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Marianne Faithfull With Warren Ellis - She Walks In Beauty CD/2LP

Marianne Faithfull With Warren Ellis - She Walks In Beauty CD/2LP

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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" fulfills 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. 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.

Tracklist:

1. She Walks in Beauty (Lord Byron)
2. The Bridge of Sighs (Thomas Hood)
3. La Belle Dame sans Merci (John Keats)
4. Ode to a Nightingale (John Keets)
5. To Autumn (John Keets)
6. Ozymandias (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
7. The Prelude: Book One Introduction (William Wordsworth)
8. Surprised by Joy (William Worsdworth)
9. To the Moon (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
10. So We'll Go No More a Roving (Lord Byron)
11. The Lady of Shallot (Lord Alfred Tennyson)

About this product: this is available on CD and 2LP formats.

The CD is the deluxe that comes in a book-style sleeve with a 28-page booklet, featuring original art by Colin Self.

The 2LP is pressed on 180g white vinyl and housed in a gatefold sleeve.