Nico and The Marble Index: A Conversation with Danny Fields
David Dalton, Gadfly, 2002
WHEN THE MARBLE Index appeared in 1969 it seemed unplaceable, flying out of some timeless place, as if we were hearing from a possessed medieval abbess intoning her hermetic hymns to a harmonium. Songs so dense and hypnotic they haunted you for days.
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