Chris Connelly (Revolting Cocks and Ministry) pays tribute to The Velvet Underground’s Nico on ‘Eulogy to Christa: A Tribute to the Music & Mystique of Nico’ LP

November 11th Scottish musician Chris Connelly (Revolting Cocks and Ministry) will present his new album “Eulogy to Christa: A Tribute to the Music & Mystique of Nico”, a 24-track offering released by Shipwrecked Industries in the USA and Easy Action in the UK, paying tribute to Nico – the iconic muse of The Velvet Underground. The release coincides with Connelly’s birthday.

Out today is a new video for “Femme Fatale”; the video was created by Iain W. Mutch / Walkerandwilliam in Scotland. Originally performed by Nico with The Velvet Underground, the song was originally written by Lou Reed.

Initially planned as an album of 10 Nico covers, Connelly ultimately decided to write some additional compositions, spanning her life. The Nico material spans from her first Jimmy Page-composed single and her time with The Velvet Underground to her solo recordings up until her death. Connelly musically follows her from Berlin to New York via Paris, Ibiza, and Rome, then back through Paris, London, Edinburgh, Manchester and up to her tragic death in Ibiza on 17 July 1988.

The album opens with “Ripcord, Ripcord”, which Connelly wrote surrounding a little known detail about Nico’s life – her rape by a military officer while she was a teenager holding an administrative position for the US Army.

For this album, Connelly worked with producer and long-time collaborator Chris Bruce, who is a band member of Meshell Ndegeocello and also worked with Seal, Aaron Neville, Bob Dylan, The Waterboys, My Brightest Diamond, Cheryl Crow and Sam Phillips. The album was, in part, inspired by the book “You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone” by Jennifer Otter Bickerdicke, who contributed to album liner notes, noting “This is a record to be played at full blast, all the way through, as a commemoration not just to Nico the person, the musician, but to art for art’s sake, for making something because it is important and needs to be done – an idea that is as rare and precious as Nico herself.”

1. Ripcord, Ripcord 04:11
2. Via Margutta 04:35
3. The Last Mile 02:27
4. Union Square West 02:26
5. Andy, Incidentally 05:10
6. Femme Fatale 03:15
7. Eulogy to Lenny Bruce 04:14
8. Oh Jim II 05:12
9. Frozen Warnings 04:21
10. I Cannot Care for You 04:08
11. The Falconer 06:41
12. The Black Rooms of Richelieu 04:08
13. Valley of the Kings 05:15
14. Reims 12/74 05:02
15. A Slow Jones in New York 03:36
16. 80s Beat Boys 04:39
17. Running Pure 04:30
18. Sixty Forty 04:50
19. Vegas 04:06
20. Draw From It (Like A Vampire) 05:24
21. Saeta 04:05
22. Tananore 04:44
23. Fa Massa Calor 03:29
24. Hanging Gardens of Semiramis 06:06

Roman P-V - 2022-12-03 14:12:34