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Mr H’s swan song, with the Icelandic quartet.
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Iceland's Amiina recently set to music what's said to be Lee Hazlewood's final recording, resulting in the previously posted "Hilli (At the Top of the World)". At first glimpse, the video might seem not to adapt Hazlewood's lyrics literally. Like a tough grandfather lovingly reading Dr. Seuss, Hazlewood intones, "At the top of the world, there's an island, a place where the sun never shines/ Bu...
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Realizing, depending on where you're standing, this could also be Lee Hazlewood featuring amiina. Regardless, it's a gorgeous, cooing spoken dream piece about a a sunless island, a volcano, snow eating, and some girl with a gift, wandering. When those horns from amiina's rise behind Hazlewood's gruff sleepytime tale? We keep thinking of the Grinch mashing up with Sigur Ró.. that narration and s...
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Posthumous duets are almost always a bad idea, which makes this release by the late Lee Hazlewood, out in December, even more remarkable. A collaboration with Iceland’s Amiina (they shared the same manager), it was recorded only a few weeks before he died in July, and debuted at his memorial service. In his cracked, leathery voice, Hazlewood tells a fairytale about an island where the snow tast...
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