John Cale Words For The Dying

First time vinyl repress of a John Cale album or iginally released on the Opal label in 1989, produced by Br ian Eno

“Words For The Dying has at its hear t The Falklands Suite, Cale’s baroque if hear tfelt response to the Anglo-Argentinian War, which finds him setting the poems of his beloved Dylan Thomas to music When building songs around another’s words, the results often sound forced, but Cale does a magnificent job of compressing Thomas’s lyr icism into neat melodic phrases, themselves just components of a vast har monic mega-str ucture scored for the USSR’s Orchestra of Symphonic & Popular Music of Gostelradio. A project that could easily have collapsed under the weight of its own ambition is instead a late master piece, thanks to Cale’s deep-seated compositional genius, and unobtr usive but resonant production from Br ian Eno ” Kiran Sande

Limited edition clear vinyl Includes pr inted inner sleeve and download card

WAST006LPC | 5056614704563

Limited edition clear vinyl with download card

Released 4 August 2023 | Boxlot: 20

Side One

THE FALKLAND SUITE

1 Introduction

2 There Was A Saviour Inter lude I

3 On A Wedding Anniversar y

Side Two

THE FALKLAND SUITE

1 Inter lude II

2 Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed

3 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

SONGS WITHOUT WORDS

4 Songs Without Words I

5 Songs Without Words II

6 The Soul Of Car men Miranda

Produced by Brian Eno

“The Falklands Suite” perfor med by the Orchestra of Symphonic & Popular Music of Gosteleradio USSR; conducted by Alexander G Mikhailov; recorded at Gosteleradio Studios, Moscow; engineered by Sasha Karasiov; and the Choir of Llandaff Cathedral Choir School, South Wales; Choir master : Dr Michael Smith John Cale; recorded at The Strongroom, London and Wilder ness Studios, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England; engineered by Stephen Taylor and Brian Eno

“Songs Without Words I & II” perfor med by John Cale; recorded at The Living Room, New York City, USA; engineered by Paul Rice and Blaise Dupuy

“The Soul Of Car men Miranda” perfor med by John Cale and Brian Eno; recorded at Wilder ness Studios, Woodbridge; additional viola and violin: Neil Catchpole