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El sello inglés Rhino UK acaba de lanzar un disco en formato doble que compila dos álbumes de la actriz/modelo/cantante alemana y legendaria colaboradora de la Velvet Underground, Nico. Este incluye 17 tracks inéditos que van desde demos y tomas descartadas hasta versiones alternativas para diversos temas.

The Frozen Borderline (1968-1970) reúne los clásicos The Marble Index (1969) y Desertshore (1970), dos de los trabajos que la alemana realizó junto a John Cale, ex guitarrista de la Velvet, quien colaboró como productor y compositor.

El tracklist es el siguiente:

Disco Uno (The Marble Index):

01 Prelude
02 Lawns of Dawns
03 No One Is There
04 Ari’s Song
05 Facing the Wind
06 Julius Caesar (Memento Hodie)
07 Frozen Warnings
08 Evening of Light
09 Sagen Die Gelehrten [previously unreleased session outtake]
10 Reve Reveiller [previously unreleased session outtake]
11 Roses in the Snow [session outtake]
12 Niebelungen (harmonium version) [previously unreleased session outtake]
13 Lawns of Dawns (alternate version) [previously unreleased]
14 No One Is There (alternate version) [previously unreleased]
15 Ari’s Song (alternate version) [previously unreleased]
16 Facing the Wind (alternate version) [previously unreleased]
17 Julius Caesar (alternate version) [previously unreleased]
18 Frozen Warnings (alternate version) [previously unreleased]
19 Evening of Light (alternate version) [previously unreleased]

Disco dos (Desertshore):

01 Janitor of Lunacy
02 The Falconer
03 My Only Child
04 Le Petit Chevalier
05 Abschied
06 Afraid
07 Mutterlein
08 All That Is My Own
09 My Only Child [previously unreleased demo]
10 Janitor of Lunacy [previously unreleased demo]
11 Abschied Ode (Death/Farewell) [previously unreleased demo]
12 You Are Beautiful [Afraid] [previously unreleased demo]
13 The Falconer [previously unreleased demo]
14 On the Desert Shore [All That Is My Own] [previously unreleased demo]

Para ver el video de ‘Frozen Warnings’, el mismo donde aparecen Andy Warhol y Bob Dylan, vaya acá.