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Marble Index

Marble Index
Nico

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Track Listing

  1. Prelude
  2. Lawns Of Dawns
  3. No One Is There
  4. Ari's Song
  5. Facing The Wind
  6. Julius Caesar (Memento Hodie)
  7. Frozen Warnings
  8. Evening Of Light
  9. Roses In The Snow
  10. Nibelungen

Product Details

  • Released on: 1996-04-01
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Original language: English
  • Dimensions: .22 pounds

Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.co.uk
The former Velvet Underground chanteuse's second solo album, The Marble Index, remains capable, decades after its gestation, of reducing the most vibrant of social gatherings to a morbid silence within three tracks. The Marble Index never got played on the radio, except by disc jockeys who were tired of their work and couldn't be bothered writing the letter of resignation. Which is to say that it's hard work. Her debut solo effort, Chelsea Girl, released a couple of years earlier, had contained songs written by Jackson Browne and Lou Reed, and some occasional semblance of a tune had therefore occasionally infested Nico's trademark stentorian drone. She wrote The Marble Index herself, and while her disdain for melody and John Cale's discordant but sympathetic arrangements occasionally achieve a certain fluency, getting from one end of The Marble Index to the other remains a challenge that deters all but the boldest: the Paris-Dakar rally of pop albums. --Andrew Mueller

Chronique amazon.fr
Encore plus habité que Chelsea Girl dont le répertoire était exclusivement composé de reprises, The Marble Index est un des sommets de la carrière de Nico chanteuse. La voix, monocorde, parfaitement en place sur des arrangements signés par John Cale dont l'aspect dépouillé évoque des images d'étendues désertiques, psalmodie de véritables incantations. Après avoir rencontré Bob Dylan à New York, Nico est l'amie de Jim Morrison qui semble lui ouvrir là les portes de la perception sous l'influence du LSD. Constamment au bord du gouffre, chacune des perles baroques interprétées (auxquelles il faut ajouter "Roses In The Snow" et "Nibelungen" par rapport au LP original) doit beaucoup aux violons (et à l'alto) orchestrés par Cale (qui a eu tout loisir d'en explorer les méandres en compagnie des compositeurs contemporains Tony Conrad et La Monte Young au sein de Dream Syndicate) ainsi qu'à l'harmonium qui sert d'unique accompagnement au sublime "Ari's Song" dédié à son fils Ari Bologne qu'elle a eue d'Alain Delon. Vertigineux donc. --Philippe Robert