Tony Conrad with Faust - Outside The Dream Syndicate CD Bert Jansch and the RAO Studio Orchestra

and the RAO Studio Orchestra version of "Ups & Downs" (which may be the group's finest pop moment)

was released on Rough Trade just prior to their pivotal third album

While Haino's extensive discography resists easy interpretation

From the introduction by Jon Savage: "For a brief period

yet remains a key document of the mid-'70s proto-punk zeitgeist

Tony Conrad with Faust - Outside The Dream Syndicate CD Bert Jansch and the RAO Studio OrchestraViolinist, composer and filmmaker Tony Conrad started his career in New York in the early 1960s. As a member of the Theatre of Eternal Music (a. k. a. the Dream Syndicate) alongside John Cale, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Angus MacLise, he participated in now legendary and often legendarily loud drone performances with many pieces having no beginning and no end. During a fateful trip to Germany in 1972, Conrad met with avant rock visionaries