Desertshore
by Nico
- Type: Album
- Released: 20 December 1970
- Label: Reprise
- Country: Germany
- Length: 29:12
- Community rating: 4.27/5 from 13 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On 'Desertshore', Nico鈥檚 funereal harmonium and distinctively bleak, teutonic vocals are paired with co-producer John Cale's austere, avant-garde arrangements of piano and strings. The album's eight compositions evoke a desolate, cinematic, and medieval atmosphere, functioning in part as a soundtrack to Philippe Garrel's film 'The Inner Scar' and establishing a foundational text for the emerging gothic rock subculture.
Genres
Descriptors: folk, acoustic, avant-garde, minimal, droning, experimental, atmospheric, funereal
Tracklist
- Janitor Of Lunacy (04:03)
- The Falconer (05:42)
- My Only Child (03:30)
- Le Petit Chevalier (01:16)
- Abschied (03:04)
- Afraid (03:30)
- Mutterlein (04:39)
- All That Is My Own (03:28)
Credits
- Nico - vocals, harmonium, written-by, harpsichord, conductor [prompter]
- John Cale - all other instruments except trumpet, harmony voices, producer, arranged by, featuring
- Adam Miller - harmony voices
- Ari Boulogne - vocals on "le petit chevalier"
- Joe Boyd - co-producer
- John Wood - engineered by
- Nigel Weymouth - design [cover and liner designed by]
- Annagh Wood - ch艙urs