SONGS
JANITOR OF LUNACY (4:01)
A piano deposit Transfer to a heavy wall of sound of John Cales organ and harmonium Nicos. This cathedral-like monotone Schwellton seems to hypnotize the listener. Then sets a Nicos proclaim Direction singing. This is an impressive example of Gothic music, two decades before this genre became fashionable.
Nicos seltbstkomponierte lyric can be interpreted as free association, although here allusions to sterilization and abortion are out unreadable. A fossilized cradle and a "fatal-paralyzed eternal memory" to bring hope?
"Janitor of Lunacy" is a majestic opener, the one does not necessarily perceive as pulling down if you ignore the text.
The Falconer (5:39)
An Eric Satie-like piano will be replaced after about a minute of Nicos sonorous-swelling Harmonium, the track is chamber music in pure form. From the phrase "Angel of the Night" Nicos occurs Harmonium in the background and the song turns into a pretty piano track ", the Falcone (e) r sounds for Nico those years quite friendly and not at an angle. Again, you should the text is not taken too seriously, Nicos singing is always difficult to understand I do not exclude that Nico has phantsiemäßig well intentioned:. the Egyptian sand, the falcon and Angel of the Night.
The sudden Mood break in "hopeless emptiness" with "Silver traces erase my empty pages / Candlelight" could mean a self-critical allusion to their known heroin addiction, although this tragedy should have started only 5 years later.
But it could also mean silver moonlight.
MY ONLY CHILD (3:27)
The impenetrable seriousness of the first two songs soaked in lighter now and human spheres. "My Only Child" is dedicated to her son (Father Alain Delon) "Ari" Christian Aaron Boulogne. "My Only Child" is an instrumental friendly a capella song with children's choir in the background. Here at last is found that Nico had indeed retained its avant-garde style of "Marble Index", but something told her that the songs on Desertshore something should be less inclined than on "Marble Index". After all, she was already working on her fourth record label, the previous three had terminated the contracts for unsaleability.
The text is self-pity, he shows Nicos unreflective reaction, why she was taken away from her child. Despite the fact that your unhealthy lifestyle would not give up even after their departure from New York and soon a well-known phenomenon of the Parisian drug scene was.
LE PETIT CHEVALIER (1:12)
As Nico had managed in 1970 to include the voice of her son Ari? He was not living at the time with her, and the mother was allowed in the family Delon only for short visits. Probably the voice of Aris comes from audio tapes of previous years, it was in 1970 already eight years old.
The "Petit Chevalier" here sounds like an infant in the song. Gockenspielartige soft sounds, harpsichord and viola John Cales in the background accompany this short song.
FAREWELL (3:02)
Already the first notes of the harmonium, viola and harpsichord sound so dramatic that you lived through an ordeal before her singing begins. The ideal accompaniment for Good Friday. The sung in ancient German song is the saddest on "Desert Shore". Although Nico comes from Germany, she intoned in a German so stretched-monotonous debate that one suspects an unknown foreign language.
AFRAID (3:27)
The melödiöseste title Desertshore, which is accompanied by a minimalist piano. A similarly nicely sounding song has only brought back 15 years later with "My Funny Valentine" to "Camera Obscura" Nico. Both remind me of a piano bar. In the text, the melancholic undertones resigned to not be missing here. Originally, the song "You are beautiful and you are alone" titled, typically Nico.
Mütterlein (4:38)
The only track that does not so like it on the CD, even if it does not fall from the sound out of the ordinary. Nicos voice and her harmonium sounds something of monotonous, and this text still ... Nico I like less, if the voice sounds too pushy and deliberately monotonous.
ALL THAT IS MY OWN (3:54)
Here John Cales Viola sounds oriental, the keyboard behave in the background. Somehow reminds me the song to the Far Eastern shimmering "All Tomorrows Parties." Desertion Shore "may mean the coincidence of desert and sea.
CONCLUSION:
Desert Shore is a deeply sad modern classic. Appeals to whom this music should still define "The End" "The Marble Index" and. Those three CDs are in my view the ultimate work of Nico, "Desert Shore" is instrumental the most accessible of the three. Sorry, no bonuses on the CD.
"Deshertshore" incidentally, was also the soundtrack for Philippe Garrell's experimental film "La Cicatrice interieure", with Nico lived at that time in Paris together.
