Lou Reed & John Cale - Songs For DrellaRecord Store Day October 30TH Anniversary edition of Lou Reeds album recorded with John Cale (Both formerly co founders of The Velvet Underground) the concept album is a tribute to their friend and mentor Andy Warhol who had died a couple of years earlier here they [Reed & Cale] paint a portrait of Warhol that has far more depth and poignancy than his public image would have led one to expect. It's a moving and deeply felt tribute to a misunderstood

The fragile yet defiant ‰ÛÏI Decline‰۝ opens the album

this definitive reissue is restored from original masters with vivid reproductions of the Down On The Road By The Beach exhibition catalogue

joyous pulse

which can‰۪t be bad

the Desert Island weather beaten psych-flow follow up to Out To Sea)

Ballad of the Dying Man

and dancin‰۪

Remastered from the original tapes by renowned producer and engineer Seigen Ono

hallowed rewards

The artwork of the whole compilation combines the aesthetics of the 70s and 80s with respect to picturesque Ottoman tradition

Taken from the acclaimed 1981 album Black Ark In Dub

and in the mid 1970s was running his fathers studio in Memphis