Frigg, the German group led by composer/guitarist Bert Wrede, is named after a Norse goddess who was worshipped by both northern and southern Germanic barbarian traditions. Wrede is an experimentalist devoted to the avant-garde and European music traditions. There is little free improvisation on Brecht, which, contrary to what one might think after reading the title, is not an album of Bertolt Brecht's songs. Therefore, it is not a tribute album. Instead, Wrede claims that Frigg'...   [ read more ]

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First CD reissue of the 2nd and final Cristina album, originally issued in 1984. Deluxe foldout digipak reissue, with 6 bonus tracks. Produced by Don Was, with guest musicians including Marcus Melgrave & James Chance. "The singer fared better with her next collaborator, Don Was. 'It's completely in keeping with the ZE philosophy to put two extremely disparate elements together, and see what happens,' says the producer. Sleep It Off was a masterpiece, from its unsettling Jean Paul Goude cover, to the haunti...   [ read more ]

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This is the long-awaited fifth full-length solo album from Berlin's queen of fragile and poetic electro-pop, Barbara Morgenstern. However, Morgenstern's tag as an "electro-pop icon," with which she has been associated since the early days of the Berlin living room scene, no longer really fits. The lightness that was so characteristic of her previous work has given way to new depths. What was minimal before is now far more complex, even weighty. Barbara Morgenstern's latest pop music creation is utterly cap...   [ read more ]

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