Barbara Morgenstern - BM

*  Brand new album from one of the world’s most important female electronic artists.
*  The many counterpoints to the (mainly) friendly piano arpeggios; the lovely string arrangements by Julia Kent, cellist for Antony and the Johnsons; the collaboration with Robert Wyatt ‘Camouflage’; the unexpected changes and turns; the new versatility; all make BM the most unusual and perhaps most important album that Barbara Morgenstern has presented yet.
*  Barbara Morgenstern already swapped her legendary Vermona organ for a piano on her last album, The Grass Is Always Greener. For BM again she traded the piano in  ; this time for a Bechstein grand piano, which stands in the main hall of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures) in Berlin.
*  BM is interspersed with distortions, cacophonies, sweeping pop moments and bouncing rhythms. Some
arrangements comply with clear pop mechanisms while others, in contrast, are more idiosyncratic. Off-beats and polyrhythms are subtly presented to the listener. Throughout the album Barbara’s melodious and soft singing voice forms the center of attention, but right and left, above and below, there is always something very different happening.
*  Tracklist: 01. Driving My Car 05:13 02. Come To Berlin 04:14 03. Reich & Berühmt 04:50 04. Deine Geschichte 04:40 05. Für Luise 03:24 06. Camouflage 03:11 07. Hochhaus 02:55 08. Velocity 01:09 09. Morbus Basedow 03:55 10. Monokultur 03:58 11. Jakarta 03:18 12. Meine Aufgabe 02:16 13. Hustefuchs 03:54

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