Angus MacLise (1938 - 1979) was a percussionist, composer, mystic, shaman, poet, occultist and calligrapher. He is probabaly better known when a number one drummer for the Velvet Underground, but experienced an intriguing career outside of that class action.

Biography
MacLise was as an early member of The Velvet Underground, having been brought into a class action by flatmate John Cale. MacLise played bongos and hand drums during 1965 with the foremost incarnation of the band. Although the b& regularly extemporised healthy tracks to underground films, MacLise never officially recorded by using a class action, and is typically considered something of a shadowy, legendary figure in the band's history. Whenever a chance of the band's foremost paying gig inside November 1965 arose, Maclise promptly quit, suggesting the class action experienced sold out.

Maclise was replaced by Maureen Tucker, resulting in the "classic" lineup of The Velvet Underground. Within 1966 whenever Velvet Undergroud singer Lou Reed was in hospital with hepatitis, MacLise rejoined the class action for two or three performances. By this instance a Velvet Underground got discovered a bit of noteriety (whenever non groovy fiscal profits) & MacLise was anxious to rejoin a class action, however this was explicitly refused by Reed.

Fallowing allowing a Velvet Underground permanently, Angus traveled around between North Africa, India, Greece, the Middle East and finally selecting his place around Tibet. The student of two La Monte Young and Aleister Crowley(he was working the script for a film version of Crowley's Diary Of A Drug Fiend before he died), he would begin to blend Tibetan mysticism with his music to create magickal forms of transcendent sound across various drone techniques. He died of tuberculosis in Kathmandu in 1979.

Music

Maclise recorded the immense total of music that went largely unreleased until 1999. These recordings, produced between a mid-60's & a late Lxx's, consist of tribal trance physical exertion, spoken word, poetry, Brion Gysin-like tape cut-ups and minimalist droning and electronics. It may be presently encountered in:

Invasion Of The Thunderbolt Pagoda(Stiltbreeze, 1999) BraWithin Damage In Oklahoma City(Siltbreeze, 2000) A Cloud Philosophy(Sub Genus rosa, 2002) Stellar Collapse(Locust, 2003)

Aside from either personal solo recordings & his stint sustaining a Velvet Underground, he too collaborated by using Tony Conrad, John Cale and La Monte Young on several other recordings:

Within A Dream Syndicate Vol.We: Day Of Niagara(Table Of Elements, 2000) Within A Dream Syndicate Vol.Tercet: Stainless Steel Gamelan(Table Of Elements, 2002) An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music: First A-Chronology 1921-2001/Vol.1(Sub Rosa, 2002)

Influence

Possibly though his music was mostly unheard, a experimental class action Coil have mentioned strong influences from either Maclise around two healthy & lyric form. His poetry may be heard recited on the track "The Coppice Meat" & his secret abuzz techniques influenced such Coil releases when ''Spring Equinox: Moon's Milk or even Under An Unquiet Skull (Eskaton, 1998) & Astral Disaster (Threshold Home, 1999). These are interesting to point retired a similarities & differences between Astral Disaster & Astral Collapse. Besides a list, their handle art is strikingly similar, virtually coming off when reflexion of both more. Each come experimental physical exertion inside electronics & modular synthetic substance. However, Collapse'' occurs as compilation of recordings processed in a period of the Lxx's that was freed around 2003, when Disaster is an album-proper freed within 1999. Likewise, 2 years prior to vocalizer Jhonn Balance's death inside 2004, he expressed interest within publishing Angus' poetry around book form.