The Marble Index Vinyl + CD

Nicorsquos second solo album, 1968rsquos lsquoThe Marble Indexrsquo, and third solo album, 1970rsquos lsquoDesertshorersquo, have long been out of print. These reissues include audio mastered from the original tapes and previously unreleased photos of Nico by Guy Webster.Nicorsquos haunting vocals predicted the Gothic movement, and coproducer and Velvet Undergroundrsquos bandmate John Calersquos startingly modern classical production ensured lsquoThe Marble Indexrsquorsquos timeless appeal.The iconic music journalist Lester Bangs wrote, ldquolsquoThe Marble Indexrsquo is the greatest piece of lsquoavant garde classicalrsquo, lsquoseriousrsquo music of the last half of the 20th century so far,rdquo and The New Yorker recently hailed both records as ldquoaustere miracles of will and invention.rdquo