Nico - The Marble Index

Artist....: Nico


Title.....: The Marble Index


Rel. Date.: 1969


Type/Genre: avent garde/folk


Size......: 39mb


Format....: mp3


Bitrate...: 128




Tracklist:

1. Prelude


2. Lawns Of Dawns


3. No One Is There


4. Ari's Song


5. Facing The Wind


6. Julius Caesar (Memento Hodie)


7. Frozen Warnings


8. Evening Of Light


9. Roses In The Snow


10. Nibelungen

The former Velvet Underground chanteuse's second solo album, The Marble Index, remains capable, decades after its

gestation, of reducing the most vibrant of social gatherings to a morbid silence within three tracks. The Marble Index

never got played on the radio, except by disc jockeys who were tired of their work and couldn't be bothered writing the

letter of resignation. Which is to say that it's hard work. Her debut solo effort, Chelsea Girl, released a couple of

years earlier, had contained songs written by Jackson Browne and Lou Reed, and some occasional semblance of a tune had

therefore occasionally infested Nico's trademark stentorian drone. She wrote The Marble Index herself, and while her

disdain for melody and John Cale's discordant but sympathetic arrangements occasionally achieve a certain fluency,

getting from one end of The Marble Index to the other remains a challenge that deters all but the boldest: the

Paris-Dakar rally of pop albums.