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data-attribute-verso-pattern="article-body" class="ArticlePageContentBackGround-cNiFNN kJkLmH article-body__ntent"><div class="ArticlePageChunksContent-etcMtP bwyLBj"><div data-ttid="ArticlePageChunks" class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eOdfIs"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>“You hear one send of Tony’s mic and you know ’s him,” <a href=">Jim O’Rourke</a> says a new documentary about <a href=">Tony Conrad</a>, the experimental poser, multi-media pneer, and art-world gadfly, who <a href=">died</a> last April. It is ironic, then, that his bowed dron only exert their full power across long stretch of time. It is a mic of extreme duratn—an endurance tt, even, but one whose payoff is a kd of nirvana.</p><p>It is partly thanks to O’Rourke that I know this at all. In the mid 1990s, when Conrad remaed an obscure figure even to many experimental mic fans, O’Rourke and <a href=">David Gbbs</a>, then playg as Gastr l Sol, went out on tour wh the mimalist pneer several s their senr. I was the crowd when they played at the Met Café Province, Rho Island, and I am not embarrassed to adm that for a good stretch of Conrad’s performance, I did not get at all.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>Standg behd a semi-transparent scrim, silhouetted by a floor-level light behd him, he shoulred his vl and began bowg a staed tone, acpanied by a cellist seated the background. The not went neher up nor down. Jt: <em>eeeeeeeeeeeee</em>. It was as though somethg had gotten stuck, like a glch the matrix had left beached on this long, narrow sliver of time. I was my mid 20s; I hadn’t been exposed to much experimental mic. It seemed nonsensil; seemed excsive.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>Standg there that half-empty rock club, listeng to a sgle note drawn out to a horizon I uldn’t perceive, I got to thkg: <em>Surely there mt be a reason he’s dog this</em>. He uld have stopped whenever he wanted, and didn't—that had to mean <em>somethg</em>. I found myself relaxg to the monotony, baskg the spray of harmonics that three or four held strgs uld throw off. I didn’t know at the time, but Conrad had jt troduced me to one of John Cage’s maxims: “If somethg is borg after two mut, try for four. If still borg, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one disvers that is not borg at all.”</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="0kf2h6"></div></div><p>Conrad helped troduce the ia of extreme duratn to experimental mic, and directly to rock‘n’roll. In the 1960s, he played alongsi <a href=">La Monte Young</a>, <a href=">Marian Zazeela</a>,<a href="> John Cale</a>, and others the Theatre of Eternal Mic, a ragged outf that ed mimalist psychelia as a kd of crowbar to crack open the wdow to a higher plane of nscns. He also played wh Cale and <a href=">Lou Reed</a> a short-lived group lled the Primiv, and 's even said that Reed and Cale borrowed their <a href=">Velvet Unrground</a> moniker om the tle of a book they found Conrad’s apartment. “You don’t know who I am, but somehow, directly, you’ve been affected by thgs I did,” Conrad told <a href="><em>The Guardian</em></a> last year, discsg his role as an unlikely lchp of the past five s of alternative mic. “I don’t md beg anonymo, though. I hate celebry. When you walk down the street and people want to know this and that, ’s horrible.”</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="d1xtr"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="ubw7p5"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>Lately, Conrad is beg regnized, and redisvered, for his work beyond the drone. A spate of projects is helpg troduce new generatns of listeners to his md-openg art and playful persona. Below, we n down the new documentary on him, a recent onle archive of 200 hours’ worth of his piano improvisatns, and select classics om his talog that make for apt startg plac.</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Tony Conrad Glass Accsori Accsory Clothg Apparel Human Person Hat and Face" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE wZGox ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI dDrfgT asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd kHsNUl fNaHcW ptn__cred">LEX VAN ROSSEN</span></div></figure><p><em>Photo by Lex van Rossen/MAI/Redferns</em></p><hr/><h2><em>Tony Conrad: Completely the Prent</em></h2><p>Director Tyler Hubby spent more than 20 years filmg Conrad, which giv <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>Tony Conrad: Completely the Prent</em></a> a long-view spe that seems particularly ftg of s subject. Conrad died shortly before Hubby fished the documentary, but stead of a logy, across as a tribute to his boundls life force. It's loosely stctured around key facets of Conrad’s work: his time the Theatre of Eternal Mic; his groundbreakg stcturalist cema; and his profsorship at SUNY Buffalo, cludg his ble-accs ll- TV show signed to help stunts wh their homework.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>If there's a nng theme, is Conrad’s s-long stggle wh <a href=">La Monte Young</a> over the Theatre of Eternal Mic’s tape archiv. Young keeps the tap unr lock and key, adamant that they are his own pyright posns, but Conrad nsirs them exprsns of spontaneo, llective creatn. That nflict go to the heart of Hubby's portra of Conrad as an ialist and radil thker years beyond our own narcissistic tim.