Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found

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He bundled it in the towel she used to wipe her brow, wrapped that in a Tower Records bag, and proceeded to keep it with him for the next two decades. I didn’t want to get into it too deeply, but something exploded in the house when we were teenagers, and it was just irretrievable.

On the evening of 1 July 1999, the Australian musician and longtime Nick Cave collaborator Warren Ellis watched from the stalls as Nina Simone walked on to the stage of the Royal Festival Hall. The story it tells is of a man from his childhood thru to present time and how he values of small things as l do, a collector of trivial things but each one is special for a reason. müziğe nasıl başladığını, Yunan sanatçı Arleta ya da sonradan kendisinin en büyük işbirlikçilerinden biri olacak Nick Cave gibi yolunun kesiştiği birçok insanla olan ilişkisini kitap boyunca okuyoruz. Kuo labiau kitas apsinuogina, kuo labiau pasako, kad rūpi, kad skauda, kad neramu, tinkamas partneris – gyvenimo, draugystės, profesijos – gali ne tik suprasti, bet ir atliepti, papildyti emociją, ją įgalinti ir patvirtinti jos reikšmingumą, net jei pats norėtum numenkinti. About twenty years later the gum which Warren has kept in various locations (he really treasured it!Visiting shrines, hanging out with his family, just being so normal — an elevated person down on the same ground. Nina Simone’s Gum reveals how something seemingly insignificant and disposable can form beautiful connections between people. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Probably if you read the book you'll think that's not that weird either, it's just that kind of book. This is a magical book about a magical artifact that Ellis took for his own and kept secret and kept safe for many years, Nina Simone's Gum. The latter comes up during a project he embarks on in advance of donating the original gum to the museum: having it cast in metal, the better to retain a permanent monument lest something befall the thing itself. So when the editor asked me to review this book, it felt like the moment I’d been waiting for without knowing I was waiting, the time to share this small story of an artist I don’t know but appreciate a lot.On stage, his extravagantly expressive playing is something to behold, all flailing arms and furrowed brow, his bow held aloft like a matador’s sword before being drawn across the strings of his amped-up violin. Musician, composer, band member and obsessive collector of things, Warren Ellis, creates a loving community through a piece of gum chewed by Nina Simone at one of her last live concerts.

The pair have recently finished a soundtrack for Blonde, their friend Andrew Dominik’s much anticipated film about Marilyn Monroe, to be released next year.

My girlfriend thinks I'm a hoarder, but I collect and keep things that have this magical kind of powers about them and this book. 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. Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol's piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious artefact.

Fearing it would be damaged or lost, Ellis had it cast in silver and gold, sparking a chain of events that no one could have predicted, transporting him back to his childhood and his relationship to found objects. His first instrument was a Hofner piano accordion which he found as a child while playing on a local rubbish dump – “I stepped on it and heard it wheeze.

Basit gibi görünen şeylerin aynı zamanda nasıl derin olabileceğine inanıyorsanız kitabı sevmemeniz imkansız. Having picked up the titular piece of gum from the aftermath of a Nina Simone concert, the book is by turns poetic and blunt, revealing and mystifying, the book moves from Warren Ellis' childhood to the present day, touching upon his creative processes, and revealing more about the central drivers in his life. The outcome of this eclectic approach is a glorious testament to “the metaphysical made physical” and to art as not a product, not as a solitarily made end result, but rather as a practice and a community, as well as an occasion — or a self-perpetuating series of occasions — for contact and connection among an array of thoughtful people. That’s why the book was such an interesting read for me – on one level, it’s a metaphor for the creative process, but it’s also a deep insight into his inner life told through the obsession he has with the chewing gum.