Nick Cave, portrait of a stainless rocker

2023-09-26T04:21:53.059Z

Highlights: Nick Cave, portrait of a stainless rocker. The Australian has not given interviews since the accidental death of one of his children in 2015 that devastated him. A fascinating book of exchanges with his friend and accomplice Seán O'Hagan* retraces the extraordinary career of this electric troubadour with music and texts. It's a vaguely disturbing silhouette, like that of the Reverend Harry Powell played by Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter. There is soul preacher in the Australian rocker capable of captivating concert halls and leading his audience, for hours, in sarabandes of mystical convulsions.

The Australian has not given interviews since the accidental death of one of his children in 2015 that devastated him. A fascinating book of exchanges with his friend and accomplice Seán O'Hagan* retraces the extraordinary career of this electric troubadour with music and texts...

It's a vaguely disturbing silhouette, like that of the Reverend Harry Powell played by Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter, but the comparison stops there: the overactive singer-songwriter Nick Cave offers an emaciated face and a slender body wrapped in tailor-made costumes that give him the air of a bounty hunter fashioned undertaker by some fabric sculptors of Jermyn Street.

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There is soul preacher in the Australian rocker capable of captivating concert halls and leading his audience, for hours, in sarabandes of mystical convulsions. Nick Cave or the funeral incantation on the rocks, splinters of guitars, heart rate of the bass mixed with that of the drums, which comes to cover his baritone voice of smoky saloons. Solitary minstrel kneeling in the ditches to contemplate "the black sun as silent as the moon".

Constantly torn between the rational and the sensitive to...

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