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“I don’t like country & western, I don’t like rock music… I don’t like rockabilly! I don’t like much really do I? But what I do like, I love passionately!!”: CHRIS LOWE

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NINA Sleepwalking

16 March 2018 /

‘Sleepwalking’ is the long-awaited debut album from the classically trained German songstress NINA.

With a musical palette shaped by a love of QUEEN, DEPECHE MODE, DAVID BOWIE, ALPHAVILLE, KRAFTWERK, NENA, CHROMATICS and LADYHAWKE, it contains some of her most personal work yet; “I think it’s important to keep your work personal and evolve as an artist” she told ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK.

Since her second single ‘We Are The Wild Ones’ in 2013, Berlin-born songstress NINA has grown in profile and stature. Support slots with ERASURE and DE/VISION followed in 2014 but it was her third single ‘My Mistake’ that became her breakthrough song. Beginning the long player, nocturnal warmth exudes from ‘Beyond Memory’, demonstrating how NINA’s own brand of pulsating electronic pop acts as a bridge between synthwave and synthpop.

With her vocals deliciously slicing the moonlit atmosphere with a superbly breathy chorus, ‘Beyond Memory’ is about past relationships. A close relative of the Mercedes-Benz endorsing ‘My Mistake’, ‘Beyond Memory’ more than makes up for its absence on the album.

Meanwhile, ‘Born To Live’ is embroiled in confidence with a soaring chorus recalling AVEC SANS, sweetened with a highly alluring almost spoken middle eight à la KID MOXIE, while the synth line recalls the rather obscure ‘There Goes the Cure’ by ONE DOVE.

Full of arpeggiators and pulsating synths, ‘Sleepwalking’ is a vibrant number that paces the mood to a gallop, with a delightful keyboard cascade finish. Bubbling electronics over a sparse intro lead into the nocturnal synth AOR of ‘It Kills Me’. With piano also entering the fray, it’s not unlike Toronto’s very own electronic pop combo PARALLELS.

The previously issued B-side ‘Purple Sun’ does what it says on the tin, is it a love letter to PRINCE or something else entirely? The layers of backing vocals might provide a clue…

The drive-friendly ‘Empire Of Love’ lifts the tempo again with a glorious whirring ULTRAVOX-styled synth solo to buoy up proceedings, but at the opposite end of the album’s colourful spectrum, ‘Diamonds In The Rough’ is a perfect Brat Pack movie ballad, while also emulating some of the best in Scandinavian pop overtures and allowing NINA’s soprano to shine. And although “everybody’s here, they’re having fun”, a forlorn NINA reflects on not fitting in… cut from a similar cloth, the cinematic Nordic pop of One Of Us’ is heartfelt, Fraulein Boldt’s musical catharsis about school bullying.

And when she is ‘Counting Stars’, the song utilises vintage synth sounds to the max, both rich and retro-futuristic with “a mission on our own” like classic PET SHOP BOYS. ‘Your Truth’ is more compelling neon-lit synth AOR, with another rousing chorus and some guitar inflections combining with those vintage love theme Emulator voices as she confirms “I’ll be there for you”.

For a fabulously optimistic conclusion to the album, ‘80s Girl’ comes beaming over like the missing theme song from the film ‘Mannequin’. With big Simmons drums, sampled orchestra stabs and driving synthbass triplets, it is however delivered with subtlety and restraint so that it doesn’t turn into a HEART or STARSHIP pastiche.

Dedicated to her mother, it’s great song that sums up the best in NINA. And in a telling message to everyone, she declares “don’t let the past hold you back”. Yes, it all does sound like a John Hughes film soundtrack but that’s not a bad thing.

A highly enjoyable musical journey that’s strong on melody, Richard X, Oscillian and Sunglasses Kid have each done a very good job working with NINA to produce a cohesive body of work.

A positive album for outsiders and individuals, NINA is a songstress who speaks for the lonely and disenchanted without going all Emo. It’s been many years in the making, but NINA’s ‘Sleepwalking’ has been well worth the wait.

