She Walks In Beauty Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis SKU: 4050538651188 Barcode: 4050538651188 22.00 £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG Records Released Date: 30th April 2021 Buying Format: 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info A unique new album of poetry and music featuring Marianne Faithfull set to the music of Warren Ellis, and featuring Nick Cave, Brian Eno and Vincent Ségal. With She Walks in Beauty, Marianne Faithfull with composer and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis releases one of the most distinctive and singular albums of her long, extraordinary life and career. It was recorded just before and during the first Covid-19 lockdown – during which the singer herself became infected and almost died of the disease – with musical friends and family including not only composer Warren Ellis but Nick Cave, Brian Eno, cellist Vincent Ségal and producer-engineer Head. She Walks in Beauty fulfils Faithfull’s long-held ambition to record an album of poetry with music. It’s a record that draws on her passion for the English Romantic poets, a passion she fostered in her A Level studies with one Mrs Simpson at St Joseph’s Convent School in Reading. From there she entered the world of As Tears Go By, of Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, Top of the Pops and the left-hand path of pop and stage stardom. Sixties iconography and outrage followed, as did her subsequent battles with addiction before her 1979 return to powerful female and artistic autonomy with Broken English, an album which featured her setting to music Heathcote Williams’ poem of eviscerating rage, Why D’Ya Do It? Drawing deep on the poetry of Shelley, Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, Tennyson and Thomas Hood, Faithfull’s vocal performances set to Ellis’s subtle collages of sound draw out the heart, the quick, the vibrant living matter in all these great poems, making them fresh, renewing them with the complex, lived-in timbres of her voice, and set to a subtle palette of ambient musical settings. It’s both a radical departure and a return to her original inspirations as an artist and performer. The greatest poetry is best heard, and Faithfull’s accounts of some of the greatest lyric poetry in our language – Keats’ Ode To A Nightingale and Ode To Autumn – are spine-tingling in their deep understanding of the poetry’s powerful currents of meaning and identification. On Nightingale, her voice opens up like an epic landscape, while in Shelley’s miniature masterpiece, To The Moon, she sounds otherworldly, as if calling down from another medium, and the atonal, otherworldly sound textures provided by Eno on Bridge of Sighs and La Belle Dame Sans Merci become a compelling foil for Faithfull’s haunting interpretations of these rich, dark poems. “They’ve have been with her her whole life,” says Ellis. “She believes in these texts. That world, she inhabits it, embodies it, and that really comes through. There’s just something about the way she can deliver that is incredibly affecting.” “Eventually I always end up where I was meant to be,” says Faithfull. “I’ve noticed that. It may take a long time, but I get there. I never forget these things. After all these years, I’ve drawn the strands back and they still mean something and they resonate more, actually, because I now have life experience. Life and near-death experience. Many times! Not just once.” She Walks in Beauty is scheduled for release April 30th, with artwork created for the album by British artist and lifelong friend, Colin Self, and with the full texts of the poems, and commentary, included in the liner notes. While Faithfull continues to recover from the after-effects of Covid-19, and the world around us continues to struggle with the impact of the worldwide pandemic, these are poems and performances to steady and lift the spirit. Artist Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis Genre Rock And Pop Label BMG Records Buying Options 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Format 2LP , Gatefold Sleeve Condition New Country UK Track Listings She Walks in Beauty The Bridge of Sighs La Belle Dame sans Merci Ode to a Nightingale To Autumn Ozymandias The Prelude : Book One Introduction Surprised by Joy To the Moon So We’ll Go No More a Roving The Lady of Shallot Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop Nearly New View Product Quick View Bad Company Straight Shooter Rock And Pop | Swan Song | 1LP Released 25th October 2022 £14.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Bad Company Straight Shooter £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Swan Song SKU: nn252127 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th October 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Grateful Dead History Of The Grateful Dead, Volume 1 (Bear’s Choice ∙ 50th Anniversary Remaster) Rock And Pop | RBDO 2171 | 1LP Released 5th May 2023 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Grateful Dead History Of The Grateful Dead, Volume 1 (Bear’s Choice ∙ 50th Anniversary Remaster) £30.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: RBDO 2171 SKU: 0603497835492 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th May 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Tom Waits Blue Valentine Rock And Pop | Asylum Records | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 15th April 2024 £16.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Tom Waits Blue Valentine £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Asylum Records SKU: nn284588 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 15th April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Alicia Keys Alicia Rock And Pop | RCA | 2LP Released 18th December 2020 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alicia Keys Alicia £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: RCA SKU: 19439734111 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 18th December 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Teleman Breakfast Rock And Pop | Moshi Moshi | 1LP, Includes CD Released 29th May 2014 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Teleman Breakfast £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Moshi Moshi SKU: MOSHILP56 Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 29th May 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Green Day Greatest Hits: Gods Favorite Band Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Warner Bros | 2LP Released 14th November 2017 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Green Day Greatest Hits: Gods Favorite Band £30.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Warner Bros SKU: 0093624909187 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 14th November 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Turin Brakes The Optimist LP – 20th Anniversary Rock And Pop | Two Piers | 2LP Released 9th July 2021 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Turin Brakes The Optimist LP – 20th Anniversary £32.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Two Piers Released Date: 9th July 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Roxy Music Roxy Music Rock And Pop | Back To Black | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 22nd April 2015 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Roxy Music Roxy Music £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Back To Black SKU: ROXYLP1 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 22nd April 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Claire Richards Euphoria Rock And Pop | Demon Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Picture Disc Released 25th August 2023 £24.00 - £26.00 Select options Claire Richards Euphoria £24.00 - £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Demon Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Picture Disc Released Date: 25th August 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Bruce Springsteen Lucky Town Rock And Pop | Columbia | 1LP Released 29th October 2018 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bruce Springsteen Lucky Town £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Columbia SKU: 88985460161 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th October 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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