Nico - Chelsea Town Hall

Nico — Chelsea Town Hall

Limited edition double LP on translucent blue vinyl

Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio

Gatefold jacket features period liner notes from Fraser Massey and a previously unpublished photo from the show

Features a career-spanning selection from Velvets through Drama Of Exile and the appropriate Doors cover

A 1985 live performance from the Velvet Underground's cult icon! Nico's doom-laden contralto voice, the bizarre choice of a harmonium for accompaniment, and the sheer eeriness and other-worldliness of her repertoire mark Nico as one of the most extraordinarily original performers of the rock era. On translucent blue vinyl!

These recordings were subsequently issued as a tribute to her unique talent. The Velvet Underground themselves were criminally neglected while they were still a working band. Nico's solo career also suffered from being too dark to turn her into a mainstream success. It didn't help that the odds were also stacked against her. She was a female artist at a time when rock was mostly male dominated, and a German during an era when few non-British or American acts were given the scope to make their mark on the world stage.

Foolishly dismissed by many as little more than a junkie's role model, Nico's work was vastly under-valued during her lifetime; her self-destructive tendencies got far more attention than her music. But that doom-laden contralto voice, the bizarre choice of a harmonium for accompaniment, the middle European accent which she never quite lost, and the sheer eeriness and other-worldliness of her repertoire mark her out as one of the most extraordinarily original performers of the rock era.

 

 

LP 1 Side A

1. Tananore

2. One More Chance

3. Procession

LP 1 Side B

1. My Heart Is Empty

2. Janitor Of Lunacy

3. The Sphinx

4. You Forget To Answer

LP 2 Side A

1. Fearfully In Danger

2. Sixty Forty

3. Femme Fatale

4. Purple Lips

LP 2 Side B

1. All Tomorrow’s Parties

2. Saeta

3. The End

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