As controversial a figure as she was, Nico blazed a remarkable trail through the world of art-rock, and not only with VELVET UNDERGROUND but also with quite a few other great musicians, including Kevin Ayers and Brian Eno as well as, which was less documented, TANGERINE DREAM. Only a few of those collaborations saw release outside of bootlegs, yet there’s a new box set now, issued on November 7th, that gathers a lot of previously unheard material – of limited appeal yet interesting nonetheless.
And Friends
There are ten discs in the “Nico And Friends” collection, each – apart from the first two – coming from a single place and period, with the singer’s performances focused on those she was working with there and then.
Volume 1 – With Lou Reed – The Bedroom Tapes 1 – New York, April 1970:
1. Conversation
2. Conversation
3. These Days
4. Conversation
5. Conversation
6. Secret Side – acapella
7. All Tomorrow’s Parties
8. Conversation
9. Lou tuning
10. More tuning
11. All Tomorrow’s Parties
12. Conversation
13. Lou runs through All Tomorrow’s Parties
14. All Tomorrow’s Parties
15. Conversation
16. These days
17. I’ll Keep It With Mine #1
18. I’ll Keep It With Mine #2
19. Conversation
20. I’ll Keep It With Mine #3
21. I’ll Keep It With Mine #4
22. I’ll Keep It With Mine #5
23. Conversation
24. I’ll Keep It With Mine + Conversation
25. I’ll Keep It With Mine #6
26. Conversation + playback of the tape
27. Conversation
28. Little Sister #1
29. Little Sister #2
30. Little Sister #3
Volume 2 – With Lou Reed – The Bedroom Tapes 2 – New York, April 1970:
1. All Tomorrow’s Parties
2. I’ll Be Your Mirror
3. Femme Fatale
4. Conversation
5. I’ll Keep It With Mine #1
6. Conversation
7. I’ll Keep It With Mine false start
8. I’ll Keep It With Mine #2
9. Conversation, playback
10. Jesse James and other folk songs
11. Little Queenie
12. Little Sister #1
13. Little Sister #2
14. Conversation with Danny Fields
15. Playback, conversation
16. All Tomorrow’s Parties
17. Conversation, playback
18. All Tomorrow’s Parties
19. Somebody
20. Conversation
Volume 3 – With John Cale and Brian Eno – Berlin, October 1974:
1. Janitor Of Lunacy
2. The Falconer
3. No One Is There
4. Frozen Warnings
5. Guts
6. Abschied
7. Muetterlein
8. Child’s Christmas In Wales
9. Fear
10. Fear (continued)
11. Das Lied der Deutschen
12. You Forget To Answer
13. Innocent And Vain
14. Buffalo Ballet
15. The End
Volume 4 – With TANGERINE DREAM – Paris, December 1974:
1. Janitor Of Lunacy
2. The Falconer
3. Valley Of The Kings
4. The End
5. Abschied
6. Mutterlein
7. Frozen Warnings
8. You Forget To Answer
9. We’ve Got The Gold
10. No One Is There
11. Ari’s Song
12. Atmospherics
Volume 5 – With Kevin Ayers – Arles, August 1975:
1. Genghis Khan
2. Purple Lips
3. Tananore
4. No One Is There
5. Falling In Love Again
6. Secret Side
7. Falling In Love Again
8. Janitor Of Lunacy
9. You Forget To Answer
10. The End
Volume 6 – With Lutz Graf-Ulbrich – Berlin, February 1978:
1. Gengis Khan
2. The Sphinx
3. Purple Lips
4. Procession
5. Henry Hudson
6. Abschied
7. Konig
8. Valley Of The Kings
9. You Forget To Answer
10. The End
11. Secret Side
12. Frozen Warnings
13. Das Lied der Deutschen
Volume 7 – With John Cale – New York, February 1979:
1. The End
2. Genghis Khan
3. Procession
4. Secret Side
5. Purple Lips
6. No One Is There
7. Henry Hudson
8. Femme Fatale
9. All Tomorrow’s Parties
10. Abschied
11. Valley Of The Kings
12. The Falconer
13. Frozen Warnings
14. Das Lied der Deutschen
15. Janitor of Lunacy
16. You Forget To Answer
Volume 8 – With Tim Hardin & Lutz Ulrich – Live – Los Angeles, June 1979:
1. Procession
2. Purple Lips
3. Henry Hudson
4. Femme Fatale
5. All Tomorrow’s Parties
6. I’ll Keep It With Mine
7. A Child’s Christmas In Wales
8. Misty Roses
9. Black Sheep Boy
10. Valley Of The Kings
11. The End
Volume 9 – With THE BLUE ORCHIDS – Leicester, January 1982:
1. Leicester
2. I’m Waiting For The Man
3. Saeta
4. All Tomorrow’s Parties
5. Heroes
6. 60-40
7. Femme Fatale
8. Procession
9. Extras
10. Secret Side
11. Janitor Of Lunacy
12. Secret Side
13. Ari’s Song
14. My Only Child
15. Koenig
16. No One Is There
17. Frozen Warnings
Volume 10 – With THE FACTION – Live – New Zealand, February 1986:
1. Fearfully In Danger
2. My Heart Is Empty
3. Purple Lips
4. Tananore
5. Janitor Of Lunacy
6. One More Chance
7. Das Lied von einsamen Mädchen
8. Sixty Forty
9. Win A Few
10. The End
