Warren Ellis: Nina Simone's Gum, Flexibler Einband
Nina Simone's Gum
- A Memoir of Things Lost and Found
- Publisher:
- Faber And Faber Ltd., 09/2022
- Binding:
- Flexibler Einband
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780571365630
- Item number:
- 10855231
- Volume:
- 211 Pages
- Weight:
- 454 g
- Format:
- 202 x 151 mm
- Thickness:
- 22 mm
- Release date:
- 15.9.2022
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave.
On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Dr Nina Simone gave a rare performance as part of Nick Cave's Meltdown Festival. After the show, in a state of awe, Warren Ellis crept onto the stage, took Dr Simone's piece of chewed gum from the piano, wrapped it in her stage towel and put it in a Tower Records bag. The gum remained with him for twenty years; a sacred totem, his creative muse, growing in significance with every passing year.
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Nina Simone's Gum is about how something so small can form beautiful connections between people. It is a story about the meaning we place on things, on experiences, and how they become imbued with spirituality. It is a celebration of artistic process, friendship, understanding and love.
Biography
Warren Ellis is an Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer, most famous for his work as collaborator and bandmate of Nick Cave, in both the Bad Seeds and Grinderman. Both solo and alongside Nick he is also a multi-awardwinning film composer whose soundtracks include The Proposition, The Road, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Mustang and most recently This Train I Ride. His own band Dirty Three have released eight studio albums since 1994 and he is an in-demand producer and writer, working with artists including Marianne Faithful, Jupiter and Okwess and Tinariwen. Faber & Faber published his debut book in Nina Simone's Gum in 2021 with an introduction by Nick Cave.
