Sibylle Baier -- Color Green

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well no one's posted about this one yet, which is shocking!
i don't normally go for the femmes folktales like vashti bunyan or judy henske or judee sill or linda perhacs, but for some reason I checked this one out.
what a record! it's simply gorgeous and i keep wanting to listen to it at inappropriate times. some comparisons to nick drake and vashti bunyan, yes, but the best description i've heard was female leonard cohen. except her lyrics are more oblique and less showy. she's not about the voice (although it's lovely) or the songs (ditto)--there's a real ineffable quality that's perched right on that line between joy and despair where you're constantly wondering what this music is making you feel. i haven't just sat and listened to a record all the way through twice without doing anything else in a long long time.

― naturemorte, Sunday, 19 February 2006 13:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

the review for this makes is sound really appealing. and the story (reel stuck in the closet, discovered by her son, given to J. Masic)... if only she'd gone to jail or something, we'd have another Red Hash

― team jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 19 February 2006 20:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

i just got this recently, and well more people should know about this. reminds me a little of a less hippified bridget st john. i guess the leonard cohen comparisons are kinda valid, although i've never been a fan. um, anyway its great! this blog has some mp3s.

― zappi (joni), Saturday, 4 March 2006 14:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

wow, yeh, I'm listening to this for the first time now and it's a real dreamy delight, midway between vb and nico, the lyrics are great too.

― cw (cww), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

yey!

― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

ha joni! always first on the scene when there's some wistful cooing and guitar pickin'!

her accent is killing me I must listen again immediately...

― cw (cww), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

This is great, just FYI. Just got reish'd on LP finally. The first song kills me every damn time.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Monday, 31 July 2006 21:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yeah "Tonight" is probably the best single song I've heard all year. The album's great -- pretty samey, but I wouldn't complain. I could listen on repeat for all night I think. It scratches the same itch as Pink Moon, definitely

― people explosion (Sonny A.), Monday, 31 July 2006 21:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Jaxon, have you heard this yet??

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

an absolutely stunning record. one of the year's best (if you can say this year considering its genesis). i don't see the vashti bunyan resemblance other than on the most superficial level. nico is closer i guess. pastoral nico? i dunno, except to describe it as pastoral makes it seems floaty or wishy washy when it's tough as anything. i LOVE her voice though, i like it much more than nico's voice. the lyrics are so direct - very blunt descriptions with no obfuscation and some of the DARKEST lyrics i think i've ever heard.

there were times in my life
when i felt mad and depraved
and only the slopes gave me hope.

when i passed through the lake (?) i grasped i shall die
under the jessamine i shall die
and the elder tree it made me try to prepare for a new coming day
what is it that fills the deepness i feel?
you will say i'm mad. grabbing the hood
but how could i hide from top to food?

that i lost something in the hills,
i lost something in the hills,
oh i lost something in the hills.

now i lean on my windowsill
and i cry, though it's silly
and i'm dreaming of a friend away.
oh i know farther west these hills exist,
marked by apple trees, marked by a straight brook
that leads me wherever i want it to.

well i lost something in the hills,
i lost something in the hills,
oh i lost something in the hills.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

I can't stop listening to "Forget About" today. It has the prettiest chord changes.

― Turangalila, Sunday, 18 January 2009 21:35 (4 years ago) Permalink

love this record.

― ian, Sunday, 18 January 2009 21:37 (4 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, Forget About has an amazing tune. Whenever I listen to this album, straight away I think that "Tonight when I came home from work" is just the most evocative opening line of all the records I own. Great lyrics all through these songs.

― Eyeball Kicks, Sunday, 18 January 2009 22:36 (4 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

a friend played me her for the first time last month. i bust out crying like a big baby halfway through the first song and didnt stop until she turned it off.

its outstanding. both the recording sound and songs. fits right in with my favourite forgotten singers.

see also:
molly drake (nick's mum - her own songs have just been released on CD)
connie converse (disappeared mysteriously years ago, also recently unearthed and released)
and jandek, of course.

― jumpskins, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 23:47 (10 months ago) Permalink

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