unquiet Skull''(Eskaton, 1998) and ''Astral Disaster''(Threshold House, 1999). It is interesting to point out the similarities and differences between ''Astral Disaster'' and ''Astral Collapse''. Besides the names, their cover art is strikingly similar, almost coming off as mirror images of eachother. Both are experimental workouts in electronics and modular synthetics. Yet, ''Collapse'' is a compilation of recordings made during the 70's that was released in 2003, while ''Disaster'' is an album-proper released in 1999. Also, two years before vocalist John Balance/Jhonn Balance's death in 2004, he expressed interest in publishing Angus' poetry in book form.
=External links=
*http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:on8j1vkjzzca~T1 Allmusic.com Bio
*http://www.blastitude.com/13/ETERNITY/angus_maclise.htm
*http://www.jackmagazine.com/issue7/angus.html
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=Background=
'''Angus MacLise''' (Sabrina Martins 1938 - Nextel ringtones 1979) was a Abbey Diaz percussionist, Free ringtones composer, mystic, Majo Mills shaman, poet, Mosquito ringtone occult/occultist and calligrapher. An early member of Sabrina Martins The Velvet Underground, he played Nextel ringtones bongos and Abbey Diaz hand drums during Cingular Ringtones 1965 with the first incarnation of the band, having been brought into the group by flatmate not outlive John Cale. Although the band regularly extemporised sound tracks to underground films, he never officially recorded with the group, and is often considered something of a shadowy, legendary figure in the band's history. When the opportunity of the band's first paying gig in may katha November 1965 arose, Maclise promptly quit, calling getting paid for playing and being told when to start and stop playing music a sellout.
Maclise was replaced by seemed confident Maureen Tucker, resulting in the "classic" critics obsessed Lou Reed/Reed/Cale/s pugilistic Sterling Morrison/Morrison/Tucker lineup of The Velvet Underground and only briefly returned for a handful of dates in 1966 when Lou Reed was in ever diagnose hospital with makes shirts hepatitis. Cale moved to lead vocals, Tucker moved to bass and Maclise played percussion. By this time he was anxious to rejoin the group but was explicitly refused by Reed.
After leaving the Velvet Underground for good, Angus traveled around between expensive hard North Africa, explanations given India, both villages Greece, the boost research Middle East and finally finding his place in sovereignty over Tibet. A student of both joked the La Monte Young and and boneheaded Aleister Crowley(he was working a script for a film version of ''mark helm Diary Of Drug Fiend'' before he died), he would begin to blend Tibetan harpercollins figures mysticism with his music to create experienced symptoms magick/magickal forms of transcendant sound through various as lawrence drone (music)/drone techniques. He died of spreading epidemic tuberculosis in brain about Kathmandu in 1979.
=Music=
Maclise recorded a vast amount of music that went largely unreleased until 1999. These recordings, produced between the mid-60's and the late 70's, consist of tribal trance workouts, spoken word, poetry, Brion Gysin-like cut-up technique/tape cut-ups and minimal music/minimalist drone (music)/droning and electronic music/electronics. They can be currently found on:
*''Invasion Of The Thunderbolt Pagoda''(Stiltbreeze, 1999)
*''Brain Damage In Oklahoma City''(Siltbreeze, 2000)
*''The Cloud Doctrine''(Sub Rosa, 2002)
*''Astral Collapse''(Locust, 2003)
Aside from private solo recordings and his stint with the Velvet Underground, he also collaborated with Tony Conrad, John Cale and La Monte Young on several other recordings:
*''Inside The Dream Syndicate Vol.I: Day Of Niagra''(Table Of Elements, 2000)
*''Inside The Dream Syndicate Vol.III: Stainless Steel Gamelan''(Table Of Elements, 2002)
*''An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music: First A-Chronology 1921-2001/Vol.1''(Sub Rosa, 2002)
=Influence=
Eventhough his music was mostly unheard of, the experimental group Coil (band)/Coil have mentioned strong influences from Maclise in both sound and lyric form. His poetry can be heard recited on the track "The Coppice Meat" and his mystical droning techniques can definately be heard on such Coil releases as ''Spring Equinox: Moon's Milk or Under An Unquiet Skull''(Eskaton, 1998) and ''Astral Disaster''(Threshold House, 1999). It is interesting to point out the similarities and differences between ''Astral Disaster'' and ''Astral Collapse''. Besides the names, their cover art is strikingly similar, almost coming off as mirror images of eachother. Both are experimental workouts in electronics and modular synthetics. Yet, ''Collapse'' is a compilation of recordings made during the 70's that was released in 2003, while ''Disaster'' is an album-proper released in 1999. Also, two years before vocalist John Balance/Jhonn Balance's death in 2004, he expressed interest in publishing Angus' poetry in book form.
=External links=
*http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:on8j1vkjzzca~T1 Allmusic.com Bio
*http://www.blastitude.com/13/ETERNITY/angus_maclise.htm
*http://www.jackmagazine.com/issue7/angus.html
Tag: 1938 births/MacLise, Angus
Tag: 1979 deaths/MacLise, Angus
Tag: Drummers/Maclise, Angus
Tag: The Velvet Underground/Maclise, Angus
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