(2020) Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer-Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace


Review:
Nick Cave’s Idiot Prayer virtual concert will enjoy a second life as an album release and cinematic experience. The Australian alternative rock icon’s solo show at Alexandra Palace will be issued as a 22-track double album, from Nov. 20. For the special performance, Cave played a stripped-back set at the piano, returning to early Bad Seeds works, and more recent songs from his Grinderman project and the Australian Music Prize-nominated Ghosteen album. Reflecting on recent months, Cave says the silence of the lockdown sparked “the idea of not only recording the songs, but also filming them.” On June 19, he recounts, “surrounded by Covid officers with tape measures and thermometers, masked-up gaffers and camera operators, nervous looking technicians and buckets of hand gel, we created something very strange and very beautiful that spoke into this uncertain time, but was in no way bowed by it.” Cave continues, “This is the album taken from that film. It is a prayer into the void – alone at Alexandra Palace – a souvenir from a strange and precarious moment in history. I hope you enjoy it.” Recorded in Ally Pally’s cavernous West Hall during the lockdown, Cave’s set was captured on film by cinematographer Robbie Ryan, edited by Nick Emerson, and the audio was recorded by Dom Monks.





Tracklist:
01 - Spinning Song
02 - Idiot Prayer
03 - Sad Waters
04 - Brompton Oratory
05 - Palaces of Montezuma
06 - Girl in Amber
07 - Man in the Moon
08 - Nobody's Baby Now
09 - (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For
10 - Waiting for You
11 - The Mercy Seat
12 - Euthanasia
13 - Jubilee Street
14 - Far from Me
15 - He Wants You
16 - Higgs Boson Blues
17 - Stranger Than Kindness
18 - Into My Arms
19 - The Ship Song
20 - Papa Won't Leave You, Henry
21 - Black Hair
22 - Galleon Ship


Media Report:
Genre: chamber pop
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits