She Walks in Beauty (with Warren Ellis) Marianne Faithfull
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Album-Release:
2021
HRA-Release:
30.04.2021
Label: BMG Rights Mgmt France SARL
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Artist: Marianne Faithfull
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- 1 She Walks in Beauty (with Warren Ellis) 02:37
- 2 The Bridge of Sighs (with Warren Ellis) 04:55
- 3 La Belle Dame sans Merci (with Warren Ellis) 04:15
- 4 Ode to a Nightingale (with Warren Ellis) 06:49
- 5 To Autumn (with Warren Ellis) 03:16
- 6 Ozymandias (with Warren Ellis) 03:08
- 7 The Prelude: Book One Introduction (with Warren Ellis) 02:50
- 8 Surprised by Joy (with Warren Ellis) 02:08
- 9 To the Moon (with Warren Ellis) 02:21
- 10 So We'll Go No More a Roving (with Warren Ellis) 02:20
- 11 The Lady of Shallot (with Warren Ellis) 11:46
Info for She Walks in Beauty (with Warren Ellis)
Absolutes Traumpaar! Das neue einzigartige Album von Marianne Faithfull - voller Poesie und Musik. Vertont von Warren Ellis, mit Nick Cave, Brian Eno und Vincent Ségal.
Mit She Walks In Beauty veröffentlicht Marianne Faithfull in Kollaboration mit dem Komponisten und Multiinstrumentalisten Warren Ellis eines der markantesten und einzigartigsten Alben ihrer langjährigen und außergewöhnlichen Karriere. Die Aufnahmen fanden kurz vor und während des ersten Covid 19-Lockdowns statt, währenddessen die Singer-/ Songwriterin sich selbst mit dem Virus infizierte und fast an der Krankheit starb. Zu den musikalischen Mitwirkenden zählen neben Warren Ellis auch Nick Cave, Brian Eno sowie Cellist Vincent Ségal und Produzent Head. Mit She Walks In Beauty erfüllt sich Faithfull den lang gehegten Wunsch, ein Album aufzunehmen, das Poesie mit Musik verbindet.
Es ist ein Album, für das sie tief in ihre Vergangenheit eintaucht und das ihrer großen Leidenschaft für die englischen Dichter der Romantik entspringt eine Leidenschaft, die sich während ihres Studiums bei Mrs. Simpson an der St. Joseph s Convent School in Reading entwickelte, bevor sie im Alter von gerade mal 16 Jahren nach London ging und eine völlig neue Welt betrat - die Welt von As Tears Go By, von Mick Jagger und den Rolling Stones, Top Of The Pops - den left-hand path des Pop und des Ruhms der Bühnenstars. Es folgten Ikonografie der Sechzigerjahre und Empörung, sowie die anschließenden Jahre, die vom Kampf mit der Sucht geprägt waren und 1979 dann die Rückkehr zu ihrer kraftvollen Weiblichkeit und künstlerischen Autonomie mit der Veröffentlichung des Albums Broken English, auf dem sie Heathcote Williams' Gedicht Why D'Ya Do It? in einen Song verwandelte.
Marianne, die schon vor langer Zeit bewiesen hat, dass sie eine großartige Interpretin ist, erweckt nun dieses besondere Gedicht zum Leben, in dem sie es auf ihrem neuen gleichnamigen Album “She Walks In Beauty” veröffentlicht, das am 30. April überall erhältlich sein wird. Man könnte fast sagen, dass Marianne Faithfull sich seit fast 60 Jahren auf dieses Album vorbereitet hat. “Mit 13 oder 14 Jahren kaufte ich mir ein Buch – ‘Palgrave’s Golden Treasury‘ – das hat mich auf Anhieb begeistert und für die Welt der Poesie und Gedichte geöffnet, viele verschiedene Gedichte”, erinnert sie sich. “Und dann war da ja auch noch meine Englischlehrerin im Kloster, Mrs. Simpson. Das war ungefähr ein Jahr bevor ich entdeckt wurde – ich war damals sehr glücklich. Dann kam das Showbiz. Und auch wenn ich die Schule nie beendet habe, habe ich in der Zeit viel gelernt und all das Wissen hat mich im Grunde auch nie wieder losgelassen. Ich hatte also gewissermaßen mein ganzes Leben lang die Idee in meinem Kopf, dass ich diese wunderschöne Poesie-Platte mit Musik machen wollte.“
Nun – mit 73 Jahren – ist sie dabei, sich ihren Traum zu erfüllen. Das Album wäre jedoch nicht dasselbe ohne die unglaubliche Musik, die von Mariannes langjährigem Freund und Kollaborateur Warren Ellis komponiert wurde, der seit 1993 Mitglied der Bad Seeds ist und Komponist von fast 20 Film- und Theatermusiken (u.a. ‘The Road’ und ‘The Proposition’). Warren und Marianne arbeiten seit ihrem im Jahr 2005 erschienenen Album “Before the Poison” erfolgreich als Musiker und Songwriter miteinander. Die musikalischen Texturen auf “She Walks In Beauty” sind in enger Zusammenarbeit mit dem Produzenten Head entstanden.
Mariannes Stimme trägt deutlich die Spuren eines Menschen, der viele Leben gelebt hat und schon oft mit Verlust in Berührung gekommen ist. Es ist eine Stimme, in der sich die eigentliche Essenz der Poesie – Liebe, Sehnsucht, Rausch, Inspiration – verdichtet, die aus sich selbst heraus spricht und in ihrer eigenen Schönheit daherkommt. Die Texturen bilden einen kraftvollen Kontrast zu den Lesungen.
Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull
A beautiful and articulate individual in the London scene of the 1960s, Marianne Faithfull was the product of her unusual background as the convent school-educated daughter of an English MI6 spy father and dancer mother from the Austro-Hungarian von Sacher-Masoch family.
Spotted, in 1964 at the age of 17, by The Rolling Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham and finding herself only three months later a Top 10 pop star with her evocative reading of Jagger/Richards’ As Tears Go By – she has lived a wholly eventful life and produced a wide and varied catalogue of albums.
Beginning with the wistful folk and baroque pop of her mid-1960s work, Marianne ventured into darker territory in 1969 with Sister Morphine, a classic collaboration with Jagger/Richards which (as the b-side of her Something Better single) caused something of a controversy. Misinterpreted as a pro-drug song – when in reality it imagined a man in hospital dying after a car crash – the record was pulled from record shop shelves after two days.
The incident was emblematic of the way the newspapers unfairly vilified Marianne after the infamous bust at Keith Richards’ Redlands home in 1967. Hounded and cornered by the media, she admits now that she took solace in heroin, mistaking William Burroughs’ The Naked Lunch as something of a guide for life. “I took it absolutely for real,” Marianne laughs. “Later William said to me, ‘Marianne…that was fiction. It was not meant to be taken as a textbook of life and certainly not by you.’ I said, ‘Oh…’”
After a painful 1970s in which Marianne’s career was derailed by her personal difficulties, the singer made a spectacular return with her post-punk masterpiece, Broken English in 1979. Veering from the heartbreaking The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan to the enraged neo-reggae outbursts of Why D’Ya Do It, it was an album which found Marianne painting herself entirely in her own light and seizing absolute control of her creativity. Broken English was also the first Marianne Faithfull album to showcase her changed voice, which was variously described as “whisky-soaked” and “nicotine-stained”.
In the wake of Broken English there followed a series of albums with standouts almost too numerous to list: the torch songs of experience that made up Strange Weather (1987), the dreamlike sonic scapes of the Angelo Badalamenti-produced A Secret Life (1995), the dramatic, masterful tribute to Kurt Weill in The Seven Deadly Sins (1998). Post the millennium, Marianne has worked with a new generation of artists to achieve her creative vision, including Beck, Jarvis Cocker and Billy Corgan on 2002’s Kissin Time, Damon Albarn, Nick Cave and PJ Harvey on 2005’s Before The Poison, and Antony Hegarty and Rufus Wainwright on Easy Come Easy Go in 2008. 2011’s Horses And High Heels was a stirring set of songs overseen by her friend and longstanding collaborator, US producer Hal Willner.
In 2014, the 50th anniversary of the beginning of her recording career, Marianne released Give My Love To London. Produced by Rob Ellis and Dimitri Tikovoi and mixed by Flood, it featured an impressive roll call of studio collaborators including Adrian Utley (Portishead), Brian Eno, Ed Harcourt and Warren Ellis & Jim Sclavunos (The Bad Seeds). Songwriting contributors and co-conspirators – with Marianne penning the majority of the lyrics – include Nick Cave, Roger Waters, Steve Earle, Tom McRae and Anna Calvi.
Give My Love To London was all the more extraordinary given that it was written in the aftermath of an accident Marianne suffered in summer 2013 in Los Angeles, breaking her sacrum bone in four places. As a result, she found herself laid up for six months recovering in Paris, with little else to do but write songs, giving her the longest period of pre-production she has enjoyed for any of her albums. Once the album was recorded Marianne took a short holiday, during which she fractured her hip resulting in emergency surgery….and a prolonged recovery due to theatre-induced infection.
Despite the health complications Marianne returned to the stage for a world tour and was the subject of a luxury photo book Marianne Faithfull: A Life On Record edited by herself and Francois Ravard, published by Rizzoli, featuring iconic images of the singer by major photographers including Helmut Newton, David Bailey, Ellen Von Unwerth, Bruce Weber, Cecil Beaton and Robert Mapplethorpe.
‘Negative Capability’ is Marianne Faithfull’s 21st album and the most emotionally powerful of her 54-year recording career. Facing down arthritis and bolstered by collaborators including Warren Ellis, Nick Cave, Rob Ellis, Ed Harcourt and Mark Lanegan, ‘Negative Capability’ is charged with brutal honesty and autobiographical reflection as she addresses losing old friends, her loneliness living in her adopted city of Paris, and love.
Driven by her supernatural reinterpretative skills, florid lyricism, battle against the pain she lives with, and realised with her stellar group of musicians at La Frette studios near Paris, ‘Negative Capability’ is Marianne’s unflinchingly honest and relentlessly beautiful late-life masterpiece. The stark emotional heft, exquisitely framed by ornately sensitive musical backdrops can only be likened to the late-life works by Johnny Cash or Leonard Cohen.
Remarkably, at the same time as her music career, down the years Marianne Faithfull has enjoyed a parallel career as an actress, stretching from her 1967 debut in Chekhov’s Three Sisters and her acclaimed and haunting portrayal of Ophelia in Hamlet, through films including The Girl On The Motorcycle, Lucifer Rising, Marie Antoinette and Irina Palm. In addition, she has produced two candid, riveting autobiographies, Faithfull and Memories, Dreams and Reflections.
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