View basket “Court And Spark” 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 Black Keys, The Delta Kream Rock And Pop | Nonesuch | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 14th May 2021 £22.00 - £33.00 Select options Reserve View Reservations Black Keys, The Delta Kream £22.00 - £33.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Nonesuch Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 14th May 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Select options View Product Quick View Dave Grohl Play Rock And Pop | Columbia | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 24th September 2018 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dave Grohl Play £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Columbia SKU: 19075888391 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 24th September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Arab Strap As Days Get Dark Rock And Pop | Rock Action | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 5th March 2021 £18.00 - £19.00 Select options Arab Strap As Days Get Dark £18.00 - £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rock Action Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 5th March 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Stanley Brinks Good Moon Rock And Pop | Fika Recordings | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 20th October 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stanley Brinks Good Moon £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fika Recordings SKU: FIKA096LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 20th October 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Blackfoot Marauder Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP, Includes Insert Released 2nd March 2015 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Blackfoot Marauder £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1347 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Insert Released Date: 2nd March 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Team Me Blind As Night Rock And Pop | Propeller Recordings | 1LP Released 26th January 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Team Me Blind As Night £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Propeller Recordings SKU: PRR102 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th January 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Elliott Smith Figure 8 Rock And Pop | Plain Recordings | 180g, 2LP Released 3rd April 2008 £40.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Elliott Smith Figure 8 £40.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Plain Recordings SKU: PLAIN127LP Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 3rd April 2008 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Max Gomez Rule The World Rock And Pop | New West | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 16th June 2014 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Max Gomez Rule The World £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: New West SKU: NW5067 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 16th June 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View A Place to Bury Strangers Worship Rock And Pop | Dead Oceans | 1LP Released 8th June 2012 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders A Place to Bury Strangers Worship £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Dead Oceans SKU: DOC066LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 8th June 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Spoon Gimme Fiction (Deluxe Reissue) Rock And Pop | Matador | 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 27th May 2016 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Spoon Gimme Fiction (Deluxe Reissue) £27.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Matador SKU: OLE11041 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th May 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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