Eat/Kiss: Music for the Films of Andy Warhol

The music is without a doubt more interesting than Warhol's films, which depicted, at great length and with no particular flair, Factory hipsters indulging in the activities indicted in their titles. Recorded live in Lille, France, with the Soldier String Quartet, guitarist B.J. Cole, Tucker, and vocalists Tiy( Giraurd and Jimmy Justice, Cale's moving film scores pay tribute not only to Warhol and Morrison, but to the Velvet's original chanteuse, Christa Paeffgen, better known as Nico.

Cale includes Nico's haunting song "Frozen Warnings" from The Marble Index as the second movement in the music to Kiss. Elsewhere, Cole's pedal steel echoes Morrison's noisier guitar workouts, and Tucker pounds away on the toms in her trademark style. Invoking "The Gift," Cale delivers a somber reading of Swedenborg's "Melanethon" in the middle of the music to Eat. In fact, just about the only Velvetsy touch that isn't expanded on is Cale's chaotic viola playing; sad to say, he stayed behind the keyboards throughout this performance. But given how prolific he has been of late, he's probably preparing another album where he rectifies that right now. --Jim Derogatis