Browse by Artist: MORGENSTERN, BARBARA

Artist:	MORGENSTERN, BARBARA
Title:	Fjorden
Label:	MONIKA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	MONIKA 016CD

2nd album from Barbara Morgenstern, with guest production assistance from Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot), Thomas Fehlmann and Pole (production & mix on 5 tracks). "I was pleasantly touched by Barbara's debut album of autumn 1998 Vermona ET 6-1. With organ as her main instrument, the work was like an homage to the Czech organ of the same name, through without the trash quality. In that album Morgenstern melded warm analog sounds from the past and nineties beats in a techno-design of song writing, home recording and electronica, without retro-lounge-cuteness either. You could have called that work Indietronic, but the term didn`t exist at the time. Even now, two years later, it won`t fit. yet it comes to mind, because Fjorden has obviously been recorded with new equipment and new technique. Still working out of her own studio, using sampler and sequencer in her instrumentation, Barbara Morgenstern tells us stories. Her wonderful, heartbreaking voice, adds context to the beats and sounds. Fjorden comes across as familiar & intimate. This album is a clear step forward, without throwing the past overboard -- with its warm analog sound, is like a good friend visiting -- rotating in your CD player. You are not alone. Barbara Morgenstern is there with her music. And it`s wonderful that she`s there!" -- Jan Ole Jöhnk, Ende

Artist:	MORGENSTERN, BARBARA
Title:	Eine Verabredung
Label:	MONIKA (GERMANY)
Format:	10"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	MONIKA 021EP

"The autumn release of Barbara Morgenstern's new album Fjorden caused a general hysteria, love and addiction. Our new production was all because of Robert Lippok. He wrote one of the songs in corporation with Barbara and begged us to have the instrumental tracks released on vinyl. And of course, Robert's wish is our command. And here are the tracks on our beautiful and proved 10" vinyl: original album-versions of 'Eine Verabredung', 'Fjorden' and '37°', a new mix of 'Dr.mr.' by Barbara and the live version of 'Der Wunsch Teil Vier' with Christian Obermaier."

Artist:	MORGENSTERN, BARBARA
Title:	Himmel Mixe (Heaven Mixes)
Label:	MONIKA (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	MONIKA 032EP

"What can be more promising than the ultimate melancholic groover Lawrence remixing the addictive harmony composer Barbara Morgenstern? Or DNTEL's Jimmy Tamborello giving her a charming remix revenge? Or when the Bpitch dance queen Ellen Allien herself just joins in with Barbara and sings along and Berlin's mellow stars Tarwater do the same? All of them took extra care for their remixes and the result sounds purely wonderful. The A side is for dancing and the B side for lounging. If something beautiful comes out of the blue like that -- don't you just have to have it?" Remixes by Lawrence, Ellen Allien, Jimmy Tamborello [DNTEL, Figurine] and Tarwater.

Artist:	MORGENSTERN, BARBARA
Title:	Nichts Muss
Label:	MONIKA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	MONIKA 033CD

"Barbara's third album; it's utterly beautiful and, modestly put, her music shines brighter and more majestically than ever. Produced with Berlin's own Dubmeister Pole, with a little help from Thomas Fehlmann (who has previously produced artists as diverse as the Orb and Erasure), Nichts Muss is a prime cut of Teutonic electronic beauty; exquisite German pop music which will catapult Barbara into her own orbit, way beyond indietronics or other typical electronic vocal music. With dreamy confidence, Ms. Morgenstern combines the charisma of her voice with inspiration and even more songwriting talent, and the result is an amazing mixture, unique in today`s electronic scene. The adjectives we thought of while listening to this record were endless but, as mentioned, anyone with a pair of ears and a heart will discover those for himself."

