who encouraged Nico to take up the harmonium, the pedal-powered keyboard instrument whose wheezing drones would subsequently underpin all her future work, and which furnished a suitably haunting ...

Disc two?the 14-track Live At Chelsea Town Hall 9.8.85?captures Nico's doom-laden vocals overlaying her trademark harmonium, and includes an extended version of her former lover Jim Morrison's ...

The tom rhythms and piano clambering down the staircase are charmingly rickety and ideal for Nico to sing and perform over with her harmonium in supporting role. ‘My Heart Is Empty’ is also striking, ...