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="ivt70j"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="RecircMostPopularWrapper-bRuGTi jkTTgR recirc-most-popular-wrapper viewport-monor-anchor"><div class="RecircMostPopularConter-jiViNn ktrplG recirc-most-popular-sparrow-trackg hi-asi-ad" data-most-popular-id="mod-most-popular-747"><div 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class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>Var iends and llaborators offer sight and bgraphil lor, cludg Jim O’Rourke, David Gbbs, fellow drone mician <a href=">Charlemagne Palte</a>, and, particularly, Jeff Hunt, whose Table of the Elements label was stmental retroducg Conrad’s mic to a new generatn of listeners the ‘90s. But the real pleasure is to be had Conrad’s own pany. He's a wonrful character—funny, self-pretg, genero, cheerfully acerbic, and clearly the smartt guy any room. As the film ends, we watch him standg the middle of a by Manhattan street, “nductg” traffic and pturg the sounds on tape. Conrad may have dreamed of abolishg the poser, but <em>Completely the Prent</em> suggts that we would hab a much quieter, ls joyful world were not for his example.</p><figure data-ttid="IameEmbed" class="IameEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZiq iame-embed"><div data-ttid="IameEmbedContaer" class="IameEmbedContaer-hptgUZ kHuUWr"><div class="IameEmbedAspectRatWrapper-hFVJps BKpgQ"><iame class="IameEmbedContent-cMdiev csnuAY IameEmbedContent lazyload" height="338" width="600" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-orig" tle="Embedd Frame" data-src=" allow="toplay *; encrypted-media *; clipboard-wre; toplay; fullscreen; picture--picture"></iame></div></div></figure><p><em>Until May 8, viewers the U.S. and the UK n screen the documentary for ee on <em><a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>MUBI</em></a></em>; registratn wh cred rd or PayPal required.</em></p><hr/><h2>Mic and the Md of the World</h2><p>An extreme example of Conrad's obssn wh duratn, <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>Mic and the Md of the World</em></a> is a staggerg work of long-form visn, wh 200-odd hours of piano improvisatns tend to be regard as a sgle posn. Rerd onto more than 200 ssette tap between 1976 and 1982, the llectn has been digized and archived onle by the artist Cory Arngel and his team at Arngel Surfware, who llaborated wh Conrad on the project before his ath.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="2qr9sc"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="RecircMostPopularWrapper-bRuGTi jkTTgR recirc-most-popular-wrapper viewport-monor-anchor"><div class="RecircMostPopularConter-jiViNn ktrplG 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class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent summary-em__ntent--no-bric"><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM dQteGc summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ dupIXR summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Travis Stt Releas New Album <em>Utopia</em></div></div></div></a><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY jCKKIz summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH CViXj byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd gebkj gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Evan Msker</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></li><li><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ RecircMostPopularSummaryItem-jQxxiw iOZoWR ad ad--asi"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--asi" data-no-id="dsmk"></div></div></li></ul><div class="RecircMostPopularFooter-enPjgs gCLhcL"></div></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="t1ajb"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bCHUuY body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>Conrad didn’t teach himself to play the piano until adulthood, and he approached the stment typilly idsyncratic fashn: as a bridge between Wtern tradn and philosophil vtigatn. Operatg unr the fluence of John Cage, he learned to fd pleasure randomns, difficulty, and sounds that he actively disliked—such as the pop songs and dance rhythms favored by his iend Jack Smh, the experimental filmmaker, whose preferenc Conrad found “distastefully mon.” Conrad's improvisatns functned as an unlikely way to shoehorn nventnal melodicism to difficult shap, and vice versa. As Conrad explas an troductn to the project, “There are lengthy moments among the rerdgs that for me are a simple joy to hear. The keep me tethered close to the piece, but the more awkward and unlistenable segments are by far the most tertg.”</p><p>The method behd <em>Mic and the Sound of the World</em> is fairly straightforward: For six years, every time he touched a piano, Conrad rerd . What emerg are mative tone poems, haltg chromatic exploratns, tumbledown blu, and moments of profound phony remblg a moth-eaten player piano roll—all veiled the hiss and buzz of distegratg tap. Listeng to the rerdgs n be as msy as eavdroppg on someone’s thoughts—and as revealg, too. The <a href=">first selectn</a> is among the most nventnally betiful of the whole seri: Conrad lets his right hand wanr dreay slow, meanrg circl, but his left remas reassurgly anchored on the root note; there are no real moments of disrd. It is sentially a risg and fallg mil reverie—a low-key fantasia that floats a few feet the air, bumpg lightly agast the ground like a slowly flatg balloon.