Friday 23 November 2007

Nick Cave - and the Ass Saw the Angel

Cave's reading is very careful and deliberate, his voice reverberating and very occasionally verging on singing. Each of the read excerpts features minimal backing: the first with a stately, morose piano and harmonica; the second sports a sick, barreling barroom piano; and the third and fourth are less music and more the creepy chattering of rasping metal. The theater music is mostly instrumental, the only vocals are provided by Katy Beale on "Cosey's Lullaby" and "Beth's Sleepy River." It varies from the fairly straight-forward, if monumentally grim, intonation of tracks like "Sleepy River Piano" and "Sanctum" to the ambient industrial rattle of "Pa's Traps" and the genuinely distressing "Euchrid on the Run," with a stop along the way at sinister gospel (see "Angels"). A must for Cave fanatics, and the Ass Saw the Angel makes perfect accompaniment to reading the novel.

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burkensoir said...

Thanks rockgenie, I'd either forgotten or maybe didn't even know that these performances existed. Looking forward to some beautifully depressing gothic fun.