Comes in a beautifully detailed 6-panel eco-wallet, with artwork by Norwegian designer & photographer Merethe Holtet and American animator Bill Plympton.
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Rabben Records proudly presents it's debut release of Mark Steiner & His Problems new album "Saudade." This beautiful deluxe limited edition of only 200 copies comes in DOUBLE 12 inch 180 gram vinyl format, featuring 13 songs performed by Mark Steiner and his international band of brothers and sisters, produced by Henry Hugo and Mark Steiner, recorded at Stagger Home Studios & Booking / Studio Schaeffers Gate 5 in Oslo, Norway, with additional recordings made in Europe, New York, and Australia. Special guests include Sally Norvell (Congo Norvell), Mick Harvey (The Birthday Party, PJ Harvey, ex-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds), Paul Wallfisch (Botanica, Firewater, Ministry of Wolves), Emil Nikolaisen (Serena Maneesh) and more.
Includes unlimited streaming of Saudade
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Celile and I dtarted doing this song as a duet some years back. This song almost didn't make it to the final cut of the album. Then Lou Reed had to do something so rash like suddenly pass into the next world. Never met the man. If I had, I doubt that I would have had much to say to him, if anything it all. Perhaps just a nod? How else does one pay tribute to the "College Professor of Rock" (Thanks for that, Rowly;)
lyrics
VENUS IN FURS
(lyrics by Lou Reed)
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girlchild in the dark
Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
Downy sins of streetlight fancies
Chase the costumes she shall wear
Ermine furs adorn the imperious
Severin, Severin awaits you there
I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears
Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather
Shiny leather in the dark
Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
Severin, Severin, speak so slightly
Severin, down on your bended knee
Taste the whip, in love not given lightly
Taste the whip, now plead for me
I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girlchild in the dark
Severin, your servant comes in bells, please don't forsake him
from Saudade,
released November 6, 2014
VENUS IN FURS (featuring Celile Stille)
(lyrics & music by Lou Reed • Oakfield Avenue Music Ltd. / EMI)
Thomas Borge: bass
Pavel Cingl: violin
Celile Güzelce: vocals
Henry Hugo: electric guitar, celesta
Tobias Lange: drums
Mark Steiner: vocals, baritone guitar
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