TOM WAITS The Black Rider Very Rare Orig UK & Europe 1993 Island LP + Inner
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Tom Waits
The Black Rider
Very Rare Original UK & Europe LP released on Island Records in 1993. 1st pressing on the Dark blue Island label and comes complete with Printed card inner sleeve.
Barcode: 731451855917
Label Code: LC 0407
Rights Society (Boxed): BIEM STEMRA
Other (Distribution code): PY 281
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout etched): ILPS - 8021 - A-1
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout etched): ILPS 8021 B 1-
Tom Waits collaborated with director Robert Wilson and librettist William Burroughs on the musical stage work The Black Rider in 1990. A variation on the Faust legend, the 19th century German story allowed Waits to indulge his affection for the music of Kurt Weill and address one of his favourite topics of recent years, the devil. Waits had proven an excellent collaborator when he worked with director Francis Ford Coppola on One from the Heart, making that score an integral part of the film. Here, the collaboration and the established story line served to focus Waits' often fragmented attention, lending coherence and consistency. He then had three years to adapt the score into a record album in which he did most of the singing and writing (though Burroughs contributed, singing one song and writing lyrics to three), and he used the time to come up with his best recording in a decade, a varied set of songs that work whether or not you know the show. (Seven of the 20 tracks were instrumentals.) Waits used the word "crude" to describe his working method several times in the liner notes, and a crude performing and recording style continued to appeal to him. But the kind of chaos that can sometimes result from that style was reined in by the bands he assembled in Germany and Los Angeles to record the score, so that the recordings were lively without being off-puttingly primitive.
Track Listing
Side One
1 Lucky Day (Overture) 2:26
2 The Black Rider 3:20
3 November 2:50
4 Just The Right Bullets 3:35
5 Black Box Theme 2:45
6 'T' Ain't No Sin 2:35
7 Flash Pan Hunter (Intro) 1:11
8 That's The Way 1:11
9 The Briar And The Rose 3:50
10 Russian Dance 3:10
Side Two
1 Gospel Train (Orchestra) 2:35
2 I'll Shoot The Moon 3:50
3 Flash Pan Hunter 3:05
4 Crossroads 2:45
5 Gospel Train 4:40
6 Interlude 0:30
7 Oily Night 4:25
8 Lucky Day 3:45
9 The Last Rose Of Summer 2:10
10 Carnival 1:30
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Released on Island Records in 1993
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Catalogue Number ILPS 8021
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Record is in Ex ++ condition (couple of fine hairlines from the inner sleeve)
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Sleeve is in Ex + condition (tiny bit of damage on the spine and a split in the right edge of the inner sleeve, see pictures)
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