NICO Desertshore 1971 UK REPRISE RSLP 1st PRESSING
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62
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£ 62
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Apr 25, 2014
Sold Date
Apr 15, 2014
Start Date
£ 20
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5
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Great Britain
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Description
NICO Desertshore 1971 UK REPRISE RSLP 1st PRESSING
FULLY TEXTURED G&L SLEEVE, A BEAUTIFUL & HAUNTING LP
NICODesertshore
UK REPRISE (RSPL6424) FIRST PRESSING (January 1971) OF NICO'S HAUNTING AND BEAUTIFUL LP
LOVELY COPY - BARELY PLAYED
PRESSED ON HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL (152g) WITH THE FIRST ISSUE UK TAN REPRISE LABELS WHICH CARRY THE RSLP CATALOGUE NUMBER BUT NO "MADE IN UK' TEXT
FIRST PRESS MATRIX: RSLP 6424 A-1*T / RSLP 6424 B-1*T
MOTHERS/STAMPERS: E/1 and E/1
THE LP IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL SINGLE TEXTURED SLEEVE "Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL WHITE POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE WITH UK PATENT NO. AND FOREIGN PATENTS PENDING TEXT PRINTED IN BLUE
While Nico was the member of the Velvet Underground who had had the least experience in music prior to joining the group (while she had recorded a pop single in England, she'd never been a member of a working band before Andy Warhol introduced her to the Velvets), she was also the one who strayed farthest from traditional rock & roll after her brief tenure with the band, and by the time she recorded Desertshore, her work had little (if anything) to do with traditional Western pop.
John Cale, who produced and arranged Desertshore, once described the music as having more to do with 20th century classical music than anything else, and while that may be going a bit far to make a point, even compared to the avant-rock frenzy of the Velvet Underground's early material, Desertshore is challenging stuff.
Nico's dour Teutonic monotone is a compelling but hardly welcoming vocal presence, and the songs, centred around the steady drone of her harmonium, are often grim meditations on fate that are crafted and performed with inarguable skill and intelligence, but the album's downbeat tone gets to be heavy going by the end of side two.
Cale's arrangements are superb throughout, and "My Only Child," "Afraid," and "The Falconer" are quite beautiful in their own ascetic way, but like the bulk of Nico's repertoire, Desertshore is an album practically designed to polarise its listeners; you'll either embrace it's darkness or give up on it before the end of side one.
Then again, given the thoroughly uncompromising nature of her career as a musician, that's probably just what Nico had in mind.
Side 1: Janitor Of Lunacy / The Falconer / My Only Child / Le Petit Chevalier
Side 2: Abschied / Afraid / Mitterlein / All That Is My Own
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels which carry just a small number of light spindle traces
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT+
Both surfaces shine like-new - just a couple of tiny marks
VINYL Audio: EXCELLENT
Great sound on this first pressing - deep, rich and warm with a nice loud cut and my play-check at volume found nothing but the common intermittent ticks always found on this pressing (I have never heard one that plays MINT - I simply don't think they exist) otherwise, plays beautifully. Rather harshly graded as EX but I really don't think you'll find a better sounding copy
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
The delicate textured sleeve has some storage rub to the top/bottom edges but little else to fault - good and solid
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVE WITH ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: FREE (2nd Class Recorded Delivery)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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