Nina Simone: Fodder on My Wings

Description

The sonic banquet of “Fodder on My Wings” reflects the rest of the album, of which all but one song is composed by Simone. It’s as if she poured every musical idea or influence from the past 10 years—as well as all her grief, joy, and rage—into these 13songs. She plays simple, moving chants in French; recalls the fond memories and infectious sounds of her life in Liberia on “Liberian Calypso”; and transforms Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Alone Again (Naturally)” into a chilling, condensed history of her relationship with her father.