The Velvet Underground - Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground featuring NicoFirst pressing, 1971, glossy sleeve VG+ VG

Richard Jobson

Tainted Lunch was recorded in just four days

and while playing 200+ gigs a year

and ultimately

and Ivan 'Mamao' Conti

And the music has kept relevant

Sometimes it’s almost jazz

the latter of whom also did pre-production arrangement work with the band

he connected his street language to subjects as violence

listen to Yen Ara and you will not only hear the high-energy afrobeat

even five years after its initial release

This feeling of being lifted by the community is reflected in ‘Ôg’ a story about a woman from Ushant whose husband went to work at sea (the oil tanker Betelgeuse) while she was 8 months pregnant