Angus MacLise, Brain Damage in Oklahoma City - 1h 9m 54s

Tracks & Durations

1. Another Druid's Nest	0:41
2. Haight Riot Mime	3:40
3. Epiphany	9:04
4. Loft Collage	2:26
5. Drum Solo	6:25
6. Dreamweapon Benefit for the Oklahoma City Police Dept. pt. 1	30:35
7. Dreamweapon Benefit... pt. 2	13:09
8. Cembalum	3:48

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Review

The second archival release by founding Velvet Underground percussionist Angus MacLise, who died in 1979, is even more powerful than 1999's excellent Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda. Where the former record had its share of psychedelic whimsy, Brain Damage in Oklahoma City exudes an implacable determination to deliver both the performers and their audience into an ecstatic state. MacLise's three solo performances on hand drums and cembalum (a variety of hammered dulcimer), with their driving rhythms and needle-in-the-red recording quality, are bracingly mind-clearing. "Epiphany," a duet with his organ-playing wife Hetty, radiates ritual splendor as it builds toward a swelling climax. But most affecting are the two works titled "Dreamweapon Benefit for the Oklahoma City Police," which took place to defray costs incurred when the MacLises were busted by Oklahoma City's finest. On "Dreamweapon," Angus and Tony Conrad, playing a homemade "limp string" that sounds like an electrified sitar, engage in exhilarating duels over a backdrop of droning voices, flutes, and tanpura. They sustain a ferociously intense level of interplay over 43 gloriously transcendental minutes. --Bill Meyer

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