The opportunity to mention here " Colour Green, the only disk Sibylle Baier, is given to us by his (re) published in Vinyl by the American Dust on 22 June.
At the invitation of Other Music, the CD edition (published by Orange Twin) became part of our collection at the time of its release (2006, but the recordings date from the early seventies).
I was nothing short of amazed at what I was discovering, and that does not give up - even years after - the reader; pure artist who - as Vashti Bunyan before her - had chosen the way of expression but privileged folk like the family in relation to musical career.
Christina Carter expresses perfectly, as only another musician can do, the timeless charm of this disc:
" Each song is a masterpiece in and of Itself in all four respects: lyrically, melodically, technically (guitar playing) and vocally. Lyrically each song joins the poetic and the narrative i.e. short story, in a way seldom achieved in English language songwriting. They have something in common with traditions that join sophisticated lyric with popular music e,g, Brazilian/Portuguese, French and Russian. Subtle, elegiac, but not sentimental; rhymes are fresh and not cloying yet also not eccentric (very hard combination to achieve). And despite being reflective, live in the moment, alive...the imagery is original, and psychologically charged...melodically complex yet penetratingly simple and unforced...the guitar playing is like a beautiful, perfectly proportionate chair, the structure which allows the whole of the song to sit in equilibrium. Inventive within the means of what makes dynamic sense. No wasted note and yet still with individual personality. A chair made by a master chairmaker...her voice is clear and without affectation or pretension, yet expressive. It sounds only like her, not like anyone else. And she has that 'thing' that is inexplicable: a certain singerly timbre which is not merely ornamental and cannot be acquired. It's natural and comes out of the inner nature of the artist...the emotion in her songs is held somewhat at a distance in order to be perceived more clearly, and yet the tone is not cold or empty...I think all of these things make her songs each a perfect masterpiece. I keep thinking of made things like wine, a meal of perfectly balanced textures, flavors, ingredients, the finest made furniture, etc ... ..
really necessary.
( www.americandust.net )
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