Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found

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Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found

Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found

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And then she said it would make a good connections text if the theme was how fame inspires people do weird things. a sequence involving otherworldly clowns; a journey through Europe that never really ends – but they’re there to provide a human context to the work’s titular gum. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. simone <3 and i love you warren ellis for loving her and making it seem somehow an abstract observation on love overall and the mystical victory of feeling over and over again. A] beautiful, strikingly idiosyncratic book - part memoir, part essay, part conceptual art project, all testament to humans at their strangest and best .

As he does so, he weaves in ardent anecdotes about artists he’s admired, including the Greek musician Arleta, the jazz composer Alice Coltrane, and the poet Emily Dickinson. I sort of expected it to be some manic fan's undying devotion but it was actually very peaceful and respectful, like people hushing when someone important starts talking.

And there are definitely people who would go to an exhibition that had Bowie's gum or Nick Cave's gum or Nina's gum. The pair have created hauntingly atmospheric scores for a dozen movies, including The Proposition (2005), The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford (2007), The Road (2009) and Lawless (2012).

In 1999, four years before her death at age 70, Eunice Kathleen Waymon — better known as Nina Simone — gave a performance at the Nick Cave–curated Meltdown Festival in London. Nick Cave provides an introduction, written on the occasion of the installation of the gum in the Hallway of Gratitude, part of his Stranger Than Kindness exhibition at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, commemorating the moment when “the chief conservator places the little piece of grey gum on the plinth.It’s about true wonder, the sort that children have before they get too old – a love for the mysteries of the world, for things that seem useless to adults but which have a hidden power, invisible to anyone in double digits. It sort of reminded me of Patti Smith's books a little (I know I said this about The Sick Bag Song too, but I'm not just trying to relate everything to Patti Smith I promise), not just because of the hero worship but because of the guardianship of things that the author's personal icons used to own. It is in the recording studio, however, that the dynamic between the two has transformed Cave’s music of late.

I wanted that magic of the story of Nina Simone's Gum and it's impact on the author and every one who came into contact with this silly little artifact. The universe will guide you and these objects of intense meaning into your life and sometimes they are for you, and sometimes they are for the world. There’s some kind of power connecting the players in the book, and it’s quite charming to see that Cave – ol’ man grump himself! Although by that late date Simone was unwell and in considerable physical and mental pain, Ellis documents the way she was buoyed by the audience’s “screams and adulation,” and how she began “tapping into the genius that had defined her all her life,” ultimately “[s]ummoning herself to her own rescue.For a few decades now, I’ve been a fan, catching Dirty Three shows whenever I’m able – they’re much less common now, but just as essential – and part of the joy of those gigs is the fact that a bunch of their runtime is spent listening to Ellis introduce tunes in a rambling manner that involves drugs, God, soap, Elliott Gould and being real fuckin’ bummed about death. Everybody who learned the origin of Warren's silver pendant version of Nina Simone's gum either venerated it as a holy relic or recoiled as if it carried some unseen power,.

From the eponymous gum, Ellis radiates backward and forward in time, including saturated detail from his imaginative childhood, charting the development of his superstitious nature and somewhat mystical way of looking at the world, which persists to this day.Warren Ellis is one of the most distinguished musicians in today's music and his colab with Nick Cave is just amazing. Nina Simone'un sakızı üzerinden eşyalara, yaratıcılığa, tutkuya, takıntılara ve hayata dair çok şey anlatıyor.



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