Avant-garde artist and committed anti-authoritarian Tony Conrad died last year, leaving behind him a swathe of largely overlooked audio and film recordings. His unwillingness to throw in his lot with Lou Reed and John Cale as they made the transition from The Primitives to The Velvet Underground, along with his infamous spat with control-freak La Monte Young over the release of early Theatre Of Eternal Music sides, have gone some way to undermine Conrad’s role in the history of experimental music. Let’s hope this release (along with the newly-issued documentary about his life and work, Tony Conrad: Completely In The Present) helps redress the balance, just as the critically-lauded Femenine did recently for Julius Eastman, another hitherto mistreated minimalist.