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Desertshore by Nico (Rock) (CD, Oct-1993, Warner Archives) 
Desertshore by Nico (Rock) (CD, Oct-1993, Warner Archives)

 
Desertshore by Nico (Rock) (CD, Oct-1993, Warner Archives)

Artist: Nico (Rock)
Release Date: Oct 1993
Format: CD
Record Label: Warner Archives
Genre: Alternative, Rock & Pop
UPC: 075992587020
Product ID: EPID3120530
Description: Personnel includes: Nico (vocals, harmonium); Adam Miller (background vocals). Don't be put off by the title of the first track, "Janitor Of Lunacy." It is not a horrorcore metal track, but rather a dense, Celtic-sounding dirge. Is this ...
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Track Listing
1. Janitor of Lunacy
2. Falconer, The
3. My Only Child
4. Le Petit Chevalier - (French)
5. Abschied - (German)
6. Afraid
7. Mutterlein - (German)
8. All That Is My Own

Details
Contributing Artists:John Cale
Producer:John Cale
Distributor:Alternative Dis. Alliance
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
Personnel includes: Nico (vocals, harmonium); Adam Miller (background vocals).
Don't be put off by the title of the first track, "Janitor Of Lunacy." It is not a horrorcore metal track, but rather a dense, Celtic-sounding dirge. Is this really the Nico you remember from the Velvet Underground?
Nico is the German-born model/actress who became part of the Warhol Crowd and a vocalist on the Velvets' first album. She soon left the band and ventured out on her own as an avant-garde soloist. DESERTSHORE, produced by John Cale, is highly atmospheric music making, with crashing percussion and droning harmonium. Nico's decisive vocals wail and wind through an ambient adventure of obscure self-penned songs. "Afraid," gracefully backed by acoustic piano is by far the most accessible.
There's a dry timbre to her vocals which is reminiscent of Marianne Faithfull, but DESERTSHORE is more performance-oriented, set in a more textured setting. Nico's influence might be more wide-ranging than one might think; it sounds like many contemporary female rockers have some of her solo records next to well-worn copies of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO in their collections. And while the sound of this 1970 album is an acquired taste, it is a sound that has become increasingly popular in contemporary recordings by new-folk, Celtic, and New Age artists.

Editorial Reviews
...[A] glacial classic....[with] arrangements that play like arthouse mini-movies....her voice glowers like a black fog suspended inside a tower of harmonium wails...
The Wire (06/01/2000)

...a work of genius....Its dominant mood is Gothic: guttering candles sputtering black wax on cold stone floors as the sound of Nico's harmonium drifts in from another room...
Rolling Stone (02/04/1971)

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