View basket “Thank Christ for the Bomb (Standard Edition)” has been added to your basket. 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 View Product Quick View Paul Draper Spooky Action – Indie Exclusive Rock And Pop | Kscope | 180g, 2LP, Includes 7" Released 11th August 2017 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paul Draper Spooky Action – Indie Exclusive £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Kscope SKU: KSCOPE913S Formats: 180g, 2LP, Includes 7" Released Date: 11th August 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jill Barber Metaphoria Rock And Pop | Outside Music | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 6th July 2018 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jill Barber Metaphoria £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Outside Music SKU: LPOUTS9120LE Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 6th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View tUnE-yArDs Sketchy Rock And Pop | 4AD | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th March 2021 £19.00 Select options tUnE-yArDs Sketchy £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: 4AD Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th March 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Tom Jones The World Of Tom Jones Rock And Pop | Decca | 180g, 1LP Released 20th December 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tom Jones The World Of Tom Jones £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Decca SKU: 831275 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 20th December 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Weyes Blood And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow Rock And Pop | Sub Pop | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th November 2022 £19.00 - £20.00 Select options Weyes Blood And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow £19.00 - £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sub Pop Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th November 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Ty Segall Twins Rock And Pop | Drag City | 1LP Released 8th October 2012 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ty Segall Twins £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Drag City SKU: DC530 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 8th October 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kinks, The Live In San Francisco 1969 Rock And Pop | London Calling | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 15th May 2020 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kinks, The Live In San Francisco 1969 £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: London Calling SKU: LCLPC5055 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 15th May 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Maylee Todd Maloo Rock And Pop | Stones Throw | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 4th March 2022 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Maylee Todd Maloo £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Stones Throw SKU: STH2435LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 4th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Geese 3D Country Rock And Pop | Partisan / Play It Again Sam | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 23rd June 2023 £21.00 - £23.00 Select options Geese 3D Country £21.00 - £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Partisan / Play It Again Sam Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 23rd June 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Spielbergs Running All The Way Home EP Rock And Pop | By The Time It Gets Dark | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 25th October 2019 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Spielbergs Running All The Way Home EP £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: By The Time It Gets Dark SKU: TIME004LP Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 25th October 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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