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Barbara Lahr She is known as THE voice of the german southwest and a respected performance-artist - and she is a true phenomenon. From the late 80s, when she had her breakthrough with her band "Sanfte Liebe" (Winner of the German Rock-award 1989 and the WDR-Studioaward 1990) she made her way not only as an excellent musician - live, at the studio, or in film- or stage-productions - always surprising wtith highly interesting bands and projects ranging from weird but smooth pop to exquisite chansons á la Lahr or in the tradition of Weill. From rockabilly and bluegrass to cool-melting blues and triphop. Always heading for new horizons, Barbara Lahr can't be pigeon-holed. Her fascinating versatility is represented by her great number of different releases like the celebrated album "New Flowers" with her former band "Sanfte Liebe" or the soundtrack for the movie "Raven Black Magic Rock" together with the Black Theater Prague. She also participated in the De-Phazz Album "Detunized Gravity" (produced by Pit Baumgartner) and the first single "Good Boy" has become a true insider-tip. |
Barbara Lahr`s solo-album (co-produced by Pit Baumgartner) is a groovy and unusal mix of the most varying elements: by using a sampler, guitar and her fascinating voice - sometimes in a husky masculine, sometimes in soft and seductive way - she creates her very own style. she wiggles her way somewhere in between bittersweet pop, blues, jazz and funky dub crossing with trippy drum n' bass rhythms and colourful root-elements. It is exactly this style of music, that (even now?) can't be described with one word nor with one-thousand. Every song on this album could be described as a piece of a puzzle. If you manage to put it together you'll get a picture showing all of the music of the last fifty years as one scene. You see, there's no room for boredom and the lyrical texts carried by this music are worth a closer listening. |
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But Barbara Lahr is not to be missed live - not only because of the use of finest audiovisual equipment but also for the impressive and highly professional stageskills that made her the german trip-hop diva.
Now it's up to you - if you want to dance or simply want to relax: Barbara Lahr's genius combination of spacesounds and thrilling pop-cadences is balm on ears and soul. Discography: Lyrical Amusement (mole011-2) CD, mp3 Lyrical Amusement Limited Edition with Bonus Track (mole011l-2) CD, mp3 Lyrical Amusement Reissue with Bonus Tracks (mole011r-2) CD Laughing Song (mole006-5) Single CD, mp3 |