Name: Colour Green
Brand: Sibylle Baier

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Catalogue number

OTR022LP

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Black

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2012-11-26

Signed copies

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Supplier US

Darla

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

646315929119

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Total Cap

Black LP

Artist

Sibylle Baier

Genre US

60s & 70s

Label US

Orange Twin

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' 1974 film Alice In Den Städten (Alice In The Cities), and her music is also featured in Jochen Richter's Umarmungen Und Andere Sachen (1975) and in Wim Wenders' Palermo Shooting (2008). Baier opted not to pursue an acting or singing career, and eventually 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 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. A second studio album is expected from Sibylle Baier.

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In a particularly dark and moody period of Sibylle's young life, a friend Claudine dragged her out from under the bed and took her on a road trip to Strasbourg, France ending up across the Alps in Genoa, Italy. 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. Recorded in her home on a reel-to-reel tape recorder, the songs on Colour Green are intimate portraits of life's sad and fragile beauty.

Colour Green

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