Nina Gordon
Nina Rachel Gordon Shapiro (born November 14, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter. She's perhaps best known for being vocalist and guitarist of alternative rock band Veruca Salt, co-founded by her in Chicago, Illinois in 1993 alongside Louise Post. She left the band in 1998 due to creative differences, pursuing a solo career and releasing two albums, Tonight and the Rest of My Life (2000) and Bleeding Heart Graffiti (2006). As of 2013, Gordon is back in Veruca Salt.
With Veruca Salt
Veruca Salt was formed alongside the friendship of Gordon and Louise Post. Introduced by Gordon's good friend, actress Lili Taylor, Gordon and Post quickly bonded and began playing music together. Originally, the band was an Indigo Girls-inspired acoustic act, but the women soon realized that this wasn't their sound. They enlisted bass player Steve Lack and Gordon's brother, Jim Shapiro, a guitarist who joined as the band's drummer as a favor to his sister.
Veruca Salt released a self-funded demo tape and shopped it to labels while playing a handful of small club shows. The buzz around the band grew furiously, and after only a few live gigs, the band was signed to Minty Fresh Records and began recording with producer Brad Wood who had recently worked on Liz Phair's critically acclaimed Exile in Guyville.
Reik (album)
Reik is the debut eponymous album from Mexican pop group Reik, released on May 24, 2005 through Sony Music. The album features the singles "Yo Quisiera", "Qué Vida La Mía", "Noviembre Sin Ti", "Niña" and "Levemente". The song "Noviembre Sin Ti" is also featured on the compilation album Now Esto Es Musica! Latino, while "Levemente" is featured on Now Esto Es Musica! Latino 2.
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Production credits
Nina (opera)
Nina, o sia La pazza per amore (Nina, or the Girl Driven Mad by Love) is an opera, described as a commedia in prosa ed in verso per musica, in two acts by Giovanni Paisiello to an Italian libretto by Giambattista (also Giovanni Battista) Lorenzi after Giuseppe Carpani's translation of Benoît-Joseph Marsollier's Nina, ou La folle par amour, set by Nicolas Dalayrac in 1786.
The work is a sentimental comedy with set numbers, recitative and spoken dialog. It is set in Italy in the 18th century.
Nina was first performed in a one act version at the Teatro del Reale Sito di Belvedere in Caserta, San Leucio on 25 June 1789. A revised two-act work was presented at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples in the autumn of 1790.
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Discography
Nina (Xiu Xiu album)
Nina is a Nina Simone tribute album recorded by Xiu Xiu. It was released on Graveface Records on December 3, 2013 to generally favorable reviews.
Recording
The idea for the album came while Jamie Stewart was on tour with Swans.Nina was recorded in a day. The album features Jamie Stewart's voice, Ches Smith on drums, Tim Berne and Tony Malaby on saxophones, Andrea Parkins on accordion, and Mary Halvorson on guitar. The latter four had experience in avant jazz. The album reimagines rather than recreates Nina Simone's songs. It was released on Graveface Records on December 3, 2013.
Reception
Nina received a "generally favorable" score of 65 (out of 100) from the ratings aggregator Metacritic. Nate Chinen from The New York Times described the album as accentuating Simone's "spooky, unsettling side". He adds that Stewart's vocals add to the "psychodrama" in "Four Women" and "the wildness" in "Wild Is the Wild". Chinen thought the art rock Nina Simone covers field was already crowded before Nina. Heather Phares of AllMusic considered Stewart's stylistic choices "provocative" and the album Stewart's "most avant-garde ... in years". She added that the album considered the "more progressive aspects" of Simone's music. Kyle Fowle of Slant Magazine thought the album to be Xiu Xiu's "most ambitious ... in years". He thought Stewart's vocal style was out of place on "Don't Explain" and "Just Say I Love Him". Billy Hamilton of Under the Radar wrote that Simone would approve of the album. Mark Richardson of Pitchfork noted a mystical connection between Xiu Xiu and Simone as artists who perform raw emotions, but described the album as a "wasted opportunity" and "weirdly conservative". For this, he blamed Stewart's vocals for being "theatrical" and insincere. Richardson praised the album's selection of songs covered.
'Nina Gordon' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Dance Little Lady (1954)
Actors: Alexander Gauge (actor), William Kendall (actor), Harold Lang (actor), Terence Morgan (actor), Richard O'Sullivan (actor), David Poole (actor), Guy Rolfe (actor), Jane Aird (actress), Jane Asher (actress), Joan Benham (actress), Vera Day (actress), Ina De La Haye (actress), Lisa Gastoni (actress), Eunice Gayson (actress), Reginald Beckwith (actor),
Genres: Drama,Gordon, Nina Filmography
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2011, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2011, role: composer
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2006, role: actress , character name: Los Angeles Judge
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1998, role: actress , character name: Louise
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1997, role: actress , character name: Herself
Podcasts:
Nina Gordon
ALBUMS
- Bleeding Heart Graffiti released: 2006
- Tonight and the Rest of My Life released: 2000
Got Me Down
and this is the way it's going to be i gave him
away and now i'm free but he was the life i
meant to lead there's nothing left of me but this
is my melody and why must the night crawl by
like this and why do we dwell on what we'll miss
i've got to be careful what i wish my happiness
was his but this is my goodbye kiss he got me
down and now i'm only singing for my health got
me down and now i can't get up myself got me
down turn around and tell me when it's over and
it's time for me to get up off the ground and
there's really nothing left to say but this couldn't
wait another day 'cause something confusing
but o.k. has got me in its sway and this is my
getaway and though i try to hear you now i think
we've built a wall of sound between us and
though you know i love you still i think we've