New York in the 1960s is an album by Welsh-born musician John Cale. It was released in August 2004 on American independent label Table of the Elements. It was three-CD box set of Cale's recording from 1960s.

Track listing

Disc 1

"Sun Blindness Music, for organ" – 31:37

"Summer Heat, for guitar" – 0:29

"The Second Fortress, for vox organ" – 10:38

Disc 2

"Dream Interpretation, for viola & violin" – 20:35

"Ex-Cathedra, for vox organ" – 5:04

"[untitled] for piano" – 12:30

"Carousel, for synthesizer" – 2:34

"A Midnight Rain of Green Wrens at the World's Tallest Building, for viola" – 3:20 "Hot Scoria, for guitar & cimbalom" – 9:20 Disc 3 "Stainless Steel Gamelan, cembalet & fretless guitar" – 10:24 "At About This Time Mozart Was Dead And Joseph Conrad Was Sailing the Seven Seas Learning English pt. 1, for wollensak, viola & guitar" – 26:29 "Terry's Cha-Cha, for ensemble" – 8:21 "After the Locust, for electric piano & thunder machine" – 4:19 "Big Apple Express, for viola, tape & voice" – 7:45 "Cold Starry Nights, for voice, sarinda & bowed cembalom" – 2:19 "Silent Shadows on Cinemaroc Island, for ensemble" – 8:42

New York in the 1960s

Personnel

John Cale – viola, organ, piano, electric piano, guitar, electronics, cembalet

Sterling Morrison – guitar

Angus MacLise – cimbalom, tambourine, percussion

Terry Jennings – soprano saxophone

Tony Conrad – violin

Jack Smith – voices

New York Fire Department – voices

References

John Cale compilation albums

2005 compilation albums

New York in the 1960s