Description
Nicos second solo album, 1968s The Marble Index, and third solo album, 1970s Desertshore, have long been out of print. These reissues include audio mastered from the original tapes and previously unreleased photos of Nico by Guy Webster.Nicos haunting vocals predicted the Gothic movement, and coproducer and Velvet Undergrounds bandmate John Cales startingly modern classical production ensured The Marble Indexs timeless appeal.The iconic music journalist Lester Bangs wrote, The Marble Index is the greatest piece of avant garde classical, serious music of the last half of the 20th century so far, and The New Yorker recently hailed both records as austere miracles of will and invention.CD with 12page booklet and two bonus tracks.
