Sibylle Baier – ‘Colour Green’
admin on Feb 3rd 2008
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Where the belated championing of Vashti Bunyan has been a case of beautiful folk music being re-discovered, the story of Sibylle Baier is one of a talent that never made it far enough to be forgotten. Colour Green is an album of songs from home reel-to-reel tape recordings Baier made in Germany between 1970 and 1973, collected together by her son as a gift to family members over three decades later.
Fortunately, the resulting CD founds is way into the hands of Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis, who in turn passed it along to the Orange Twin label…and what we have here has been receiving a flurry of stunned praise ever since.
The wondeful thing about Colour Green is that, despite the stark nature of the arrangements, the quality and originality of the material is so pronounced that it quiickly draws Nick Drake to mind, painting with it abother picture of what might have been.
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