Desertshore Lp Nico

Desertshore Lp Nico

This 1970 Reprise Records album finds Nico reunited with her Velvet Underground bandmate John Cale as producer, main instrumentalist and concord vocalist. Co-produced by Joe Boyd (legendary producer of Nick Drake, Sandy Denny and Incredible String Band), this LP holds 8 songs of deep haunting beauty featuring Nico’s dark voice and harmonium. It’s one of her very best solo albums (also applied as soundtrack for the 1971 Philippe Garrel experimental French film La Cicatrice Interieure). Contains exclusive liner notes by Dawson Prater and Dean Roberts. (180 gram HQ vinyl in gatefold sleeve)

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41 of 42 humans found the following review helpful.
A Life Changing Album
By Gregor von Kallahann
A local newspaper not long ago ran a poll (and published a follow-up article) on the albums that readers found had “changed their lives.” It didn’t even take place to me to submit an entry. I have a heap of albums that changed my life in galore sense, just as there have been a number of books and movies that I could likewise describe in such terms. But for the most part, I find that if they actually did change me, it in all probability has to do more with the cumulative effect of exposing myself to a assortment of musical (or literary, or cinematic) works over the course of my life.

21 of 25 humans found the following review helpful.
Everyone needs to listen this
By Beketaten
Among the travesties of standard culture that sicken me most, is the effortless, almost prompt dismissal of Nico’s musical brilliance. Her voice, her lyrics…anything to do with her so as to fail to confess to one’s self, the unfeigned curiosity she evokes.
This album blows away any cares I could have with regards to that, or so a great deal of other things, as her resonating emotions carry me away with her each phrasing. The sounds invoke the most eminent of superlatives with inexpressible passion kindled in my brain. Each song is a powerful testament to the ominous wonder that ebbs and flows allround this life we live in, with heavenly melodies that leave me aghast, and attain ageless prescience within my inquiring soul.
Think what you like of my glowing compliments, but the mideval, and worldly-lyrics-by-way-of-the-otherworldly-sounds, will never discontinue to amaze me. Nor will any other voice chill me to a glorious rapture as does hers.

This album is perfect.

10 of 11 humans found the following review helpful.
“You are beauteous and you are alone”…
By Michelle Donnelly
That lyric’s from my favored song on this album. That one line from “Afraid” fundamentally sums up most of Nico’s life – she was stunningly beautiful, yet she hated her good looks(and later ruined them with heroin and hard living) and could never find one person she could in truth call her soulmate(well, there was Jim Morrison, but he had passed away in 71). She was pretty and she was alone.

But anyway, this is one of her best albums. I personally think this is better than the album that was considered her masterpiece, “The Marble Index”(which is great, but have a tendancy to drag a little). Besides the song I just mentioned, there’s likewise the haunting “My Only Child”(not much instrumentation – Nico’s booming Wagnerian voice and the backing vocals, which almost sound like a choir, are the things that were put in the forefront of the song), the opening track “Janitor Of Lunacy”, “The Falconer”, and “All That Is My Own”. I would suggest to any individual who wants to start out acquiring Nico’s albums to unquestionably pick this one up.

One more note – Another reviewer said that “some French kid” is singing on “La Petit Chevalier”. This is actually Nico’s son Ari, who was raised by Alain Delon’s(Ari’s father) parents in France. Just wanted to clear that up.

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