Lou Salome

Born in Russia in 1861, Lou Andreas-Salome is remembered for her friendships with the great thinkers of her day. As well as being a poet, author, narrator and essayist, Salome was the first female psychoanalyst, and muse to Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Ree, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Sigmund Freud. In 2022, Italian author and journalist Stefano Santachiara approached Fall in Green, Deborah Edgeley and Mark Sheeky, to create a performance adaptation of his biographical play Loving Lou Salome. The result was Lou Salome Empathy With Daisies, a performance of poetry and music, augmented with props and video projection. The premiere took place in the presence of the author in Congleton Library, Cheshire, on the 3rd of August 2022. The album version was recorded shortly after and released digitally and on CD on the 2nd of December 2022.

This beautiful book contains the words and piano music of this performance. This is the first book by Fall in Green, and includes new, full-colour illustrations. The music, rendered in 450dpi for supreme clarity, contains the words correctly placed in the music as performed by Deborah Edgeley, rather than per-note as in normal song lyrics. The words are separately printed as poems too, to create an art book of poetry and music to treasure.