</p><p>Readg Conrad’s text, however, we learn that he rerd this piece on the same afternoon that his mother died (Christmas Day, 1976). What we hear, then, is not only the theoretician workg out a plex thought procs about the Wtern tradn and Flux-spired art practice. It is a remarkable snapshot of emotn—grief, love, and more namels sentiments—rerd real time.</p><hr/><h2>Tony Conrad wh Fst — <strong><em>Outsi the Dream Syndite</em></strong> <strong>(1973/1993)</strong></h2><p>Rerd 1973 and largely fotten s day, <em>Outsi the Dream Syndite</em> fds Conrad hookg up wh Hamburg’s legendarily cendiary experimental rockers for a set of medative studi pulse and drone. <a href=">Fst</a> kick off “The Si of Man and Womankd” wh a dirge-like bass-and-dms stomp, but quickly be clear that ’s their Amerin lleague who is charge. Conrad’s see-sawg equenci quickly swell to fill the ame, his microtonal harmoni throwg off sparks that settle to a steady glow. “The Si of the Mache” picks up the pace and ratchets up the feedback several notch. Both tracks sound like unfivg tak on the Velvet Unrground’s “Ven Furs”—tast of the whip so severe, they leav welts on the tongue. Re-released on Table of the Elements 1993, this is the rerd that troduced a new generatn to Conrad, settg motn a broad rethkg of the mimalist non. A bon track, released on the 30th anniversary edn 2002, is appropriately tled, “The Death of the Composer Was 1962.”</p><figure data-ttid="IameEmbed" class="IameEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZiq iame-embed"><div data-ttid="IameEmbedContaer" class="IameEmbedContaer-hptgUZ kHuUWr"><div class="IameEmbedAspectRatWrapper-hFVJps BKpgQ"><iame class="IameEmbedContent-cMdiev csnuAY IameEmbedContent lazyload" height="166" width="100%" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-orig" tle="Embedd Frame" data-src=" allow="toplay *; encrypted-media *; clipboard-wre; toplay; fullscreen; picture--picture"></iame></div></div></figure><hr/><h2>Tony Conrad — <strong><em>Slappg Pythagoras</em></strong> <strong>(1995)</strong></h2><p>Tony Conrad bshed up agast the popular mic dtry while playg for screamg teenagers Lou Reed's band the Primiv, and he did so once aga, even more glancgly, wh his 1995 album *Slappg Pythagoras. *The album featured none other than Steve Albi the engeer’s chair, but *Slappg Pythagoras *was no *Nevermd. *Wh abstse ler not savagg the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras for his ventn of Wtern tung systems, the album gave self phorilly over to Conrad’s preferred microtonal rt. The lp is a who’s-who of the Chigo experimental scene, wh Thymme Jon, Kev Dmm, David Gbbs, and Jim O’Rourke—the latter on guar, acrdn, and weed trimmer—all attendance. It is a bowg, scrapg d of formidable tensy.</p><figure data-ttid="IameEmbed" class="IameEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZiq iame-embed"><div data-ttid="IameEmbedContaer" class="IameEmbedContaer-hptgUZ kHuUWr"><div class="IameEmbedAspectRatWrapper-hFVJps BKpgQ"><iame class="IameEmbedContent-cMdiev csnuAY IameEmbedContent lazyload" height="166" width="100%" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-orig" tle="Embedd Frame" data-src=" allow="toplay *; encrypted-media *; clipboard-wre; toplay; fullscreen; picture--picture"></iame></div></div></figure><hr/><h2>Tony Conrad – <strong><em>Four Vls (1964)</em></strong> <strong>(1996)</strong></h2><p>Wantg to share his llective's mic wh his girliend but unable to wrt the tap om La Monte Young's hands, Conrad did the next bt thg: He overdubbed four solo vl parts to ssette. The tape would languish obscury until the mid ’90s, when turned up unannounced, a bubble-wrap envelope, Jeff Hunt’s mailbox Atlanta. In 1996, Hunt released the piece—as monumental as is md-bogglgly simple—on his Table of the Elements label. Shorn of the rhythmic unrpngs of Conrad's Fst llaboratn, is a breathtakg example of pure drone mic, and sounds by turns like a sleepg dragon and a power saw.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="bcm91r"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="RecircMostPopularWrapper-bRuGTi jkTTgR recirc-most-popular-wrapper viewport-monor-anchor"><div class="RecircMostPopularConter-jiViNn ktrplG recirc-most-popular-sparrow-trackg hi-asi-ad" 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target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz jTnDXj"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Watch Blur’s Vio for New Song “St. Charl Square”" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX irmJOI bric SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">News</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM kHqDAk summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-5" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ lfbrty summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Watch Blur’s Vio for New Song “St. Charl Square”</div></div></div></a><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY jCKKIz summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH CViXj byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd gebkj gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Jazz 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