View basket “Who Will Save The World? The Mighty Groundhogs” 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 Baxter Dury The Night Chancers Rock And Pop | PIAS | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 20th March 2020 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Baxter Dury The Night Chancers £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: PIAS SKU: PIASLL141LPC Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 20th March 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Groundhogs Thank Christ for the Bomb (Standard Edition) Rock And Pop | Fire Records | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 29th March 2024 £23.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Groundhogs Thank Christ for the Bomb (Standard Edition) £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fire Records SKU: FIRELP507 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 29th March 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View David Crosby For Free Rock And Pop | BMG Rights Management | 1LP Released 18th February 2022 £19.00 Select options David Crosby For Free £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG Rights Management Formats: 1LP Released Date: 18th February 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Circa Survive Two Dreams Rock And Pop | Rise | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 13th January 2023 £30.00 Select options Circa Survive Two Dreams £30.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rise Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 13th January 2023 Read More Select options Nearly New View Product Quick View Joni Mitchell Court And Spark Rock And Pop | Asylum | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 29th February 2024 £14.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Joni Mitchell Court And Spark £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Asylum SKU: nn281930 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 29th February 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket On Sale View Product Quick View Threatmantics Shadow On Your Heart Rock And Pop | Recordiau Ffatbyrg Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 18th February 2019 £9.99 £15.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Threatmantics Shadow On Your Heart £9.99 £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Recordiau Ffatbyrg Records SKU: FBR001 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 18th February 2019 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Taylor Swift Midnights (Lavender) Rock And Pop | EMI | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 21st October 2022 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Taylor Swift Midnights (Lavender) £30.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: EMI SKU: 4811923 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 21st October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Seamus Fogarty The Curious Hand Rock And Pop | Domino | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 6th October 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Seamus Fogarty The Curious Hand £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Domino SKU: WIGLP409 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 6th October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Abba Voyage Rock And Pop | Polydor | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 5th November 2021 £24.00 Select options Reserve View Reservations Abba Voyage £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Polydor Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 5th November 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Select options View Product Quick View Eric Clapton/BB King Riding With The King (20th Anniversary) Blues | Rhino | 180g 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Released 26th June 2020 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Eric Clapton/BB King Riding With The King (20th Anniversary) £28.00 Genre: Blues Label: Rhino Released Date: 26th June 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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