Nico & The Faction - Fata Morgana - New Vinyl 2017 Tidal Waves Record Store Day 2-LP Limited Edition of 2000 - Alt-Rock / Avant Garde

This album documents Nico’s last ever performance held on June 6, 1988 in West Berlin as part of the European Capital of Culture festival that year. Except for the album’s closing song (which was previously released on The End…), Nico and her backing band ‘The Faction’ composed all the pieces specifically for the show. As the title of the album indicates, the concert was Nico’s last, and the material on the album is among the last she (co-)wrote. Six weeks later, on July 18, she died while on vacation in Ibiza. This is a stunning album. The last stand of an exceptional artist, shortly before her untimely tragic death, who lived an exceptional life overshadowed by a 15 year struggle with heroin addiction.