Special thanks to Laura Fares at Aztec Records

‘Sleepwalking’ is released by Aztec Records, available as a download from https://ninasounduk.bandcamp.com/album/sleepwalking-album

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Text by Chi Ming Lai
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16th March 2018

HANNAH PEEL: The MARY CASIO Interview

15 March 2018 /

An enjoyable melancholic exploration in sound, ‘Mary Casio: Journey To Cassiopeia’ is an intriguing listen that experiments with and successfully blends seemingly incongruous timbres.

It is the work of Hannah Peel and tells the story of Mary Casio, a fictional elderly musical stargazer. It musically documents her lifelong dream to leave her terraced home in the mining town of Barnsley to journey into space to see Cassiopeia, the constellation in the northern sky named after the vain queen in Greek mythology who boasted about her unrivalled beauty.

Featuring an array of analogue synthesizers and a 29-piece colliery brass band recorded live at the Barnsley Civic Theatre, it took Peel back to her youth when she played trombone in such bands. Indeed, the instrumental ‘Octavia’ from her second long player ‘Awake But Always Dreaming’ had showcased the format’s possibilities with its cascading woodwinds and brass combining with a buzzing barrage of electronics.

And after numerous dates around the UK, Hannah Peel brings ‘Journey To Cassiopeia’ to London for its biggest performance yet at the soon-to-be reopened Queen Elizabeth Hall at London’s South Bank Centre. The interstellar musical experience will contain striking visuals plus a performance of Mike Oldfield’s ‘Tubular Bells’ by TUBULAR BRASS, the brass band that will be accompanying her for this concert.

Fresh from writing the music for a new stage adaptation of ‘Brighton Rock’ and collaborating with Paul Weller, Hannah Peel kindly took time out to talk about how the ‘Journey To Cassiopeia’ has lifted off…

A synth / brass band concept album was quite a way out idea but you’ve been vindicated…

Ha thank you, phew! Yes I suppose you can’t tell if something will work, but knowing colliery brass bands so well from my childhood I knew their limitations deep down, so it felt very natural to really play with the missing frequencies on the synths. It worked live first and foremost. I didn’t know if that would work recording wise though. Live at every show, extraordinarily countless audience members have told me they couldn’t stop crying at the overpowering force of sound that resonates in the air. Even I get a lump in the throat every time.

Why do you think that the plaudits warmed to ‘Journey To Cassiopeia’?

I suppose maybe because it hasn’t ever been done before? I’m so thankful they have warmed! I’ve really tried to not only follow my own artistic journey delving further into the mind with the story behind the record, but also take that traditional colliery brass band sound into a new realm too. Move them on from the lonely bandstand in a park on a rainy Sunday.

The album was recorded live in Barnsley, did you need to do many takes to get the vibe you wanted?

Luckily we had performed the album live three times in full before at concerts, so the players were really fine tuned to the movement of the piece. There was only at most two takes per track, all finished within three hours. It was recorded in one of the first theatres I ever went to when we moved to Yorkshire, The Civic in Barnsley… refurbished now, but it felt dreamlike to be back there.

‘Life Is On The Horizon’ gently rings like a beacon signalling home…

I love that Flugal horn solo. Alexandra Kenyon plays it so beautifully. Originally it was all made on the Korg Mono/Poly, a broken one too. The two synths lines interweaving together needed to be brought to life with breath and she does that perfectly. The Flugal horn is my favourite instrument in the brass band.

The closing track ‘The Planet Of Passed Souls’ is quite poignant, featuring your grandfather as a choirboy. It had a lovely ‘New World Symphony’ feel about it…

Yes recorded in 1927 in Manchester Cathedral – he was one of the first choirboys ever to make a recording. Apparently the label were not happy with the recording quality so they went back to re-record, but his voice had just broken. I ripped it off YouTube! I’d love to get the original from somewhere.

After finding that sample though and finishing the track it felt like this was the planet that Mary Casio would first set her feet on. With wind and rain much like earth, the alien landscape starts to become more surreal drawing out audio memories from her brain and dispelling them into the air. I couldn’t write anymore after this, it felt like the end of either Mary’s life on earth or her waking from a daydream, or maybe she actually went there and we just loose contact…

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When you last spoke to us in Summer 2016, you were talking about releasing ‘Journey To Cassiopeia’ as Mary Casio, but of course, it has since been released under your own name?

