Day of Niagara

Contributors include future Velvet Underground members John Cale and Angus Maclise, composers La Monte Young and Tony Conrad, and artist Marian Zazeela.

[1][2] The original master tape of the recording was illicitly copied several decades before it found its way to Table of the Elements for release by composer and visual artist Arnold Dreyblatt, who had been employed as Young's archivist assistant.

Miller of The New York Times described the album as "a loud score that sounds not unlike an airplane engine and predated the noise rock of [Lou] Reed's 'Metal Machine Music' and other staples of early punk by about a decade.

It is difficult, should fill space, bounce off walls, clear rooms, and mess with your head.

"[9] Writing for The Village Voice, Alec Hanley Bemis stated that the music is "intense but also closed, fundamentally ungenerous.