We\u2019ve Got The Gold \/ The End \/ Das Lied Der Deutschen<\/a><\/p>\nNico\u2019s uncompromising and absolutely vital fourth solo LP is uploaded today rather than the usual crash, bang, wallop\u2026<\/p>\n
This LP was\u00a0recorded in 1973\u00a0at Sound Techniques in\u00a0London, and was\u00a0produced by John Cale who also\u00a0performed\u00a0most of the instruments alongside\u00a0Brian Eno in the studio sessions. A couple of years later Brian Eno would produce and\u00a0perform in the studio\u00a0for the sessions that gave birth to the Thin White Duke\u2019s\u00a0best work, \u2018Low\u2019 and \u2018Heroes\u2019.\u00a0Eno\u2019s solo LP from 1975, \u2018Another Green World\u2019 is also a class vinyl outing. Seemingly this period in Eno\u2019s life was most productive indeed. Another ex-Roxy Music member was also involved in the sessions that produced these tracks. Phil Manzanera performed all the guitar parts. Nico performs vocal parts on all the compositions with grace and maturity. She also performs all the harmonium parts.<\/p>\n
Listening to this work is an unforgetable experience.<\/p>\n
Text below ripped from allmusic.com.<\/p>\n
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It is one of the most entrenched visions in the rock critic\u2019s vocabulary; Nico as doomed valkyrie, droning death-like through a harsh gothic monotone, a drained beauty pumping dirges from her harmonium while a voice as old as dirt hangs cobwebs round the chords. In fact she only made one album which remotely fits that bill, this one, and it\u2019s a symbol of its significance that even the clich\u00e9 emerges as a thing of stunning beauty.<\/p>\n
Her first album following three years of rumor and speculation, \u201cThe End\u201d was consciously designed to highlight the Nico of already pertinent myth. Stark, dark, bare, and frightening, the harmonium dominant even amid the splendor of Eno\u2019s synthesized menace, John Cale\u2019s childlike piano, and Phil Manzanera\u2019s scratchy, effects-whipped guitar, it is the howling wind upon wuthering heights, deathless secrets in airless dungeons, ancient mysteries in the guise of modern icons. Live, Nico took to dedicating the final cut, a sparse but heartstoppingly beautiful interpretation of the former German national anthem, to terrorist Andreas Baader, even as the song itself conjured demons of its own from an impressionable Anglo-American audience. Nico later admitted she intended the performance in the same spirit as Jimi Hendrix rendered \u201cStar Spangled Banner.\u201d But \u201cDas Lied Der Deutschen\u201d. \u201cDeutschland Uber Alles\u201d has connotations which neither tribute nor parody could ever undermine. It is only in the \u201990s that even Germany has reclaimed the anthem for its own. In 1974, it was positively leperous. Listen without prejudice, though, and you catch Nico\u2019s meaning regardless, even as her voice tiptoes on the edge of childlike, all but duetting with the little girl she once was, on a song which she\u2019d been singing since the cradle.<\/p>\n
The ghosts pack in. Former lover Jim Morrison haunts the stately \u201cYou Forgot To Answer,\u201d a song written about the last time Nico saw him, in a hired limousine on the day of his death; of course he reappears in the title track, an epic recounting of the Doors\u2019 own \u201cThe End,\u201d but blacker than even they envisioned it, an echoing maze of torchlit corridors and spectral children, and so intense that, by the time Nico reaches the \u201cmother\u2026father\u201d passage, she is too weary even to scream. The cracked groan which emerges instead is all the more chilling for its understatement, and the musicians were as affected as the listener. The mutant funk coda with which the performance concludes is more than an incongruous bridge. It is the sound of the universe cracking under the pressure.<\/p>\n
But to dwell on the fear is to overlook the beauty, \u201cThe End\u201d, first and foremost, is an album of intimate simplicity and deceptive depths. Nico\u2019s voice stuns, soaring and swooping into unimagined corners. No less than \u201cDas Lied Der Deutschen,\u201d both \u201cValley Of The Kings\u201d and \u201cIt Has Not Taken Long\u201d make a mockery of the lazy critical complaints that she simply grumbled along in a one-note wail, while the arrangements (most of which were Nico\u2019s own; producer Cale admits he spent most of his time in the studio simply marveling) utterly rerout even the most generous interpretation of what rock music should sound like. \u201cThe End\u201d doesn\u2019t simply subvert categorization. It defies time itself.<\/p>\n
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This post is dedicated with respect to Sam, ex of The Heretics and Campbell Buildings squalor, whose birthday it is tomorrow. Many happy returns to you. I do not know if Nico is your bag, but give it a listen. It will, I promise, be worth it!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It Has Not Taken Long \/ Secret Side \/ You Forgot To Answer \/ Innocent And Vain \/ Valley Of The Kings We\u2019ve Got The Gold \/ The End \/ Das Lied Der Deutschen Nico\u2019s uncompromising and absolutely vital fourth solo LP is uploaded today rather than the usual crash, bang, wallop\u2026 This LP was\u00a0recorded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3112,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions\/3112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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