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Personnel includes: Nico (vocals, harmonium).
Includes liner notes by Richard Williams.
Personnel: Nico (vocals, marimba); John Cale (guitar, keyboards).
Audio Mixer: John Cale.
Photographers: Guy Webster; Gerard Malanga.
Arranger: John Cale.
The quirky, orchestrated folk-rock of Nico's 1968 debut album, Chelsea Girl, in no way prepared listeners for the stark, almost avant-garde flavor of her 1969 follow-up, The Marble Index. The chanteuse presented an uncompromisingly bleak, gothic soundscape on her second album. Dominated by spare harmonium and Nico's deep, brooding vocals, this album unveiled her singularly morose songwriting (her first record featured none of her compositions). Owing more to European classical and folk music than rock, it found little favor with 1969 audiences. But like the work of the Velvet Underground, it proved to be quite influential in the long run on a future generation of black-clad goth rockers. ~ Richie Unterberger
At the time that Nico released her first album, Chelsea Girl, in 1968, she was the toast of the Warhol crowd, a familiar face in the society pages, featuring in fashion magazines throughout the Western world. By the time The Marble Index appeared the following year, her record label advances went largely towards medical bills, as her beauty and talent diminished in the face of something very familiar to the Warhol crowd: a heroin habit. Produced by former Velvet Underground bandmate John Cale, The Marble Index established Nico as a songwriter. Her gothic compositions, intoned in her unearthly voice, captured all too well the angst of one whose much-heralded looks hid a soul that was unable to allow itself to feel or express love.

Uncut (p.92) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "THE MARBLE INDEX isn't a record you listen to. It's a hole you fall into....One of that rare breed of recordings which, the better part of four decades later, still has no adequate peer, existing in a genre all of its own."
The Wire (6/00, pp.35-6) - "...[A] glacial classic....shimmering song-mirages which disappear with the harmonium's dying notes..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.108) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Freed from pop conventions, Nico wrote stark, symbolist lyrics that appear to have issued from her subconscious..."
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List Price $11.98 (You save $1.83)
Category Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Alternative
Label Elektra
Orig Year 1969
All Time Sales Rank   21993  
CD Universe Part number 1242644
Catalog number 61098
Discs 1
Release Date Mar 19, 1991
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Producer Frazier Mohawk
Engineer John Haeny
Personnel Nico - vocals, harmonium

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Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample1.Prelude$0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample2.Lawns of Dawns  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample3.No One Is There$0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample4.Ari's Song$0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample5.Facing the Wind$0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample6.Julius Caesar (Memento Hodie)$0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample7.Frozen Warnings$0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample8.Evening of Light$0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample9.Roses in the Snow - (previously unreleased)  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample10.Nibelungen - (previously unreleased)  $0.99

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Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars) 4 stars

4 stars Amazing Nico
This is an amazing release. My Dad got me listening to this and I love "Frozen Warning". Thanks Dad.
Submitted by Gavin Heim (Irvine, CA)
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5 stars Haunting and bleak, icy and cold - but beautiful
Nico's 'THE MARBLE INDEX' is one of the most important albums of the rock era. It is timeless and unique, thanks in part to John Cale's decision not to go with any fashionable production techniques. Instead, the album is a relentlessly bleak and icy run-through of ancient, archaic medieval-style dirges...but the result is strangely beautiful. Nico's voice, deep and brooding, is perfect to deliver these dark, cold, enigmatic songs. It's a world away from the high-fashion chanteuse of The Velvet Underground, largely because here she's singing all her own material. Her harmonium accompaniment is sparse and brutal, and Cale's arrangements are alternately stark and delicate, but always haunting. The effect is similar to imagining Nico playing these songs in an ancient cathedral in the 14th century. Her melodies are simple but European and achingly beautiful, and her imagery vivid and unusual. It's a stunning, challenging album that deserves a larger audience.
Submitted by Lee (England, UK)
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3 stars Unique and matchless voice
The most important woman singer and composer in the rock history for all time. Unique and matchless voice.
Submitted by verklarung (Medellin, Colombia)
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