Yes that’s right. I suppose when I started to research deeper into why I had even written the album and what relationship it had to ‘Awake But Always Dreaming’, I realised they were intrinsically linked. Whenever I had seen petri dishes full of brain neurons by scientists researching Alzheimer’s disease, I couldn’t get over how looking down the microscope felt like staring up at the starry night sky.

You’ll be performing ‘Journey To Cassiopeia’ at the re-opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South Bank. Will this performance differ from the other live presentations that have been taking place since the album’s release?

It will be with the full 29 piece Colliery Brass band and myself on synths. Joining us will be Dan Conway on live interactive visuals and it will be the first full London show of this album and ‘Tubular Bells’.

How do the brass band players feel about playing in unison with your electronics?

Now we have it nailed, it’s really great fun, especially if you can feel the Moog’s sub bass rumbling under the stage, knocking music off stands etc. But in the beginning I’m not sure they enjoyed it at all! In our first rehearsals, not only was it new to them as a genre but it was hard for me too to get the right balance and get my old synths to work right. So coupled with terrible speakers they had a lot to deal with, I’ve since opted for newer versions for stress alleviation.

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You opened for Alison Moyet last Autumn, what was that like and how did her audience take to you?

I had brilliant time on tour with Alison and her crew. It was slightly strange at first playing in sit down theatres – hard to judge an audience and feel what was happening beyond the lights, but I got used to it and had an incredible time. Her fans were very welcoming and I learnt a lot from Alison too. She’s such a magnificent force.

How did you find trying to effectively promote both ‘Awake But Always Dreaming’ and ‘Journey To Cassiopeia’ in 2017?

Ah yes that was very tricky for my mental headspace. I didn’t expect there to be such a strong overlap a year on from ‘Awake But Always Dreaming’. It was good though that they are both so different so it made it easier in a sense to compartmentalise.

Where are you heading next musically? Will it be songs again or would you fancy doing something like Eno’s ‘Another Green World’ and have a fair portion of instrumentals between more conventional ‘song’ material?

That’s my favourite Eno record actually! I have no idea where this next year will lead me album wise. There is a lot of commissioned composing work that has come along that I’m very excited about. I’ve just finished my first choir piece with synths that will debut in April in Hull and I’ve also just finished writing the music for a new stage adaptation of Graham Greene’s ‘Brighton Rock’ which is now touring until June. I’m learning something new every day and it feels extremely challenging yet happily rewarding too at the same time.

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You demonstrated an old EDP Wasp synth on BBC Radio 3’s ‘The Listening Service’, where did you find it and have you added any more hardware to your armoury of late?

Oh she’s a beauty and I found her on a Facebook page for selling and swapping synths. I now have a Roland Jupiter 4 too this year and saving up for a wonderful Italian modular synth… the old car is just going to have to survive that bit longer.

ELECTRICITY CLUB.CO.UK gives its warmest thanks to Hannah Peel

‘Mary Casio: Journey To Cassiopeia’ is released by My Own Pleasure in vinyl, CD and digital formats, available from https://hannahpeel.tmstor.es/

Hannah Peel performs ‘Mary Casio: Journey To Cassiopeia’ at Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s South Bank on Saturday 14th April 2018, tickets available from https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/125635-hannah-peel-tubular-brass-2018

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Text and Interview by Chi Ming Lai
15th March 2018

CREEP SHOW Mr Dynamite

14 March 2018 /

CREEP SHOW is an electronic meeting of minds between eclectic US singer / songwriter John Grant and the dark analogue electro of WRANGLER, the trio comprising Stephen Mallinder, Phil Winter and Benge.

Brought together for the Rough Trade 40th Anniversary celebrations in 2016, the first fruit of this collaboration is ‘Mr Dynamite’ – an album which was recorded in Cornwall following the move of Benge’s Memetune studio from its original Hoxton location. Opening with the title track, ‘Mr Dynamite’ sees Grant’s vocal cut-up, pitch-changed and split over different keys on a vintage AKAI sampler. This is then laid over a minimalist drum machine, bass pulse and a signature John Grant synth lead.

