Nico - The Fairest of the Seasons

Nico supposedly despised the strings and flute work on her first solo album, but I think that all the instrumentation enhanced the work. I don't play strings, so I thought I'd try my hand at arranging a recorder trio accompaniment.

Nico went on to make music unlike anything in pop music before or since. Frozen Warnings and Afraid are simply breathtaking. But her folk-pop album with Jackson Browne and John Cale is soothing on a cloudy day.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Mark
• Zelesky
• Wurlitzer
• electric
• piano
• cover
• recorder
• trio
• acoustic
• classical
• male
• version

[SuperMouthwash]

I think you are on the road to discovering a very fine interpretation of this song here. It is much more musicianly than Nico's reading, but that could be a direction worth exploring.

Nico's own intonation is not always perfect (she was deaf of one ear) - and this is a challenging piece to hit square every time.

You clearly love the song, and have your own style of doing it: those are the important qualities for any performance.

[raiden235]

Thank you for your kind words. If nothing else, putting songs on YouTube gives me an excuse to arrange songs and get some experience with live performance, which is, by its nature, imperfect. Ideally, I'll start having some live performances (in front of an audience) soon. That's what this is all building towards.

[GrouchoHandjob]

go for it - I know Nico would be happy you sing her songs

I know

[raiden235]

I just want to say thanks for this comment. I love singing Nico's music.

[cisco1225]

This is amazing. One of my favorite songs ever. Do you have any sheets transcribed for this?? I'd love to learn this song.

[raiden235]

If you just do a Google search for "fairest of the seasons tab" you should find a pretty good transcription. I took the original Jackson Browne guitar part for inspiration, but I tried to give it a Wurlitzer update.

[jubah]

such a beautiful feeling... I'm touched by your sincerity when you sing (does that make sense in english?). Thank you for sharing.

[TurboVW2004]

This video also pleasantly surprised me. Chi-town represent!

[jayr102]

This video pleasantly surprised me :)

[SlamJaw]

Really good job. I love this album and Desertshore. Chelsea Girl is the perfect autumn album, and it's almost hard to listen to because it has such a nostalgic feeling to me. Enough rambling though, this is a great cover.

[AyuIsSex]

This is really pretty. Good cover, Nico would be content.

[bumblebert]

lovely.

[pipy05]

First heard this on the Royal Tenenbaulms i like how you sang it

[RockinTheSuburbs123]

this is very good!