In the darkness of Germany, while her family lay fast asleep, Sibylle Baier would record on her reel-to-reel in the secrets of her room. And between 1970-1973 she had recorded the songs that would be released on this year's Colour Green . Gorgeous glimpses into the real world of Baier's life, the listener establishes, rather quickly, a personal connection and sense of comfort. Coos of lullabies that teeter the line of felicity and sorrow. An intimate revealing as you look through someone else's eyes, as you look through her eyes, to unlock a world [...]
PAR ORDRE ALPHABETIQUE SIBYLLE BAIER : Colour Green Le folk d'une âme solitaire enregistré entre 1970 et 1973, au retour d'un voyage salvateur entre Strasbourg et Gènes, fait surface aujourd'hui. Ecouter "Tonight" / Site / Acheter BORIS : Pink Avec Pink et Altar, Boris est, on l'aura compris, le groupe de cette année 2006 - en plus d'être "le plus beau des combos de Tokyo" ainsi que l'a décrit Chronic'art. Ecouter "Pink" / Blog Boris Rocks !!! /Acheter COLLEEN : Colleen et les boîtes à musiques (...)
Last year we had Gary Higgins' Red Hash , while this year Colour Green was released after thirty years in relative obscurity. I was fortunate enough to get exposed to Gary Higgins last year while taking photographs for Splendid Magazine , catching his first show in 30+ years at Tonic. Red Hash is a devastatingly beautiful collection of songs recorded at a time when Higgins may have felt that this may be his last chance at capturing his feelings in his music. Like Red Hash , [...]
This isn't what I expected at the beginning of 2006 either. But isn't it wonderful when music surprises you? And I think it says something (and I don't want to draw any hasty conclusions) that my top two are five-track song cycles. Other than that, no trends to speak of. Just good music, I hope. I rearranged the furniture til the last minute, which unfortunately required some additional writing. So if everything isn't perfectly feng shuied, rest assured that I'll sweep through later and straighten the furniture. [...]
5. Sibylle Baier - Color Green (Orange Twin) (buy it) Y'all can quibble over whether this is a reissue or merely a lucky unearthing (Baier's only real, official release was a song in a Wim Wenders film - these recordings were apparently only heard by a lucky few friends and family), but these early-70s songs by Baier, recorded in her home in Germany on reel-to-reel, are gracefully simple,
Out of the Attic Sibylle Baier made a haunting set of folk songs in Germany in the early 1970s. Never released, the tapes were dug out of a box by her son and have just been released by a little record label/commune in Athens, Georgia. Walking, or perhaps limping along, that fine line between melancholy and crushingly depressed, her music is perhaps best listened to in daylight, in public, and sober. Colour Green Buy Sibylle Baier at Amazon
Are you guys tired of lists yet? Okay cool, I didn't think so. This list isn't really a list of the "top" reissues/comps of the year, because there are way too many that I haven't heard, and probably a bunch I don't even know exist. Namely, this What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves (1967-1977) that the Drunkard talks about today. I'm really doing this because this is some of the most exciting and mindblowing stuff I heard all year, and I'd hate for it go overlooked. Think of this more [...]
Listen to Podcast #20: Betty's "Serenades with Ghosts and Strings." Like what you hear?? Subscribe HERE! Bunch of Bettys #20: Betty's "Serenades with Ghosts and Strings." (RIGHT-CLICK TO DOWNLOAD ENTIRE PODCAST) I offer you another selection of lovely, lonely songs featuring female vocalists. A bit late for the Halloween season, but perfect for these damp, dark autumn nights. All songs feature a string section in one way or another. Haunting and [...]
Some albums truly exemplify the term lost gem. Their lack of acclaim notwithstanding, its their lack of availability in their original pressing that's sometimes heartbreaking. With the widespread popularity of folk and the relatively inexpensive ability of anyone to acquire an acoustic guitar easily; it seemed that everyone was a bedroom folk singer in the 60's. Many that fell by the wayside probably fell for a reason but a few folk singers crafted fragile beautiful testaments to be lost almost forever. Some of the most heartfelt of the genre belong to a certain breed of maudlin female singers with angelic [...]
6 Cardinal Colors: Green Booker T. and the MGs, Green Onions (live). Larry Clinton, A Study in Green. Can, I'm So Green. Hildegard von Bingen, O Viridissima Virga. Vera Lynn, How Green Was My Valley. R.E.M., Green Grow the Rushes. Louis Jordan, The Green Grass Grows All Around. Rosemary Clooney, Mountain Greenery. Bill Haley and the Comets, Green Tree Boogie. New Order, Everything's Gone
The Perm & The Skullet
La Blogotheque
Friction NYC
Shake Your Fist
Indiefolkforever
BKLYN Song of the Day
Gorilla Vs. Bear
Bunch of Betty's Podcast MP3s!!
Raven Sings The Blues
Locust St.
Stream: Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Americana
