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Nick Cave announced /diot Prayer: UC ger TRC) Palace — originally conceived as a Ca eM Mele the UK emerging from lockdown SR NAW Merit RCCL) Tarun h ia tt kars spoke into this uncertain moment, aCe M RUC a Tuite By aL ae A reaction to the confinement of many preceding months spent in iso, Idiot Prayer was shot inside London’s empty Alexandra Palace (CCA Rarer cae cn em mae Lucas Le as hell, basically, and yet another career-defining moment in this Ceca lel Mutat PAU Las MCU ar LL to date. As well as being picked OTR lee es elm Ue eel eee ORR album format. In Album Tales, Bryget Chrisfield hits you with some juicy nuggets of wisdom surrounding classic icons and their records. This month it’s the iso-inspired performance album from our national treasure Nick Cave, Idiot Prayer. a moveme Cave created The Red Hand Files website to communicate directly with his fans, and the cathartic experience of posting responses to fan-submitted questions directly inspired his 2019 in-conversation tour. During these shows, Cave answered fan questions on the fly and also performed a selection of songs from his astounding back catalogue - solo on piano. And it was these stripped-back arrangements — which wonderfully showcased Cave's mastery of tickling the ivories while also dialling up the emotional resonance of his portrayals — that inspired /diot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace. ETT 1 a During one of his ‘In Conversation’ shows at Melbourne Town Hall, Cave answered a Cash-related question by proclaiming, “It doesn't matter what anyone says anymore: Johnny Cash recorded ‘one of my songs.” Cave's piano-and-a-microphone version of The Mercy Seat — stripped right back to its skeleton — flies closer to Cash's striking rendition (which appears on 2000's American III: el Palace (2020) eMule Mlle Ela MMtuEu Cue oae re eunar (date unknown). Credit theredhandfiles.com visit stack.com.au Solitary Man record) than The Bad Seeds’ lurching, theatrical OG iteration of this feverish death rattle of a song. Also, The Mercy Seat's closing line has got to qualify as one of the best lyrical twists ever written: *..But I'm afraid | told a lie.” MI nT ICANT aN LEA TT CP 0 envy According to Cave, he has “never cea sponsored a musical instrument” before, but became so besotted with the Fazioli piano he played at Alexandra Palace (“It whispered to me. It roared at me. It was the most beautiful instrument | had ever played") that he requested his manager phone the company and procure one. Hilarity ensued, as Cave details in The Red Hand Files, when the “Italian woman” who answered his manager's phone call mistakenly thought he represented the actor Nicolas Cage before promptly hanging up on him. But although said manager's follow-up call ended in similar fashion, Cave remains forever hopeful: “| wait for the day a giant removal van will pull up outside my house, my manager hanging out the passenger window, wearing a Tshirt with a piano on it, and a big smile on his face, screaming ‘Fazioli!’" Cave performed Into My Arms at his friend Michael Hutchence’s funeral, requesting his performance not be televised out of respect for the family. On /diot Prayer, Into My Arms aches with melancholic optimism — and Cave is the king of this specific lovesong style... Continue reading the full ar Bc aC Ly S jbhifi.com.au JIB HIFFE
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