The Frozen Borderline: 1968-1970

by Nico

The Frozen Borderline: 1968-1970 cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 26 February 2007
  • Label: Rhino
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 2:23:20
  • Community rating: 4.06/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An exhaustively expanded double-disc reissue combining the Velvet Underground affiliate's two bleakest, most demanding avant-folk masterpieces: 'The Marble Index' and 'Desertshore'. Produced by John Cale, the recordings feature her haunting, heavily-accented baritone accompanied primarily by the droning, wheezing notes of a harmonium. The collection includes previously unreleased outtakes, further solidifying her legacy as an uncompromising pioneer of gothic and neoclassical aesthetics.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, avant-garde, funereal

Tracklist

  1. Prelude (0:59)
  2. Lawns Of Dawn (3:10)
  3. No One Is There (3:36)
  4. Ari's Song (3:20)
  5. Facing The Wind (4:54)
  6. Julius Caesar (Memento Hodie) (5:05)
  7. Frozen Warnings (4:01)
  8. Evening Of Light (5:38)
  9. Sagen Die Gelehrten - Outtake (3:58)
  10. Reve Reveiller - Outtake (4:07)
  11. Roses In The Snow - Alternate Version (4:00)
  12. Nibelungen - Complete Version (3:11)
  13. Lawns Of Dawn - Alternate Version (3:19)
  14. No One Is There - Alternate Version (3:40)
  15. Ari's Song - Alternate Version (3:13)
  16. Facing The Wind - Alternate Version (5:06)
  17. Julius Caesar (Memento Hodie) - Alternate Version (5:04)
  18. Frozen Warnings - Alternate Version (4:21)
  19. Evening Of Light - Alternate Version (5:41)
  20. Janitor Of Lunacy (4:02)
  21. The Falconer (5:41)
  22. My Only Child (3:26)
  23. Le Petit Chevalier (1:17)
  24. Abschied (3:05)
  25. Afraid (3:26)
  26. Mutterlein (4:41)
  27. All That Is My Own (3:30)
  28. My Only Child - Demo (4:19)
  29. Janitor Of Lunacy - Demo (4:02)
  30. Abschied Ode (Death/Farewell) - Demo (2:59)
  31. You Are Beautiful [Afraid] - Demo (3:18)
  32. The Falconer - Demo (5:47)
  33. On The Desert Shore (All That Is My Own) - Demo (2:45)
  34. Hidden Track - Frozen Warnings - Demo (14:23)

Credits

  • Nico - primary artist, written-by, vocals, harmonium
  • Adam Miller - harmony vocals
  • Jac Holzman - supervised by [production supervisor]
  • Stuart Batsford - supervised by [project supervision for rhino uk]
  • Ari Boulogne - vocals [uncredited]

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