Nico's Last Concert: Fata Morgana

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Nico's Last Concert: Fata Morgana
Wilhelm-Foerster-Sternwarte, West Berlin
GenreExperimental
LabelSteamhammer/SPV
ProducerLütz Ulbrich
Nico chronology
Live Heroes
(1986)
Nico's Last Concert: Fata Morgana
(1994)

Nico's Last Concert: Fata Morgana is a live album documenting

Wilhelm-Foerster-Sternwarte. Except for the album's closing song (which was previously released on The End...), Nico and her backing band the Faction composed all the pieces specifically for the show, during which they were accompanied by optical effects and Moon
-themed projected pictures and films.

As the title of the album indicates, the concert was Nico's last, and the material on the album is among the last she (co-)wrote. Six weeks later, on July 18, she died while on vacation in Ibiza.

Track listing

All songs written by Nico, James Young, Graham Dowdall and Henry Olsen; except tracks 4, 6 and 8, which are by Nico alone.

  1. "The Sound I" – 10:42
  2. "The Hanging Gardens of Semiramis" – 9:17
  3. "Your Voice" – 7:17
  4. "I Will Be Seven" – 6:41
  5. "Fata Morgana" – 6:49
  6. "All Saints' Night" – 6:23
  7. "The Sound II" – 6:17
  8. "You Forget to Answer" – 3:57

Personnel

  • Nico – vocal, Indian pump organ
The Faction
  • James Young – piano, synthesiser
  • Henry Olsen – guitar
  • Graham "Dids" Dowdall – drums, percussion
Technical
  • Robert Sydow – engineer
  • Otto Schönthaler – mixing engineer

References