‘Modern Parenting’ sees a hybrid of funky bass synth and echoed sequenced synths with a typical quirky Grant vocal. The addition of female backing vocals give the overall impression of TALKING HEADS ditching their guitars and going fully electronic instead; the surreal chorus hook of “when your doggy jumps the fence and sets its sights on you” also adds to the playful, funky nature of the track.

‘Tokyo Metro’ is a KRAFTWERK-inspired 8-bit Chip-Tune style piece, the vocodered vocal very reminiscent of ‘Dentaku’, their Japanese version of ‘Pocket Calculator’.

‘Endangered Species’ is a chilled glitchy piece with a floaty string synth; the track also gives Grant a chance to go into his full-on crooner mode and take a squealing lead synth solo. The song ramps up a level with the unexpected addition of CULTURE CLUB’s original backing vocalists Mary Pearce, Maria Q and Zee Asher; having originally toured with Grant, they give the slightly creepy “You are the endangered species” hook a brilliantly quirky resonance. For those familiar with Grant’s work, the nearest comparison here would be his solo tracks ‘Voodoo Doll’ and ‘Black Belt’; the ones where he mixes vitriol and downright bitchiness…

On the final two lengthy tracks ‘Fall’ and ‘Safe & Sound’, the band go full-on KRAFTWERK and GIORGIO MORODER; the songs are given room to breathe and reveal themselves gradually with some wonderfully warmly melodic synth parts. On ‘Fall’, there are tiny slithers of voices which float over the instrumental backing and on ‘Safe & Sound’, Grant reins in the quirkiness to deliver a hazy vibrato-filled vocal.

‘Mr Dynamite’ is a really fresh and uncontrived sounding album, it’s not over-produced and comes across as a piece of work that all involved had a real blast making. It would have been interesting if the band had pursued the sound of the final track a little further though. There still remains a gaping hole in the market for retro synthesizer-based tracks featuring a real vocalist, not just someone that’s appears to have been drafted in as an afterthought (see: some underperforming UK-based synth acts).

The CREEP SHOW album really plays to the combined strengths of WRANGLER and John Grant; the latter’s vocals being the icing on the proverbial electronic cake and ensuring the listener will undoubtedly reacquaint themselves with ‘Mr Dynamite’ time and time again and again.

‘Mr Dynamite’ is released on 16th March 2018 by Bella Union

CREEP SHOW 2019 live dates:

Sheffield The Foundry (5th October), Liverpool Arts Club Loft (6th October), Bristol Trinity Centre (8th October), London Scala (9th October), Hove Old Market (10th October), Newcastle Boiler Shop (12th October), Glasgow Art School (14th October)

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Text by Paul Boddy
14th March 2018, updated 26th June 2019

A Short Conversation with RODNEY CROMWELL

12 March 2018 /

Like the sound of Giorgio Moroder played through a Soviet Foxtrot submarine intercom system, ‘Comrades’ is the brand new single from Rodney Cromwell.

The musical vehicle of musician and Happy Robots Records CEO Adam Cresswell, it comes from ‘Rodney’s English Disco’ EP, the first all new material since the critically acclaimed ‘Age Of Anxiety’.

Dusting off his Boss DR-55 Doctor Rhythm and what appeared to have become his redundant MicroKorg to use alongside his vintage Moogs, the new Rodney Cromwell EP sees Cresswell take on wider issues inspired by the world’s confrontational political climate after the very personal lyrical statements of songs like ‘Black Dog’ and ‘You Will Struggle’ on his debut long player.

To support the upcoming release ‘Rodney’s English Disco’, Cresswell will shortly embarking on the ‘Ohm From Ohm’ tour. Adam Cresswell kindly chatted about life, synths and the Happy Robots way…

The new EP is called ‘Rodney’s English Disco’? Are you leaving the beany hat at home and donning a flared white suit instead?

Ha ha! Not at all. In fact the selection of beany hats has increased. I’ve not gone any more disco than previously. This record is very much inspired by these strange unsettled times living in England right now, and the juxtaposition of Englishness and Disco seemed to fit. And I would look terrible in a white suit.

But in many ways, Rodney Cromwell has always been disco, just in that detached SECTION 25 kind of way?

