CALE, JOHN – Words For the Dying

Clear Vinyl

1-LP

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First time vinyl repress of a John Cale album originally released on the Opal label in 1989, produced by Brian Eno.

1989’s Words For The Dying consists mainly of oral work, read or sung by Cale. It was written in 1982 as a response to the Anglo-Argentinian Falklands War, using poems written by fellow Welshman Dylan Thomas. Originally performed live for Dutch television at the Paradiso in Amsterdam in November 1987, with the studio version finally being laid down partly in the pre-Glasnost USSR, utilising the Orchestra of Symphonic and Popular Music of Gostelradio. As well as “The Falklands Suite”, there are also two orchestral interludes, two other solo piano pieces, “Songs Without Words”, and finally “The Soul of Carmen Miranda”, featuring Cale’s voice and a minimal electronic backing track. The album was recorded in Moscow, New York, London and Suffolk, England, and was produced by Brian Eno.