Amoeba Music

“Tony Conrad is a pioneer, as seminal in his way to American music as Johnny Cash or Captain Beefheart or Ornette Coleman, one of those really savvy old guys whom all the kids want to emulate because their ideas, their style, are electric and new and somehow indivisible.”

            — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1998

Those words are even truer and more relevant a decade later. Tony Conrad is a giant in the American soundscape. Since the early 1960s, he has utilized intense amplification, long duration, and precise pitch to forge an aggressively mesmerizing "Dream Music." Conrad articulated the Big Bang of... Read More

City Of Origin:

Concord, New Hampshire, United States

Genre:

Experimental, Minimalism

Birthdate:

04/12/1940