Absolutely. I mean ‘One Two Seven’ on ‘Age of Anxiety’ was a paean to the disco beat. In fact there is probably more direct Giorgio Moroder, Divine or BLACK DEVIL DISCO CLUB  influences in the Rodney Cromwell sound than there is DEPECHE MODE or Gary Numan. As for SXXV, well you know I’ve always been a fan; my favourite LP of theirs is probably ‘Love & Hate’, but ‘Dark Light’ is a close second these days.

Nearly three years on since its release, how do you look back on ‘Age Of Anxiety’?

Well I can’t say I’ve listened to it lately but after our first rehearsal in ages, I felt I probably should have. I still think very fondly of it. If I had known anyone would listen to it, I should have spent a bit longer mixing it, maybe corrected some of the mistakes, but equally that rough and ready-ness added to its honest confessional nature, it was part of its charm. I was incredibly happy how well it was received and I’m still really proud of it.

The vocoder laden ‘Comrades’ has a really chilling Cold War atmosphere, what inspired that?

I’d written ‘Dreamland’ but I was struggling with writers block – or at least I wasn’t writing anything I liked. One afternoon I ended up thumping at the MicroKorg and came up with the opening riff – I thought it sounded a bit Numan or Foxx-ish and I just built the song around that. Chilling is a good word for it. I wanted this record to be a bit darker and atmospheric – I was probably arguing with some alt-right crackpot on Twitter while recording, so that is likely what inspired it.

‘Barbed Wire’ appears to continue this sombre Cold War theme?

This was the first track I’ve ever written inspired by my Facebook wallpaper. I wanted to write something on the bass guitar mainly because I was listening to a lot of BLACK MARBLE at the time. But the track came out sounding much more ‘indie’ than I wanted. So when it came to producing, we tried to make it as sombre and austere as possible. Lots of reverb and synthy drones with a touch of ‘Deutschland 83’ vibe.

The neo-instrumental ‘Technocrats’ drops in some quite weird sounding chords?

I have no idea what the difference between a neo-instrumental and an instrumental is – but I like it!
This one started out really poppy and upbeat, in a ‘Popcorn’ meets ‘Pocket Calculator’ way; but by throwing in a couple of weird chords, it became a bit more whacky and disconcerting, like the rest of the record. I actually wrote this track really quickly – it went to concept to mixed in about three weeks which is a miracle for me. I have my producer Rich Bennett to thank for that. He described this one as a kraut-jam which sounds about right.

There’s a bit of an early OMD feel on ‘Dreamland’?

That’s probably due to the drums and the Solina strings. This was the first track written for the EP and I decided to dig out the old Boss DR-55 – it’s the drum machine on the first NEW ORDER album ‘Movement’. And anyway I just loved those sounds, so I decided to build the whole EP around them. ‘Dreamland’ is ultimately a break-up song and OMD do great breakup songs.

Are there any new synths in your armoury?

Nope. Don’t you know, I run a record label – I don’t have money for buying new synths. I’ve have actually succumbed to the convenience of soft synths though. After someone told me one of my very favourite albums LADYTRON’s ‘604’ was recorded entirely with soft synths, I got over my innate snobbishness and I use the Arturia Solina String Ensemble soft synth all over this record.

What do you think of those clones that Behringer are attempting to market?

I’m completely oblivious to what new synths are coming to market. But if Behringer want to send me a couple, I will happily test them extensively.

So how have you been juggling making music, along with running Happy Robots Records and releasing acts like HOLOGRAM TEEN, PATTERN LAGUAGE, TINY MAGNETIC PETS and SINOSA? Is this why it’s just an EP?

Nah! Even at my most prolific I’ve never managed more than four or five good songs a year, so a new Rodders album was never going to happen.

Running the label has been great – and it has been awesome working with such great bands. But it is such a lot of work trying to make a success of it – particularly when juggling with a day job. You do sometimes feel trapped in a great endless cycle of work and it starts to make you go a bit crackers to be honest. And obviously, it’s even harder financially now that it was even two years ago – when I did the Hologram Teen 7” in 2016, I got 300 units for £700 but now the same is over a grand. It’s crazy and likely to get much worse.

