John Cale - Words For The Dying [Clear vinyl]

All Saints Records

£22.32

Format: Coloured Vinyl LP
Catalogue No.: WAST006LPC
Barcode: 5056614704563
Release Date: 04 Aug 2023
Genre: Indie/Alternative

 First time vinyl repress of this John Cale album, originally released on the Opal label in 1989, produced by Brian Eno.
 “‘Words For The Dying’ has at its heart The Falklands Suite, Cale’s baroque if heartfelt response to the Anglo-Argentinian War, which finds him setting the poems of his beloved Dylan
Thomas to music. When building songs around another’s words, the results often sound forced, but Cale does a magnificent job of compressing Thomas’s lyricism into neat melodic phrases,
themselves just components of a vast harmonic mega-structure scored for the USSR’s Orchestra of Symphonic & Popular Music of Gostelradio. A project that could easily have collapsed under the weight of its own ambition is instead a late masterpiece, thanks to Cale’s deep-seated compositional genius, and unobtrusive but resonant production from Brian Eno.” - Kiran
Sande
 Clear vinyl with printed inner sleeve and digital download card.

Tracklisting
The Falkland Suite
Introduction
There Was A Saviour
Interlude I
On A Wedding Anniversary
Interlude II
Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Songs Without Words
Songs Without Words. I
Songs Without Words. II

The Soul Of Carmen Miranda