Drama of Exile
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Drama of Exile or The Drama of Exile are titles used to refer to two rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 albums by Nico
Nico
Nico was a German singer, lyricist, composer, musician, fashion model, and actress, who initially rose to fame as a Warhol Superstar in the 1960s...

 recorded in 1981
1981 in music
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. The first album was originally recorded in April and May. The second album is a re-recording of the first one, recorded in May. The album featured a Middle East
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ern rhythm section and was produced by Corsica
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n reggae
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 bassist Philippe Quilichini.

Genesis

After the release of The End in 1974, Nico's partnership with Island Records
Island Records
Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...

 ended and she spent the majority of her time in New York City
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, without a record deal, appearing in a series of Philippe Garrel
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 films.

She did, however, continue to write new songs and perform intermittently. "Purple Lips" featured in her solo sets as early as April 1975, and was also performed on French television that month and the lyrics of which were recited by Nico in the Philippe Garrel
Philippe Garrel
Philippe Garrel is a French director, cinematographer, screenwriter, editor and producer. His movies have won him awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival...

 film Le Berceau de Cristal (1976). The earliest recorded performance of "Genghis Khan" dates to August 6, 1975, with non-LP "Procession" and "Henry Hudson" featuring in set lists from February 1977.

By March 1978, with "The Sphinx" also introduced into her set, Nico had settled on the title Drama of Exile and resolved to try a new style at odds with her previous harmonium-based sound. Nico continued to write and by early 1981 had enough songs ready to record a new album.

Recording

The original album was plagued by suspicious circumstances. There are different versions of the story, and the truth remains ambiguous.

The two versions had slightly different personnel and instrumentation. A version of the original LP recordings was released in 1981 by Aura Records in the Netherlands
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 and Sweden
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 only, several months after the debacle with the masters. The re-make was held up for two years, and was finally released in 1983
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 by Invisible Records. The original version of the LP was released on CD for the first time in Germany
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 by Line Records
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 in 1988, in the United States
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 by Cleopatra Records
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 in 1993
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 and in England
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 by Great Expectations Records in 1989.

Track listing of original version

All tracks written by Nico except where noted.

Side one
  1. "Genghis Khan
    Genghis Khan
    Genghis Khan , born Temujin and occasionally known by his temple name Taizu , was the founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death....

    " – 3:52
  2. "Purple Lips" – 4:10
  3. "One More Chance" – 5:38
  4. "Henry Hudson
    Henry Hudson
    Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective Northeast Passage to Cathay via a route above the Arctic Circle...

    " – 3:54
  5. "I'm Waiting for the Man
    I'm Waiting for the Man
    "I'm Waiting for the Man" is a song by the American rock band The Velvet Underground, written by Lou Reed. It was first released on their 1967 debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico....

    " (Lou Reed
    Lou Reed
    Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...

    ) – 4:13

Side two
  1. "Sixty/Forty" – 4:50
  2. "The Sphinx" – 3:30
  3. "Orly
    Orly
    Orly is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.The name of Orly came from Latin Aureliacum, "the villa of Aurelius"....

     Flight" – 3:55
  4. "Heroes" (lyrics by David Bowie
    David Bowie
    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

    , music by Bowie and Brian Eno
    Brian Eno
    Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

    ) – 6:06

Personnel

  • Nico – vocals
  • Muhammad Hadi (Mad Sheer Khan) – lead guitar, fretless bouzouki
    Bouzouki
    The bouzouki , is a musical instrument with Greek origin in the lute family. A mainstay of modern Greek music, the front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with a plectrum and has a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but...

    , snitra, backing vocals, piano
  • Philippe Quilichini – bass, African percussions, rhythm guitar, synthesizer, backing vocals
  • Steve Cordona – drums
  • Davey Payne
    Davey Payne
    David 'Davey' Payne is an English saxophonist best known as a member of Ian Dury's backing band The Blockheads, and his twin saxophone solo on their 1978 UK #1 single "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"....

     – saxophones
  • Andy Clark
    Andy Clark (musician)
    Andrew Clark is an English rock composer and performer who is best known for his work on keyboards and synthesizer in the 1970s, playing and recording alongside Mick Hutchinson, in Clark Hutchinson, alongside Jeff Beck with his involvement in Upp and on the album Wired, and alongside guitarist...

     – organ, piano, synthesizer

Track listing of remake

All tracks written by Nico except where noted.
  1. "One More Chance" – 4:13
  2. "The Sphinx" – 4:00
  3. "Sãeta" – 3:40
  4. "Genghis Khan" – 3:34
  5. "Heroes" (lyrics by David Bowie
    David Bowie
    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

    , music by Bowie and Brian Eno
    Brian Eno
    Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

    ) – 5:41
  6. "Henry Hudson" – 3:46
  7. "60/40" – 4:35
  8. "Orly Flight" – 2:48
  9. "Vegas" – 3:30
  10. "I'm Waiting For the Man" (Lou Reed
    Lou Reed
    Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...

    ) – 4:14

Personnel

For the remake, the lineup was the same but without Davey Payne
Davey Payne
David 'Davey' Payne is an English saxophonist best known as a member of Ian Dury's backing band The Blockheads, and his twin saxophone solo on their 1978 UK #1 single "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"....

, and with additional help from:
  • J. J. Johnson
    J. J. Johnson (UK musician)
    J. J. Johnson is a British rock musician who began his career in the punk days of the 1970s. He worked as a drummer, percussionist and later keyboard player, singer/songwriter, producer, filmmaker...

     – percussion, trumpet
  • Thierry Matiozek – electric violin, backing vocals
  • Gary Barnacle
    Gary Barnacle
    Gary Barnacle is a saxophonist/flautist, brass instrument arranger, composer and producer, primarily noted for session work, live work Gary Barnacle (born 1959, Dover, England) is a saxophonist/flautist, brass instrument arranger, composer and producer, primarily noted for session work, live work...

    – saxophones, drums
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