All I have seen the gum do is bring out love and care in the people who have come in contact with it,” Ellis tells me, sounding quite emotional. It was his mastery of Orange Blossom Special, learned from a tape of The Johnny Cash Show, that won him a music scholarship to attend a local private school. Warren Ellis is one of the most distinguished musicians in today's music and his colab with Nick Cave is just amazing.

At some point they're setting up the plinth for the gum and Nick stuck a bit of his gum on it as a model.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This book was a beautiful reminder of why we collect these items and of the magic they can hold within them. Indeed, one of the key ideas of the book is about the way friendships are deepened by things – empty bottles, old VHS tapes, fading pictures, scraps of paper – that often are lost, but which exercise a power even in their absence. simone <3 and i love you warren ellis for loving her and making it seem somehow an abstract observation on love overall and the mystical victory of feeling over and over again.

A] beautiful, strikingly idiosyncratic book - part memoir, part essay, part conceptual art project, all testament to humans at their strangest and best . Nina Simone's Gum] is a metaphor for [Ellis'] creativity - the blossoming of a small idea into something bigger and bolder - but also a journey inside the impulsive, improvisatory mind of Warren Ellis, his passions, obsessions and superstitions. The universe will guide you and these objects of intense meaning into your life and sometimes they are for you, and sometimes they are for the world. Simone sahneden indikten sonra da Warren Ellis gidip sakızı yine Simone'un terini sildiği ve piyanonun üstünde bıraktığı havlunun arasına alarak çantasına atar.More recently, Ellis has become a soundtrack composer much in demand, working either alone or with Cave.

As she played, you could see she was becoming energised by the music,” he says, “It was one of those rare events after which nobody was going to leave the same as they walked in. kad Warrenas – ypatingas, kažkoks truputį pusdievis, neabejotinai ir truputį išprotėjęs genijus, galintis prakalbinti bet kurį instrumentą, bet ši knyga įrodo, kad jis dar ir traukia panašius į save – jautrius ir ypatingus, galinčius suprasti, kuo dviejų dešimtmečių senumo gumos gabaliukas yra vertas ne menkesnės pagarbos, nei koks Monet originalas. The pair have created hauntingly atmospheric scores for a dozen movies, including The Proposition (2005), The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford (2007), The Road (2009) and Lawless (2012). Marvel as Ellis’ collection of eccentric personal mementos morphs into a celebration of the intangible wonder of music.OCH det fina i hur ett litet ting som ett tuggummi kan skapa sådana känslor hos alla som är i närheten av det. Some of those things, other than the gum, are shared here in a beautiful, simple, yet profound manner. In 1999, four years before her death at age 70, Eunice Kathleen Waymon — better known as Nina Simone — gave a performance at the Nick Cave–curated Meltdown Festival in London.