‘Ohm From Ohm’? But Ohm is where the ARP is?

The ARP is in my new studio room in the loft. Gathering dust. I’m sure someone wrote a song about that once.

What can potential punters expect if they come along to any of your upcoming shows?

From me, three tracks from the new EP, three or four of the big hitters from ‘Age of Anxiety’, some nice looking visuals and maybe a costume change (or at least a hat change). With four bands, we’re going to be running a tight ship, so perhaps you won’t get as much banter as some RODNEY CROMWELL shows. It’s going to be fun though, all the bands are great and we get on really well (for now).

Where is electronic music heading? Are you happy that CHVRCHES have gone the full Taylor or are you more of a Chris Carter man?

I like pop music, but I’m not a Taylor Swift fan really. Not enough melody for me, she makes my stuff sound like Paul McCartney. I read something on Twitter saying she’s a Trump supporting neo-nazi, but even I think is going a bit far. I’ve not heard the new Chris Carter although it’s on the list and I’m sure the new CHVRCHES will be good.

As for where electronic music is heading; well it all seems to be getting a bit darker, doesn’t it. I listened to the new COMPUTER MAGIC yesterday and even that is a bit dark in places. It’s the creatives rallying together. The post post-truth pop revolution has begun.

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‘Comrades’ is released by Happy Robots Records as a download single including a remix by VIEON via https://rodneycromwell.bandcamp.com/album/comrades

‘Rodney’s English Disco’ EP will be released on 25th May 2018 in a 7” vinyl+CD combo, pre-order from the Botshop at https://www.happyrobots.co.uk/product-page/rodney-cromwell-7-cd-rodney-s-english-disco-bot12

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Text and Interview by Chi Ming Lai
12th March 2018

KATJA VON KASSEL Walking In West Berlin EP

10 March 2018 /

The captivating German songstress Katja von Kassel follows up her debut EP with a three song plus bonus variants compendium entitled ‘Walking In West Berlin’.

Having worked previously with LADYHAWKE collaborator Alex Gray, ‘Walking In West Berlin’ sees a change of direction in a new writing partnership with former Numan keyboardist Chris Payne, fresh from a rebooting of his ELECTRONIC CIRCUS side-project and his successful stint writing with Rusty Egan where his contributions were sung by luminaries such as Midge Ure and Tony Hadley.

“The tragedy of life is always a good inspiration to me” Katja once said and this is none more apparent on the airy magnificence of ‘Someday’. Capturing the beautiful melancholy of ASSOCIATES’ Billy Mackenzie, the doomed love affair is echoed by the chanteuse’s deep forlorn delivery, accompanied by Payne’s hypnotic synth bassline and haunting Numan-esque vox humana over a simple but hypnotic rhythmic loop.

And when some gentle piano cascades into the song’s second half, it generates an emotional lift which takes ‘Someday’ into a dreamy stratosphere; a sparse alternate Cinematic take of the song prolongs the song’s inherently introspective mood sans percussion.

Exuding purer electro Weimar cabaret with her Dietrich-like overtones, ‘Radio Symphony’ is more dramatic with a harder percussive edge, but still distinctly European and technolstagic in its Kraftwerkian fascination of the broadcast medium’s highly contrasting moods and motivations.

The ‘Walking In West Berlin’ title track is laced with Europäisch Neu Romantisch, to the point that it almost sounds as it is going to burst into ‘Fade To Grey’, the German No1 for VISAGE in 1981 which Chris Payne co-wrote with Billy Currie and Midge Ure; there are also hints of Scott Walker in his lonely Jean-Paul Satre phase too within the poetic grandeur of Katja’s delivery.

Bolstered by versions of all the tracks in Deutsch, this EP contains a thematically cohesive trio of songs that showcase the best in the musical sensibilities of both Fraulein von Kassel and Monsieur Payne.

If not a full-length album, then a follow-up EP is a must. It really would be a shame if the chemistry and compatibility of the von Kassel / Payne partnership was not artistically furthered.

The eight track ‘Walking In West Berlin’ EP featuring German versions of the songs is available as a download or CD from https://katjavonkassel.bandcamp.com/

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Text by Chi Ming Lai
10th March 2018

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