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Raven, The (Import) (CD)

By: Lou Reed

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Raven, The (Import) (CD) Album By Lou Reed
1   Overture  
2   Edgar Allen Poe  
3   Call On Me - Reed, Lou & Laurie Anderson  
4   Valley Of Unrest (spoken track)  
5   Thousand Departed Friends (instrumental)  
6   Change  
7   Bed  
8   Perfect Day  
9   Raven (spoken track) - Reed, Lou & Willem Dafoe  
10   Balloon  
11   Broadway Song - Reed, Lou & Steve Buscemi  
12   Blind Rage  
13   Burning Embers  
14   Vanishing Act  
15   Guilty - Reed, Lou & Ornette Coleman  
16   I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendulum) - Reed, Lou & The Blind Boys Of Alabama  
17   Science Of The Mind  
18   Hop Frog - Reed, Lou & David Bowie  
19   Tripitena's Speech (spoken track)  
20   Who I Am (Tripitena's Song)  
21   Guardian Angel  
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (2/6/03, p.62) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...The reality here is that Reed has once again stretched the boundaries of popular music and, in doing so, has honored Edgar Allan Poe's illustrious legacy, along with his own..."
The Wire (1/03, p.60) - "...His songs, interspersed with dramatic dialogues and poetic recitations over hollowly atmospheric effects, are more a phantasmagorical patchwork of Poe and Reed, an act of violent reanimation....THE RAVEN is a rewarding and self-consciously motley fest..."

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Lou Reed's THE RAVEN is based on and inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe story of the same name. This single CD features highlights from the complete 2-CD set also titled THE RAVEN.
Personnel includes: Lou Reed (vocals, guitar, bass, electronics); Laurie Anderson, Antony, David Bowie, Steve Buscemi, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Kate & Anna McGarrigle (vocals); Elizabeth Ashley, Willem Dafoe, Amanda Plummer, (spoken vocals); Mike Rathke (guitar); Friedrich Paravinci (cello, piano, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards); Jane Scarpantoni (cello); Paul Shapiro (alto, tenor & baritone saxophones); Ornette Coleman (alto saxophone); Doug Wiselman (tenor & baritone saxophones); Steve Bernstein (trumpet); Fernando Saunders (bass, background vocals); Tony Smith (drums, background vocals).
Recorded at Sear Sound Studio, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Lou Reed.

Album Description

Lou Reed's epic homage to the work of gothic horror writer Edgar Allen Poe is a sprawling collection of music and poetry, featuring spoken word passages performed by such renowned actors as Willem Dafoe, Steve Buscemi and Amanda Plummer, and contributions from the likes of David Bowie, Laurie Anderson and Ornette Coleman. Dark and sinister, Reed has attempted to replicate the mood of Poe's work in the music.

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