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This is a must!!
Well I've read some of the reviews posted and there is a mixture of views here. This was as we know her final studio album, and what an album it is. Yes it does have a little more "electronica" than her previous albums but that is due in part to the influence of The Faction. The haunting music and surreal percussion that became synonymous with them post 85 onwards.. Just listen to the sample fuelled Thatcher Rap (if you can find it) and you'll know what i mean...
So to the album we have here... A must for all Nico fans, and yes, it may be a bit heavy for first time Nico searchers but it is a must for all. Her haunting rendition of My funny valentine is sublime as well as heart renching, and the same goes for Das Lied Von Einsanen Madchens... Then the supeb percussion style of Greame "Dids" Dowdel mixes well with Nico in the track.. Win A Few and Into the Arena. Granted Konig wouldn't have been my choice for the last track but it is still a good track...
It's only with hindsight that some are disappointed that this was her final album and not one more poignant... But I think that this is a masterpiece os minimalism in its entirity... Well done Nico and well done the Faction...

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Nico with synths was loved by some, but not me.
Really lost and just not a happening c.d. at all. I can't understand why people like this.

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Camera Obscura
I find it interesting no one mentions what it is. It's a lens without which we'd have no pictures of the past. Augustine Heerman (what the Dutch called the Czech) an Ambassador from Maryland, brought one (and tobacco it's said) to New Amsterdam where some of the first views of the fledgling city that became New York City were drawn. It is like a hood with a lens at the top which projects the outside into the darkness where on the table an artist can trace the outline of what's outside. It is still in use in many art classrooms for making copies. Augustine Heerman had a "warehouse" in New Amsterdam and I helped excavate it and depict its remains below a parking lot between Whithall St. and Broad St. in 1983 or so, next to the Financial District. The former Induction Center (now a New York Health club covered in "steel and glass" (Lennon) had a gaping hole in it then where it had been bombed during the Vietnam War. Erroneously referred to as the "Broad Street Site" by archaeologists the warehouse was between Bridge and Pearl Streets. A 16th century Dutch coin was found there commemorating Holland's independence from the Spanish who once ruled them. Paul Revere's grandfather also lived there and others, above the warehouse's remains, and a doctor in the early Dutch colony lived nearby. The English "Allerton's Warehouse" was just outside "The Wall" and was used as a living accommodation in former Marshal Treux's orchard and landing.