Nina Simone | Pastel Blues | Album

Nina Simone "Pastel Blues"

LP (NEW) - Vinyl, Phillips, Europe, 2016, 600753605714, 180g Vinyl, Reissue, Incl. Digital Download

Nina Simone’s 1965 masterpiece Pastel Blues is a raw, minimalist, and emotionally heavy tour de force that captures the High Priestess of Soul at the absolute absolute peak of her musical and political powers. Moving away from the lush, sometimes over-orchestrated lounge arrangements of her earlier records, this album strips the music down to its bare essentials—primarily Simone's striking piano and her fierce, haunting contralto vocals. Critics and fans celebrate it as an essential 1960s document that flawlessly bridges the sacred and the profane, using the blues not just as a musical genre, but as a vehicle for raw human feeling and civil rights protest.

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