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N° 910 183-2
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2011
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Bassplayer: "Acclaimed 'downtown' jazz vocalist Bleckmann has covered everything from Vegas standards to Charles Ives, but his decision to dissect the music of Kate Bush is truly a match made in alternative heaven … Bleckmann captures both the thematic and theatrical sides of Bush's works, while extending them into further corners sonically and conceptually."
March 2012
Downbeat: "[…] Theo Bleckmann reinterprets the British singer's work through his own lens. It's a gutsy move … What's surprising about 'Hello Earth' is how seamlessly Bleckmann pulls it off."
March 2012
Jazztimes: "Bleckmann digs deep into Bush's first decade of work, drawing most heavily from her 'Hounds of Love'… But to think of these as interpretations is to underestimate Bleckmann's intent. Better to approach them as rechanneled dreamscapes. […] Casting himself as Bush's brother from another planet, Bleckmann remains true to both his source and himself."
March 2012
eMusic: "Like Bush, [Bleckmann] knows how to meld the ornamental and the essential in a manner that enriches both the package and the substance."
March 2012
Jazz.About.com: "On 'Hello Earth', Bleckmann showcases his mastery of affective and lyrical nuances with interpretations of songs by British art rocker Kate Bush. […] On one hand, each of the songs on the album sounds just like the original. On the other hand, each is somehow unique and independent. The music belongs not only to Kate Bush, but to Theo Bleckmann."
March 2012
Buffalo News: "This gorgeous adventure in music melding is both an immediate sensual pleasure and an otherworldly challenge that demands to be heard several
times."
March 11, 2012
NPR: "[A] beautifully careful, creative, empathetic reinterpretation of the
great Kate's music."
March 2012
The Irish Times: "Bleckmann and his band approach the songs like aliens examining a new life form, as if they landed in Bush's back garden and said, 'Take me to your Lieder!'. Always precise and technically meticulous, the singer pulls off that most difficult of balancing acts: being both adventurous and faithful to the material, probing each lyric for its meaning. The talented group, picked from New York's fertile downtown scene, create a spacey, ethereal backdrop, investing already extraordinary songs with a wide-eyed sense of wonder and discovery."
December 9, 2011
Jazzman CHOC
"L'un des plus singuliers vocalistes de ces dernières années réussit le tour de force d'être fidèle à l'esprit des chansons de la géniale Anglaise […] tout en se les appropriant de façon extrêmement sensuelle, comme s'il en visitait à pas feutrés les moindres plis et replis secrets."
January 2012
Concerto: "Mit seiner sehr speziellen Band […], quasi seiner 'Bush-Band' hat der Sänger und Komponist vor allem in den frühen Alben […] geforscht und Perlen hervorgeholt, diese sorgfältig untersucht und ihnen den hier vielfach 'ambienten', leicht schimmernden Bleckmann-Touch gegeben. […] die Singer/Songwriterin darf sich über dieses Geschenk ihres in New York lebenden deutschen "Verehrers" freuen, eine Kate Bush Renaissance könnte folgen."
December 2011/January 2012
Jazzpodium: "Bleckmann nimmt Elemente des Originals, arrangiert sie zusammen mit neuen Ideen, und schafft so die Quadratur des Pop-Kreises: Den Geist des Originals bewahren und doch seine ganz eigene Welt kreieren. Viele spannende Geschichten."
December 2011/January 2012
WAZ: "Für seine höchst faszinierende Bush-Hommage kann er sich auf ein Quartett exzellenter Mitmusiker verlassen, u.a. mit Schlagzeuger John Hollenbeck und Laurie Anderson-Bassist Skúli Sverrisson. Die Musik ist dezent, voller unverbrauchter Ideen, mal wie überweltlich verträumt, dann wieder zupackend intensiv. Insgesamt hat sie etwas Schwebendes, das ganz und gar unaufdringlich vorführt, wie die musikalischen Visionen der Kate Bush nicht auf den schnellen Hit abzielen, sondern als bleibendes Gesamtkunstwerk ein Klassiker der Popmusik sind."
October 14, 2011
Böblinger Bote: "Bleckmann verwandelt das Material mit viel Elektronik, Verfremdung und Ideen in spannende Cover-Versionen, die mal psychedelisch, mal abgefahren, mal soundverliebt und manchmal auch ganz einfach poetisch, aber immer mit ganz viel Hang zum Extravaganten daherkommen."
November 26, 2011 |
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English
German
French
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Theo Bleckmann [vocals, live electronic voice processing, toy piano, glockenspiel, caxixi]
Henry Hey [piano, minimoog synthesizer, fender rhodes piano, prepared harpsichord, voice]
Skúli Sverrisson [electric bass, voice]
Caleb Burhans [electric five string violin, electric guitar, voice]
John Hollenbeck [drums, percussion, crotales, voice]
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1. Running Up That Hill
2. Suspended In Gaffa
3. And Dream Of Sheep
4. Under Ice
5. Violin
6. Hello Earth
7. Cloudbusting
8. All The Love
9. Saxophone Song
10. Army Dreamers
11. The Man With The Child In His Eyes
12. Watching You Without Me
13. Love And Anger
14. This Woman’s Work
Compositions by Kate Bush
total time: 60:30 |
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