(2020) Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer-Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace





Review:

Nick Cave’s Idiot Prayer virtual concert will enjoy a second life as an album release and cinematic experience. The Australian alternative rock icon’s solo show at Alexandra Palace will be issued as a 22-track double album, from Nov. 20. For the special performance, Cave played a stripped-back set at the piano, returning to early Bad Seeds works, and more recent songs from his Grinderman project and the Australian Music Prize-nominated Ghosteen album. Reflecting on recent months, Cave says the silence of the lockdown sparked “the idea of not only recording the songs, but also filming them.” On June 19, he recounts, “surrounded by Covid officers with tape measures and thermometers, masked-up gaffers and camera operators, nervous looking technicians and buckets of hand gel, we created something very strange and very beautiful that spoke into this uncertain time, but was in no way bowed by it.” Cave continues, “This is the album taken from that film. It is a prayer into the void – alone at Alexandra Palace – a souvenir from a strange and precarious moment in history. I hope you enjoy it.” Recorded in Ally Pally’s cavernous West Hall during the lockdown, Cave’s set was captured on film by cinematographer Robbie Ryan, edited by Nick Emerson, and the audio was recorded by Dom Monks.











Tracklist:

01 - Spinning Song

02 - Idiot Prayer

03 - Sad Waters

04 - Brompton Oratory

05 - Palaces of Montezuma

06 - Girl in Amber

07 - Man in the Moon

08 - Nobody's Baby Now

09 - (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For

10 - Waiting for You

11 - The Mercy Seat

12 - Euthanasia

13 - Jubilee Street

14 - Far from Me

15 - He Wants You

16 - Higgs Boson Blues

17 - Stranger Than Kindness

18 - Into My Arms

19 - The Ship Song

20 - Papa Won't Leave You, Henry

21 - Black Hair

22 - Galleon Ship





Media Report:

Genre: chamber pop

Format: FLAC

Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM

Bit rate mode: Variable

Channel(s): 2 channels

Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz

Bit depth: 16 bits