Nico - Behind The Iron Curtain

I turned this one up at Goodwill over the weekend, and what a find it is. Here's latter-day Nico, backed by Manchester industrial/avant-garde band Faction, two of whom were previously bandmates in Ludus. While the cover says this was recorded in Warsaw, Budapest, and Prague in the fall of 1985, it was actually recorded in Rotterdam on the same tour, supporting Nico's penultimate studio album, "Camera Obscura". Dojo released the full set as a double LP set; a truncated version, which is what I found for a measly $3, came out on CD at the same time via Castle Communications.

I've barely dived into this yet, what with lots of folks doing Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales, and me needing that Region B Blu-ray of "Climax" for $10. But I'll never miss an opportunity to do a Nico imitation, so I'll be jamming this between work calls on Monday. It's the last record of her heroin years, before she got on methadone and disembarked to her final destination of Ibiza. I think it's going to be neat.

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