The story of Tony Conrad starts back in early sixties when he joined the ensemble formed by saxophonist La Monte Young, his wife Marian Zazeela, Bill Name, Angus MacLise and John Cale (which joined them at the same time of Conrad's) forming the Dream Syndicate. The experience lasted until 1965 when they disbanded after performing improvisation sets where the notes where played four hours creating a drone effect with acustic instruments. Tony Conrad with his violin experimented and explored the harmonic deconstruction. Later he collaborated with Cale, Lou Reed and later on early seventies it happened to met Faust members. In 1972 they recorded "Outside the Dream Syndicate". Conrad and Faust members collaborated again but only on mid 90s for a live concert. On that time Table Of Elements was reprinting the "Outside the Dream Syndicate" album so in 1995 Conrad and Faust decided to performe it live at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. OUTSIDE THE DREAM SYNDICATE ALIVE is the recording of that performance and it sounds really violent if you think that is performed by people that was involved into the Kraut rock movement. The CD contains the fifty minutes performance plus the ten minutes encore. To try to explain to you how it sounds try to imagine a raped violin that plays dissonant chords creating a mesmerizing atmosphere. The pulsating drum and the bass guitar (which plays only one note) joins in about fifteen minutes later and starting from that point is a crescendo that last for other thirtyfive minutes. At the end bassist Jean-Herve Peron had his fingers bleeding. The ten minutes long "Encore" is similar to the first track but here the bass does some basic melodies, giving to the audience other throbbing moments.