Artist:	MORGENSTERN, BARBARA
Title:	The Operator
Label:	MONIKA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$6.50
Catalog #:	MONIKA 046CD

This is Barbara Morgenstern's sixth release on Monika. As a foretaste of her upcoming album, Monika Enterprise brings you a maxi CD single and 7" vinyl of Morgenstern's newest hit "The Operator." The song has a charming nursery rhyme feel and an unstoppable drive. Morgenstern's sound is both melancholic and uplifting. The acoustic piano version is beautiful in its simplicity and the maxi CD contains an exclusive new track, "Mein Elektrisches Tier" (trans. my electric animal). As Morgenstern herself puts it: "The 'Operator' is a kind of oracle or magic place where all the questions which pile up run together like thousands of cables to get disentangled. It's possible to reset one's inner being at this place, to undo what has been done, and how all this happens the educated listener can find out in the lyrics..." Get connected, and "take me to the Operator...."

Artist:	MORGENSTERN, BARBARA
Title:	The Grass Is Always Greener
Label:	MONIKA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	MONIKA 047CD

This is the long-awaited fifth full-length solo album from Berlin's queen of fragile and poetic electro-pop -- now introducing the piano. It's three years since Barbara Morgenstern's acclaimed album Nichts Muss, and as The Grass Is Always Greener goes to show, she has come a long way. Her Goethe Institut-sponsored world tour and many recent collaborations with, among others, Robert Lippok and Bill Wells have clearly been an inspiration for this album. Ms. Morgenstern combines the charisma of her voice with subtle melodic inspiration, fully displaying a bold, well-earned maturity. Her unmistakable voice and warm piano style make for a unique sound that is the perfection of minimal elegance. The album was produced by herself and mixed together with Bernd Jestram from Tarwater.

Artist:	MORGENSTERN, BARBARA
Title:	Come To Berlin (Remixes)
Label:	MONIKA (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MONIKA 063EP

As a taster of Barbara Morgenstern's album BM, Monika brings you 3 remixes of her politically-charged hit "Come To Berlin," including mixes by Telefon Tel Aviv, The Rice Twins and Chloé, as well as an exclusive single edit. The Rice Twins mix features vocoder-distorted vocals and swooping melodious synth strings. Telefon Tel Aviv's mix retains most of the original structure, but is fully club-compatible. DJ Chloé's treatment is a minimal cut perfect for the dancefloor with sampled piano and vocals.

Artist:	MORGENSTERN, BARBARA
Title:	BM
Label:	MONIKA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	MONIKA 064CD

This is the long-awaited fifth full-length solo album from Berlin's queen of fragile and poetic electro-pop, Barbara Morgenstern. However, Morgenstern's tag as an "electro-pop icon," with which she has been associated since the early days of the Berlin living room scene, no longer really fits. The lightness that was so characteristic of her previous work has given way to new depths. What was minimal before is now far more complex, even weighty. Barbara Morgenstern's latest pop music creation is utterly captivating and mesmerizing. BM is interspersed with distortions, cacophonies and bouncing rhythms. With such a backdrop, the sweeping pop moments with their wide panoramas which make the heart soar, only seem all the more vast. And it's really cool, on "Morbus Basedow" for example, the way hard noise gives way to what is tried and tested pop, after all. On the whole, Morgenstern's music on BM is as unpredictable as never before. The patterns emerging from the piano are reminiscent of the ballads and chansons of Brecht and Weill. While the ever-present electric guitar on the other hand, played by Sven Janetzko, just wants to rock. Multifarious patterns criss-cross and knock each other off course, causing tension. And in the background, things bubble up from the depths -- like gnawing doubts which are constantly squeaking or scraping away somewhere. This release is eclectic like none of her previous releases and no song is quite like any other. Some arrangements comply with clear pop mechanisms, while others, in contrast, are more idiosyncratic. Off-beats and polyrhythms are subtly presented to the listener. Throughout the album, Barbara's melodious and soft singing voice forms the center of attention, but right and left, above and below, there is always something very different happening. It's as if the music is the subtext to the thoughtful lyrics with their often unusual meter. The lyrics can also be very political, such as on "Come To Berlin," a piece about the shocking city planning in Berlin.

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