Listening to Sibylle Baier on repeat these days. She has the most amazingly clear, smooth voice that feels like it’s perched inside your ear just for you. The story of her first, almost lost album:
“‘Colour Green’ was recorded in Germany in the 1970-1973. In a particularly dark and moody period of her young life, Claudine, a friend of Sibylle’s, dragged her out from under the bed and took her on a road trip to Strasbourg, ending up across the Alps in Genoa.
“Upon the return from this trip Sibylle felt her sprits renewed and she set out to write the song “Remember the Day”, grateful for being alive. It was the first song she ever wrote. Recorded in the late 1970s in her home on a reel to reel recording device, the songs on ‘Colour Green’ are intimate portraits of life’s sad and fragile beauty.”
Some of my favorites. Listen here:
Sibylle Baier – I Lost Something In The Hills
Sibylle Baier – The End (on YouTube)
gah! how did i miss this post? -love how it was recommended of the back of “cave of forgotten dreams” – both subjects close to my heart. this album is so beautiful. did you know she wasn’t a “musician” so to speak? just picked up the guitar one day and voila. colour green.