The Marble Index

• Artist : Nico
• Artist : John Cale
• Binding : Audio CD
• EAN : 0075596109826
• Format : Import
• Label : Warner
• Languages : Original Language: English
• Manufacturer : Warner
• Number Of Discs : 1
• Package Dimensions : 0.54 inches (Height) x 5.55 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 4.97 inches (Width)
• Package Quantity : 1
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : Warner
• Release Date : 2010-08-06
• SKU : 2847205 0075596109826
• Studio : Warner
• UPC : 075596109826

The former Velvet Underground chanteuse's second solo album, The Marble Index, remains capable, decades after its gestation, of reducing the most vibrant of social gatherings to a morbid silence within three tracks. The Marble Index never got played on the radio, except by disc jockeys who were tired of their work and couldn't be bothered writing the letter of resignation. Which is to say that it's hard work. Her debut solo effort, Chelsea Girl, released a couple of years earlier, had contained songs written by Jackson Browne and Lou Reed, and some occasional semblance of a tune had therefore occasionally infested Nico's trademark stentorian drone. She wrote The Marble Index herself, and while her disdain for melody and John Cale's discordant but sympathetic arrangements occasionally achieve a certain fluency, getting from one end of The Marble Index to the other remains a challenge that deters all but the boldest: the Paris-Dakar rally of pop albums. --Andrew Mueller

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

• Disc 1

  • 1: Prelude
  • 2: Lawns Of Dawns
  • 3: No One Is There
  • 4: Ari's Song
  • 5: Facing The Wind
  • 6: Julius Caesar (Memento Hodie)
  • 7: Frozen Warnings
  • 8: Evening Of Light
  • 9: Roses In The Snow
  • 10: Nibelungen

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