Nico Afraid
from her 1970 album Desertshore
"There has never been anyone like her in music. I think she is a genius.” Le Ramasseur De Mégots
Now I liked Nico and bought pretty much everything and saw her live in a local ‘dance’ club (how they booked her into a venue more used to ‘ladies' dancing around their handbags is anyone’s guess but . . .) and I appreciated her place within the Velvets but “genius”? Nah! She is a messed up Germanic chanteuse plumbing the depths of heroin induced despairing Teutonic mono drone rock which presumably explains why I own pretty much everything! (sic?)
And there was just something about her that made me “AFRAID!”
This again via Le Ramassuer De Mégots via Radio Camberwell . . . .Radio Camberwell calling!
Let’s hear it for the Camberwell Foxes!
Desertshore was Nico’s third album and under the orchestrations and production and Jon Cale’s piano playing it was a highly listenable sensitive album. Here on Afraid she almost sounds like a gentler little-girl-lost almost vulnerable and tender but hey . . . . . enjoy!