Vuelo Químico

Vuelo Químico

Vuelo Químico
(Edgar Allan Poe, Michel Huygen)

The skies they were ashen and sober;
  The leaves they were crisped and sere —
  The leaves they were withering in sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
  Of my most immemorial year;
It was hard by the dim lake of Auber,
  In the misty mid region of Weir —
It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,
  In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.

And we passed to the end of the vista,
  But we were stopped by the door of a tomb —
  By the door of a legended tomb;
And I said: "What is written, sweet sister,
  On the door of this legended tomb ?"

Etait-ce un mirage,
Ou était-ce le visage de la mort ?

Then my heart it grew ashen and sober
  As the leaves, that were crisped and sere —
  As the leaves that were withering and sere,
And I cried: "It was surely October
   On this very night of last year
  That I brought a dread burden down here —
  That I journeyed — I journeyed down here —
  On this night of all nights in the year,
  Ah, what demon has tempted me here ?
Well I know, now, this dim lake of Auber —
  This misty mid region of Weir —
Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber,
  This ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir."

Vuelo Químico ES LP Harvest 10C 064-021.523
ES LP Harvest 10C 064-021.523
1978-00-00
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Recorded EMI-Odeon S.A. Studios, Via Augusta 2 bis, Barcelona, 1978-09-04—07.
Sound engineer: Juan José Moreno

Nico recites excerpts from Ulalume — a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
This poem was first published in Colton's "American Review" for December, 1847, as To - Ulalume: a Ballad.

Nico: narrator
Michel Huygen: Korg polyphonic synthesizer, Roland synthesizer, Brassman synthesizer, MiniMoog D synthesizer, Elka Rhapsody 610, DUY multiple sequencer, DUY selectron, DUY audio-generator, Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar treatments, graphical equalizer, vocals
Albert Giménez: Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar, Epiphone acoustic 12-string guitar, DUY audio-generator, DUY frequency modular alternator
Carlos Guirao: Logan String Orchestra 2, DUY Quasar Alpha project synthesizer-computer, Elka-solist synthesizer, Epiphone acoustic guitar, graphical equalizer, vocals
José Amado: oriental percussion sounds
A. Doménech: arrangement and conduction of the choir

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