Nico ORIG DUT LP Drama of exile EX ’81 Aura AUL715 Art Rock Velvet Underground
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Nico ORIG DUT LP Drama of exile EX ’81 Aura AUL715 Art Rock Velvet Underground

Original Dutch LP released in 1981 on Aura Records. Cat: AUL715.
It was a shock at the time and today, the thrill still lingers. Almost 15 years after she quit the Velvet Underground, and with four stunningly stubborn solo albums under her belt, Nico was finally ready to return to rock & roll, with a conventional band and a clutch of great songs which proved that, whatever else she'd lost during a career spent on the bleakest fringe of the idiom, the arts of composition and interpretation were not part of it. As a member of the Velvets, she'd performed two songs, the stately "All Tomorrow's Parties" and the fragile "Femme Fatale." Now she added a third to her bow, a relentless "Waiting for the Man" which took its lead from composer Lou Reed's own recent revisions of the song but never lost sight of the trademark primitivism which gave it its original power that's not Maureen Tucker on drums, but close your eyes and it could be. Elsewhere, David Bowie's "Heroes" was given an almost militaristic going over, the chopping guitars, rolling drums, and a triumphant Davey Payne sax solo conspiring to prove that while Bowie had written about what he saw in Berlin, Nico sang of what she knew. It was stirring stuff and, again, all the more surprising for who was behind it. Nico reveled in the confusion. "It was really boring, all that quiet stuff," she said of her past albums and, as if to hammer home the point, ensured that even her most reflective moments now swam within a brittle swirl of new wave-inflected rock, and the traditional Eurasian influences which band members Philippe Quilichini and Mahammad Hadi added to Nico's own unique references.

Tracks : Genghis Khan/ Purple lips/ One more chance/ Henry Hudson/ Waiting for the man/ Sixty-forty/ The sphinx/ Orly flight/ Heroes.   There are a few light spindle marks on labels. Record has some light scuff marks that cause a few light crackles and is in Excellent condition. Cover has light ringwear, three small sticker stains on top right corner and some small surface tears around edges and is in VG+ condition.


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 1426 (GS 9.0.3 (1426))


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