Marianne Faithfull: the “Burning Moonlight” EP is released

A few weeks after Marianne Faithfull’s disappearance, the publication of a posthumous EP has been announced. The disc, which will include four songs, is titled “Burning Moonlight” and will be available digitally from next June 6th.

The EP will contain songs recorded by the musician, who passed away last January 30 at the age of 78, in the year prior to his death. “Burning Moonlight” had to be initially announced in February as part of the list of the Day 2025 record store, but the announcement was postponed due to the disappearance of Faithfull. Now, with the blessing of the singer’s family, Decca Records has shared the news as “celebration of life and music” by Marianne Faithfull.

While the vinyl of the EP will be released from 12 April in a limited edition, before the exit digitally, as anticipation of the disc, was made available today – March 14 – the title track:

“The moment we cry Marianne’s loss, we are happy to announce the publication of these songs on which she worked in the year before her death,” said her son Nicholas Dunbar in a note taken up by Nme: “Marianne lived to create music and play: it was her driving force and never stopped. Until the end, she did not see the time of this audience, which is now complete and celebrates its extraordinary. artistic career “.

“It’s a good time to look back,” said Marianne Faithfull after completing the project: “It helps me to remember all the things I did. I can’t say I am a particularly nostalgic person, but I am enjoying this period of reflection”.

“Burning Moonlight” represents two sides of the repertoire of Marianne Faithfull and in particular they reconnect to the beginning of the singer -songwriter in 1965, when he publishes two records, the eponymous album of more pop and “Come My Way”, more folk. Each side of the album is referred to these two souls. In the first facade there is the title track, inspired by the opening verses of “As Tears Go by”, together with “Love Is”. While in the other there are “Three Kinsmen Bold”, a traditional song that Faithfull learned from his father Glynn, and a new interpretation of “She Moved Thru ‘The Fair”, which the musician recorded for the first time in 1966.