Nina

by Xiu Xiu

Nina cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 3 December 2013
  • Label: Graveface
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.25/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Ches Smith, Tony Malaby, Mary Halvorson, Jamie Stewart, Tim Berne, Andrea Parkins

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Jamie Stewart radically reinterprets the catalog of Nina Simone through the harrowing, deeply anxious lens of avant-garde jazz and experimental rock. Recorded in a single day, the tribute replaces traditional structures with chaotic, disturbing dissonance and raw, manic vocal performances.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, experimental, avant-garde, covers, minimal, emotive

Tracklist

  1. Don't Smoke In Bed
  2. Don't Explain
  3. Wild Is The Wind
  4. Where Can I Go Without You
  5. See Line Woman
  6. Just Say I Love Him
  7. Four Women
  8. Pirate Jenny
  9. You'd Be So Nice
  10. The Other Woman
  11. Flo Me La

Credits

  • Xiu Xiu - primary artist
  • Andrea Parkins - accordion, electronics, piano, synthesizer [moog]
  • Tim Berne - alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
  • Mary Halvorson - guitar
  • Tony Malaby - tenor saxophone
  • Willard Robison - written-by [uncredited]
  • Arthur Herzog, Jr. - written-by [uncredited]
  • Billie Holiday - written-by [uncredited]

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