Universal Music Australia John Cale Fragments Of A Rainy Season Cd

John Cale will re-issue the classic live album Fragments of a Rainy Season, featuring his revered interpretation of Leonard Cohen s Hallelujah amongst many solo versions from his enduring catalogue and previously unreleased outtakes, on December 9th 2016 through Double Six / Domino.

Fragments of a Rainy Season is the the first live John Cale album to feature him performing solo and "unplugged" before that term became a mid-'90s buzzword.

In contrast to the jaundiced punk truculence of Sabotage/Live (1979) or Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1986), Fragments gives us Cale at his most melodic and moving, a mellowed and certainly a soberer man in a Yamamoto jacket and a lopsided haircut running through a selection of his prettiest songs.

It's a Cale many of us love deeply, a man alone at a concert-hall Steinway revisiting the pop-rock of 'Paris 1919' and 'A Child's Christmas in Wales', as wistful and whimsical as any '70s singer-songwriter holding court at L.A.'s Troubadour club.

On Fragments of a Rainy Season fragments of pain from a long and sometimes mystifying career the rain comes down in buckets.