Throughout the 1960s, pop artist Andy Warhol made several artsy (some might say pretentious) silent films of things just happening. Empire was virtually still photography on video, showing only the Empire State Building for like 12 hours until the sun went down. Blow Job showed a guy getting fellated. Sleep showed a guy sleeping for several hours. Yeah, those film titles were pretty self-descriptive. A couple of other films Warhol made were Eat and Kiss.

In 1994, three out of four members of the Velvet Underground (Lou Reed wasn't invited) and six other musicians played some of these Cale-penned selections at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. This album was recorded in Lille, France in 1995, sans Sterling Morrison, who died on August 30 of that year.

Incorporating string sections, keyboard drones and some incredible vocalists, Cale has created some beautiful structures of sound and impressive orchestration. Eat/Kiss is a dark, solemn piece that perfectly encapsulates the sadness that washed over the city of New York with Warhol's death in 1987. Whether or not this record's purpose is ultimately to mourn Warhol's passing (or Sterling's, for that matter), it does so with sparkling results.

-Ryan Schreiber, July, 1997