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Twilight Nina,
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This review is from: Fodder on My Wings (Audio CD)
Recorded in France, which allowed Nina to use a wider range of sounds and musicians than in the US, "Fodder" is largely taken up with her mourning following her father's death. Their complicated relationship gives rise to Nina's rewritten version of "Alone Again, Naturally" about his death, a practice of taking a familiar song and remaking it lyrically into autobiography she did often in concert then but seldom in the studio (no doubt due to copywright problems). Her voice is rusted steel wool on this but still expressive particularly of pain, rather like the later Billie Holiday when she was most in control. There is almost childlike humor too. It's not a great album but it has some great moments and is consistently surprising in small ways. "Fodder on My Wings" the song is one of her masterpieces. Her piano on this is as great as it ever was. It would not be the place to start (the Philips albums or the great "And Piano" is) but for anyone at all familiar with Nina it's very rewarding, and the best of her rather meager late output. Let's hope she enjoyed the rapture and worship with which the French regarded her; this was the flower of that period.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A very rare gem at last available in full on CD,
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This review is from: Fodder on My Wings (Audio CD)
I bought the vinyl LP on release in 1982, it has always been a favourite. Sure she does not have the perfect pitch of her Colpix years. However, what you have instead is that raw brand of emotion that only Nina could convey and which she did ever more in her later recordings. The lyrics are personal and heartfelt. I defy anyone to not be affected by the insight of "There is no returning" the first part of "People en Suisse". (Has similar sentiments to the Bernstein song "Who Am I" from NS & Piano.) Then there is "Alone again naturally", at last made available. The mixture of regret and invective has never been so graphically portayed by anyone before. This album is the successor to Baltimore; whilst it lacks the strings and sophistication of the CTI album production - it gains in being "pure" Nina and yes the RCA classic Nina Simone and Piano comes to mind. If you enjoyed that, as well as "A Single Woman" , her last studio album - you will be really glad you added this to your collection. It has aged well since its first release in 1982. Investigate and treasure.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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The Lady Sings Her Story,
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This album above all others traces the artist's origins from the aptly appointed American "Civil Rights Diva" to lady of the world. As she recounts in the happy and hilarious "Liberian Calypso" (which is sure to bring a smile to your face), it was in 1974 that she first left her home in the United States and set off to travel the world. From the Caribbean to Europe to Africa and then back to Europe again, she wandered. "Le Peuple en Suisse" she wrote after her stay in Switzerland, which she also addressed in her 1992 autobiography. To Simone, the Swiss were cold and stand-offish and this somber tune seems to be Nina's way of imploring them to "live life with fuller passion."
Her haunting recording of "Fodder in Her Wings" expresses the restlessness of her soul as she wanders the world, without a home of her own, but rather observing how others live and noting that we've lost humanity. She ends with her demanding French repetition of "Quel pays?!" If "I Loves You, Porgy" made her a star, and the popularity of "My Baby Just Cares for Me" established the rejuvenation of her career in the 1980s, then I think this surely must be considered the song that best defined the story of her life. "Alone Again, Naturally" could be a review unto itself. The sadness and sense of loss that Nina expresses on this track is overwhelming. You get that rare sense of an artist being completely honest with her listeners, holding nothing back and exposing herself to the world. On "Thandewye," she simply repeats again and again the promise she has made to God. This album is a rare treat. She sang with an intensity I don't find in today's mainstream music, a conviction to wringing out every last drop of feeling from each song she touched. When you lose yourself in her words and music, everything else is inconsequential.
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