A Piece of Nina Simone’s Chewing Gum Changed Warren Ellis’s Life. He Wrote a Book About It

Multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis (he can play eight, including violin, flute, piano, accordion—“I’ll have a shot at anything except brass”) is a longtime collaborator with indefatigable brother-in-arms Nick Cave of the Bad Seeds. Over the course of the past decade, the two have put out eight wrenching, melancholic movie soundtracks, multiple studio albums (Carnage was number five on MOJO magazine’s “75 Best Albums of 2021”), and numerous side projects, including two full-length documentaries (the latest, This Much I Know to Be True, will be released in theaters in May). If all this wasn’t enough, Ellis has just published his first book,… Read Full Article