Nick Cave Idiot Prayer (Nick Cave Alone At Alexandra Palace) VINYL 2LP⟶ View other formats & editions
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| Artist: | Nick Cave, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds |
| Title: | Nick Cave Idiot Prayer Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace VINYL 2 LP |
| Released: | 17/11/2020 |
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| Format: | VINYL 2LP |
| Country | EU |
| Barcode: | 5056167126249 |
| Catalogue number: | BS019LP |
| Store location: | AUSTRALIAN NZ |
| SKU: | Z87653 |
| Condition: | NEW |
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| Genre: | Experimental , Pop , Australia & NZ |
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In Idiot Prayer, Cave plays his songs alone at the piano in a rarely seen stripped back form, from early Bad Seeds and Grinderman, right through to the most recent Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds album, Ghosteen.
The performance was filmed by award winning Cinematographer Robbie Ryan (The Favourite, Marriage Story, American Honey) in Alexandra Palace’s stunning West Hall. It was edited by Nick Emerson (Lady Macbeth, Emma, Greta). The music was recorded by Dom Monks.
Idiot Prayer is the fourth film that Nick Cave has released in collaboration with Trafalgar Releasing, following 2018's Distant Sky - Live in Copenhagen directed by David Barnard, 2016's One More Time With Feeling directed by Andrew Dominik and 2014's award winning 20,000 Days on Earth directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard.
“The film ‘Idiot Prayer’ evolved from my ‘Conversations With…’ events. I loved playing deconstructed versions of my songs at these shows, distilling them to their essential forms. I felt I was rediscovering the songs all over again, and started to think about going into a studio and recording these reimagined versions at some stage - whenever I could find the time.
Then, the pandemic came - the world went into lockdown, and fell into an eerie, self-reflective silence. It was within this silence that I began to think about the idea of not only recording the songs, but also filming them.
We worked with the team at Alexandra Palace - a venue I have played and love - on securing a date to film just as soon as they were allowed to re-open the building to us.
On 19th June 2020, surrounded by Covid officers with tape measures and thermometers, masked-up gaffers and camera operators, nervous looking technicians and buckets of hand gel, we created something very strange and very beautiful that spoke into this uncertain time, but was in no way bowed by it.
This is the album taken from that film. It is a prayer into the void - alone at Alexandra Palace - a souvenir from a strange and precarious moment in history. I hope you enjoy it.”
-Nick Cave
| A1 | Spinning Song | 1:48 |
| A2 | Idiot Prayer | 3:09 |
| A3 | Sad Waters | 3:44 |
| A4 | Brompton Oratory | 3:22 |
| A5 | Palaces Of Montezuma | 3:44 |
| A6 | Girl In Amber | 4:32 |
| B1 | Man In The Moon | 3:04 |
| B2 | Nobody's Baby Now | 3:57 |
| B3 | (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For | 4:30 |
| B4 | Waiting For You | 3:03 |
| B5 | The Mercy Seat | 4:55 |
| B6 | Euthanasia | 2:59 |
| C1 | Jubilee Street | 4:32 |
| C2 | Far From Me | 4:14 |
| C3 | He Wants You | 2:53 |
| C4 | Higgs Boson Blues | 6:59 |
| C5 | Stranger Than Kindness | 3:33 |
| D1 | Into My Arms | 4:54 |
| D2 | The Ship Song | 3:08 |
| D3 | Papa Won't Leave You, Henry | 4:31 |
| D4 | Black Hair | 3:03 |
| D5 | Galleon Ship | 3:31 |
| format | vinyl |
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