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Sibylle Baier is a German folk singer and actress whose musical abilities achieved belated recognition with the 2006 release of the album Colour Green, compiled from songs she had recorded in the early 1970s.
Having played guitar and piano as a young girl, she was moved to write her first song, “Remember The Day”, after taking a road trip with a friend across the Alps to Genoa, via Strasbourg. She appeared in Wim Wenders’ 1973 film Alice in the Cities, and her music also featured in Umarmungen und andere Sachen (1975), a German Jochen Richter film set in Bavaria about three romantically involved bank robbers. Baier opted not to pursue an acting or singing career, and moved to America where she concentrated on raising a family.
The songs that went on to make up her album Colour Green were home reel-to-reel tape recordings Baier had made in Germany between 1970 and 1973. Some thirty years later her son Robby compiled a CD from these recordings to give to family members as presents. He also gave a copy to Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis, who in turn passed it along to the Orange Twin label. Orange Twin released the album in February 2006. She is expected to release a second studio album. She performs the song “Let Us Know” in Wim Wenders’ movie Palermo Shooting (2008).
www.sibyllebaier.com/
Having played guitar and piano as a young girl, she was moved to write her first song, “Remember The Day”, after taking a road trip with a friend across the Alps to Genoa, via Strasbourg. She appeared in Wim Wenders’ 1973 film Alice in the Cities, and her music also featured in Umarmungen und andere Sachen (1975), a German Jochen Richter film set in Bavaria about three romantically involved bank robbers. Baier opted not to pursue an acting or singing career, and moved to America where she concentrated on raising a family.
The songs that went on to make up her album Colour Green were home reel-to-reel tape recordings Baier had made in Germany between 1970 and 1973. Some thirty years later her son Robby compiled a CD from these recordings to give to family members as presents. He also gave a copy to Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis, who in turn passed it along to the Orange Twin label. Orange Twin released the album in February 2006. She is expected to release a second studio album. She performs the song “Let Us Know” in Wim Wenders’ movie Palermo Shooting (2008).
www.sibyllebaier.com/
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kintopp wrote:
There's more good musical ideas being followed around in The End than in a dozen of most people's songs.. jd_jd_jd is right.
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moraleesch wrote:
Forget About .. really good
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tokyochorus wrote:
another album in the works? for real?
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DrewdaJew wrote:
holy ships
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surajsharma wrote:
sexay!
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zzzo_O wrote:
Wonderful
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gerard2005 wrote:
great songs
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Sunzy wrote:
Colour Green is so lovely
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gregoryoftours wrote:
one of the best orange twin releases that i know of
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Jd_Jd_Jd wrote:
This is one talented artist
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spaced_0ut wrote:
great songs.
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SimonePerrota wrote:
GOD YES!
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teo_almeida wrote:
sibylle baier makes me cry so easily. not because her lyrics are sad but because her songs are a pearl of simple beauty
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GuilhermeJohn wrote:
musica com sentido.
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okayokejokhey wrote:
her songs...i dont know man, they are amazing. i cant even describe them in this box....
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ot63 wrote:
what a voice
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MorphineTrek wrote:
amazing voice. Great find.
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Kor21 wrote:
hmm
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swantonist wrote:
Legend
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imprecisely wrote:
this woman changed my life.
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