Sibylle Baier - Colour Green
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Artist: Sibylle BaierEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-02-07
Music Label: Orange Twin
Soundtracks:
- Tonight
- I Lost Something in the Hills
- The End
- Softly
- Remember the Day
- Forget About
- William
- Says Elliott
- Colour Green
- Driving
- Girl
- Wim
- Forgett
- Give Me a Smile
Music reviews of Colour Green
Music Review: Totally recommended for seventies folk enthusiasts as well as fans of contemporary singer/song-writers.
Rating: 5 Stars
Some of us here whose proclivities gravitate towards rare psych and folk have been bemoaning the recent flurry of "buried treasures" and "lost classics". It seems a day does not go by without a new release or re-issue of a forgotten or recently discovered artist rescued from obscurity passing before our attentive eyes and drooling mouths. Sometimes the "lost classic" status is not always deserved (not everything made in the sixties and seventies that didn't receive any attention is noteworthy, somethings are better off staying buried or lost), but it's sure keeping the reissue labels and revisionist musicologists busy as they map out an ever-growing expanse of the spheres of influence on music today. It's hard to keep up and also pay equal attention to all the great music that is being made right now.
This makes me very happy on the one hand that amazing music continues to be discovered but it also drives me crazy us to see my paycheck quickly dwindling every week. Why just in the past month, I've seen re-issues from Bridget St. John, Kay Hoffman, John Jacob Niles, Kaleidoscope and Fairfield Parlour (all pretty amazing!) among others. And now on my plate are these previously unreleased home recordings of German underground folk singer, Sibylle Baier.
I must admit when I first heard this, I suspected fraud. These recordings sound almost too contemporary to have been made in the early seventies. But after doing a little research, I found out this is no fraud. These intimate recordings fully deserve their "buried treasure" status, for whatever that's worth at this point. Baier, only previously known for a song on an early Wim Wenders film soundtrack, recorded these songs in her home from 1970-73 after a "spirit-renewing" trip through the Swiss Alps. She has the warm Sunday jam and tea voice reminiscent of Vashti Bunyan, but with the more spare guitar compositions and melancholy vocal delivery of someone like Chan Marshall. In fact, I sort of wish the new Cat Power or Beth Orton records were this good! Like Bunyan, Baier shunned what could have been a successful career in order to raise a family and it's because of her son, Robby, that these recordings are being heard at all. But unlike Bunyan, these songs don't derive from a back to nature hippie-folk aesthetic, but rather they come from a more delicate fragility where life's beauty and despair are interwoven with the tiny details of daily life. Beautiful! Totally recommended for seventies folk enthusiasts as well as fans of contemporary singer/song-writers.
Description of Colour Green
Product Description In a particularly dark and moody period of her young life, a friend of Sibylle's took her on a road trip to Strasbourg, and they ended up across the Alps in Genoa. Upon returning, Sibylle felt her spirits renewed and she wrote the song, "Remember The Day", grateful to be alive. Recorded in the early '70s, the songs on this CD are intimate portraits of life's sad and fragile beauty. A gem of an album. Sibylle is a star who chose to shine for her friends and family instead of for the whole world.Recorded in the early seventies in her home on a reel-to-reel recording device, the songs on Colour Green are intimate portraits of life's sad and fragile beauty.
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