An Die Musik [MP3]
Verschwiegene Liebe [MP3]
Auf Einer Burg [MP3]
Nähe Des Geliebten [MP3]
First thing you are told about Josephine Foster is that she an Opera school dropout. First thing you are told about a person, is something unique (and such is the case with Josephine) and something of pride. It seems to me that for Josephine it was always a bit of a shame to leave opera behind, and it seems she was never really able to. The haunting style chased her throughout her works, and here she succumbed to it, making it her leading light. It’s only a bit of a shame that we won’t be able to see her on stage and in opera concerts, however, her idealistic version of opera in this record is a marvel which compensates for it all. Idealistic? Yes, it’s in German after all. Like Klaus Nomi, she grew up from the opera world to bring it in new ways into popular music. But she does it in a different decade, and therefore in a different flavour. Like Joanna Newsom’s YS this is also a masterpiece, maybe we should marry it to YS. It wouldn’t be an odd couple, but one that was created to be together.
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