- Nico's Last Concert: Fata Morgana
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Nico's Last Concert: Fata Morgana Live album by Nico Released February 22, 2000 Recorded planetarium of the Wilhelm-Foerster-Sternwarte, West Berlin, June 6, 1988 Genre Experimental Label Steamhammer/SPV Producer Lutz Ulbrich Nico chronology Live Heroes
(1986)Nico's Last Concert: Fata Morgana
(2000)Nico's Last Concert: Fata Morgana is a live album documenting Nico's performance at a show called Fata Morgana - Wüstenklänge im Planetarium (Fata Morgana - Desert Sounds in the Planetarium), held on June 6, 1988 in West Berlin as part of the European Capital of Culture festival that year. The concert took place at the planetarium of the Wilhelm-Foerster-Sternwarte. Except for the album's closing song (which was previously released on The End...), Nico and her backing band The Faction composed all pieces specifically for the show, during which they were accompanied by optical effects and Moon-themed projected pictures and films.
As the title of the album indicates, the concert would be Nico's last, and the material on the album is among the last she (co-)wrote. Six weeks later, on July 18, she died while on vacation in Ibiza.
Track listing
All tracks written by Nico, Young, Dowdall, and Olsen, unless noted otherwise.
- "The Sound I" - 10:42
- "The Hanging Gardens of Semiramis" - 9:17
- "Your Voice" - 7:17
- "I Will Be Seven" - 6:41 (Nico)
- "Fata Morgana" - 6:49
- "All Saints' Night" - 6:23 (Nico)
- "The Sound II" - 6:17
- "You Forget to Answer" - 3:57 (Nico)
Personnel
- Nico – vocal, Indian pump organ
- James Young – piano, synthesiser
- Henry Olsen – guitar
- Eric Graham Dowdall – drums, percussion
- Robert Sydow - engineer
- Otto Schönthaler - mixing engineer
References
Studio albums The Velvet Underground & Nico · Chelsea Girl · The Marble Index · Desertshore · The End... · Drama of Exile · Camera ObscuraLive albums Le Bataclan '72 · June 1, 1974 · Do or Die: Diary 1982 · Live Heroes · Behind the Iron Curtain · Nico's Last Concert: Fata MorganaCompilation albums Innocent and Vain: an Introduction to Nico · The Frozen Borderline – 1968–1970Categories:- Progressive rock album stubs
- Nico albums
- Live albums published posthumously
- 2000 live albums
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