Vinyl Record
Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis - She Walks in Beauty
Buy Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis — She Walks in Beauty on 2LP vinyl at Kilmorna, Listowel, Ireland. BMG edition.
2LP · 2021 · BMG
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2021 2LP on BMG, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel, ship within Ireland from EUR 5.95 per record or outside Ireland from EUR 12.00 per record.
She Walks in Beauty brings Marianne Faithfull's readings of poetry into the musical world of Warren Ellis. The eleven-piece programme draws on Byron, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Hood and Tennyson, with the title poem opening a sequence that ends in The Lady of Shalott. Faithfull's delivery keeps the words close and tangible, while Ellis gives them room to resonate. The record rewards listening to the grain and pace of the voice as much as to the meaning of each line. Familiar poems such as Ozymandias and Ode to a Nightingale can take on a different scale when encountered in this setting. Across two LPs, the collaboration offers a meeting of literary performance and atmospheric music, with neither element reduced to decoration.
Poetry had long been part of Faithfull's artistic life, and this 2021 collaboration makes that interest the whole record. It is a revealing way to hear her interpretive presence: the emotional movement comes through timing, emphasis and restraint, while Ellis supplies a setting shaped around the readings.
This BMG double-vinyl edition presents the eleven-poem album by Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis. The artwork pairs a landscape image with a pale border. The album is a spoken-word collaboration with music; collectors approaching it through Faithfull's rock recordings will find a deliberately different kind of performance.
Weathered, intimate spoken-word performances framed by spacious, atmospheric music, with an unhurried pace and an emphasis on texture and phrasing.
Recommended for: Marianne Faithfull listeners interested in her interpretive voice; Fans of Warren Ellis's atmospheric musical settings; Readers of Romantic poetry who enjoy performed readings; Collections linking spoken word, ambient music and literature.
Who performs on She Walks in Beauty? Marianne Faithfull reads the poetry, with music by Warren Ellis. The album is credited to Faithfull with Ellis. Are these original song lyrics? The programme uses poems by writers including Byron, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Thomas Hood and Alfred Tennyson. Is this the double-vinyl version? Yes. The supplied BMG edition is on two LPs and contains the eleven-poem album programme listed on this page.