View basket “New Wave Of The 80’s Collected” has been added to your basket. La Vita Nuova Maria McKee SKU: AFAR001LP Barcode: 809236160119 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Afar Records Released Date: 19th June 2020 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Ardent, anglophilic, anachronistic, luddite/maximalist and baroque, ‘La Vita Nuova’ was written as an elegy to desire. Upon its completion it became a conjuring. Candid and passionate, Maria McKee has quite simply, had a beatific awakening and in a crescendo of prose, her new album ‘La Vita Nuova’ unlocks this story, sketching out a momentous and transformative time in her life that started decades ago when she sang in her living room by the fire with her older brother, the late, great musical innovator Bryan MacLean, co-founder, (along with Arthur Lee), of the seminal LA band LOVE. Along the way she retooled punk and country as the lead singer of pioneering Americana band Lone Justice, released a string of evocative and eclectic solo records, wrote chart-topping hits and inspired the devotion of a loyal cultish fan base before seemingly disappearing… It’s been thirteen years since her last studio album ‘Late December’ which was released in 2007. ‘La Vita Nuova’ is a homage to Dante’s opus on unrequited love. Though the unconscious impetus for making this album was to process the shock of one of McKee’s most prodigious personal challenges thus far, the dissolution and reinvention of her marriage, the songs are progressive and lyrically dense. The production is orchestral and operatic and takes it cues from McKee’s lexicon of icons – John Cale, Scott Walker and David Bowie. And so, it’s a conversation that demands a level of deep concentration. One may need to listen more than once to connect with the confessional narrative that is held in subtext and to understand that within the lines of prose the “muse”, or “Beatrice” of the album is also a heart-breaking phantom of McKee’s younger, idealistic self. And a metaphor for youth in general. As reflected in the haunting, cascading melodic strains of the Joni Mitchell hinted “I Should Have Looked Away” and the poignant, nostalgic wistfulness of lead track “Effigy of Salt”. McKee has also since moved to London. The album seems to herald this move as there are nods to Sandy Denny, Kate Bush and English composers and poets McKee admires such as Ralph Vaughn Williams, Keats and Swinburne whose work she had immersed herself in while writing the album. McKee’s professed Spiritual Father, William Blake is name-checked on the track ‘Right Down To The Heart of London’, a love letter to the psychogeography of McKee’s expatriate home. ‘Ceann Bró’ was inspired by the astral projected liaisons between William Butler Yeats and Maud Gonne on the westernmost point of Ireland as McKee is an initiate of an occult lodge in the tradition of Yeats’ and Gonne’s The Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn. The lyrics in ‘Page Of Cups’ flirt with the “unexpected, surprising muse” figure in the minor Tarot arcana. The track recalls ‘Forever Changes’-era Love as does ‘I Just Want To Know That You’re Alright’. Both are heavily influenced by brother Bryan MacLean. It would be easy to believe that ‘La Vita Nuova’ indeed could have been “channelled” as McKee eludes to the songs descending “like manna from the throne” in the lyrics for ‘Courage’. The nineteen-piece orchestral arrangements were composed and arranged by McKee who has had no formal classical training and doesn’t read a note of music. But really that is the nature of creative catharsis which generally operates with a will of its own. Artist Maria McKee Genre Rock And Pop Label Afar Records Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Side A: A1 Effigy Of Salt A2 Page Of Cups A3 Let Me Forget A4 I Should Have Looked Away Side B: B1 Right Down To The Heart Of London B2 La Vita Nuova B3 Little Beast Side C: C1 Courage C2 Ceann Bró C3 The Last Boy Side D: D1 I Never Asked D2 I Just Want To Know That You're Alright D3 Weatherspace D4 However Worn Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Maria McKee and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Maria McKee Late December/ Live Acoustic – RSD 2023 Rock And Pop | Afar Records | 1LP Released 22nd April 2023 £27.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Maria McKee Late December/ Live Acoustic – RSD 2023 £27.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Afar Records SKU: AFAR006LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd April 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Motorhead March Or Die Rock And Pop | Back on Black | 180g, 2LP Released 17th September 2012 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Motorhead March Or Die £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Back on Black SKU: BOBV320LP Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 17th September 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Liela Moss Who The Power Rock And Pop | Bella Union | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 7th August 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Liela Moss Who The Power £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Bella Union SKU: BELLA1044V Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 7th August 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dirty Honey Dirty Honey Rock And Pop | Dirt Records | 1LP Released 3rd November 2023 £17.00 Select options Dirty Honey Dirty Honey £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Dirt Records Formats: 1LP Released Date: 3rd November 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Jeff Beck Group In Concert for the BBC 1972 Rock And Pop | 1960's Records | 1LP Released 24th February 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jeff Beck Group In Concert for the BBC 1972 £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: 1960's Records SKU: RANDB121LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th February 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 Shotgun Jimmie Field Of Trampolines Rock And Pop | You Changed Records | 1LP Released 25th March 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Shotgun Jimmie Field Of Trampolines £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: You Changed Records SKU: LPYC025 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th March 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View DJ Khaled Grateful Rock And Pop | Sony Music | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 11th August 2017 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders DJ Khaled Grateful £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sony Music SKU: 88985465241 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 11th August 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Black Flag Nervous Breakdown Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | SST | 10", EP/Mini Album Released 6th May 2013 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Black Flag Nervous Breakdown £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: SST SKU: SST10916 Formats: 10", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 6th May 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Patrick Watson Wooden Arms Rock And Pop | Secret City Records | 1LP Released 17th November 2023 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Patrick Watson Wooden Arms £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Secret City Records SKU: SCR12LPS Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th November 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Marianne Faithful Before the Poison Rock And Pop | Naive | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 30th June 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Marianne Faithful Before the Poison £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Naive SKU: BLV7861 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 30th June 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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