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Much has happened since the debut of Angie Reed’s first album THE BEST OF BARBARA BROCKHAUS WITH MUSIC FOR THE LAZY AND NOT THE BUREAUCRAZY 2003. The album to accompany her solo-show “The Barbara Brockhaus Live Secretary Show“ has since been performed all over Europe up until this very day in 2005. Meanwhile, her drawings and animations have been presented in exhibitions throughout various german cities, Bracelona and Rotterdam. She has lent her voice to the dubbing of film, for the main character in TOERN, by Gabor Altorjay; radio; audio-plays and audio-books (the german audio-book adaption of The Coka-Hola Company). Additionally, Angie Reed has played main roles in theater pieces and movies: LADYBUG - a Feature-film about a strictly sexual relationship; STADT DES LICHTS a SCI-FI Western; and, A BEAUTIFUL DAY a short movie and extended music video for International Pony. With Patric Catani, Console, Felix Kubin, Puppetmastaz and Namosh she has worked as a singer. Furthermore Angie sang, played bass, lap-steel guitar and foot-pedal-organ simultaneously ,quasi incognito, for the accoustic punk formation Passadena Project in Berlin clubs, theaters and galeries. Inbetween performing her Barbara Brockhaus Secretary Show, Angie has also been working on the production of the animations to her show, for her new album XYZ FREQUENCY, which engages a mix of various music gendres, creating a sound of it’s own. The concept of XYZ FREQUENCY, as an animation show (to be projected and performed with on stage 1:1) and album, is time and mind travel. Thru worlds inbetween life, death and parallel universes Angie slips thru dimensions into numerous characters. Bass clarinets, saxophones, synthesizers, drum-machines, vibraphones, organs, bass, maul-trommeln, electric and eccentric accoustic guitars breed a new BEAT. Human beat-box, supplies the mic with spit-fire. If you thought previous wordworks worked the wit for her cult figure Barbara Brockhaus, this concoction of vocable charm and instrumentation is likely to ignite the toe tapping, knee slapping, wing flapping, night capping, orb zapping, ur-dapping and art crapping with some hand clapping - ever so more! At a certain point durring the animation performance, an accident brings Angie to “the other side” and back. As a result, she is subject to certain entities, one of whom a trickster, who, lures her to underwater worlds (“SEAFOOD IN ATLANTIS”) and teases her thru intergalactic space (“NIP THE GALAXY” and “MA CHERIE, MAJORIE”). Subsequently, Angie becomes a channel for souls, who, never having had the chance to do so in their earthly lives, are able to sing their tales of life’s twists and turns. “Live”. And the spirit of pop-culture takes the stage to introduce: “THE GOLD CHAINED LEOPARD OF THE GHETTO” - a New York City cool operator, 1979, is hiding out in the woods from the N.Y.P.D. ‘cause he’s a tax-free P.I.M.P. ...” “... although the lay low in these woods is no good on my ‘fro, it beats kissin’ Bubba’s ass on Skid Row!” “BEND THE TRUTH IN THE CONFESSION BOOTH” - Berlin, 1930’s. A nun, Sister Louise, is excommunicated after being caught “... the ‘Augenblick’ the light switch went ‘click’! “, under the cloak of another nun. Having left the convent she’s embraced by Jazz nights and cock-tail tango’s of absinth and opium. She tells of “what happens behind the convent walls when night falls” to lesbian writters of the scene and ends up in Paris as a Situationist. “DANCING TARANTELLA TO A MACHINE GUN” - (a mobster ballad) a young mafioso enjoys drinking champagne while entertaining the brides maids at a wedding - having fun. Next it’s “dancing tarantella to a machine gun?”. He has “no fable for hiding under tables” but, yes, he did duck when the bullet struck his silk tux - and “...those boys made a bad choice!” Sinister characters like the “MISTRESS OF GRAND GUIGNOL”, a Serie Noir actress in Weimar Germany serving whippings to “Schleppers” whilst practicing Yoga of the left-hand path, have their debut. Cameo Drexians are encountered in “YES, WE KNOW”. Squat punks are up to date on celebrity gossip reading the “Gala” (the german equivalent to “People’s Magazine”) in “DINGS BUMS BUMST DINGS DA”. Fassbinder scenarios roll with “LONGEST DAYS IN SUMMERTIME”, while “BABOON OF THE LOOM”, “CHERRY BLOSSOM” and “GEISTESBLITZ” supply the listener with and earfull of instrumental hit and miss bliss, that is, if you dig acid-free-jazz. How about some glam. Prowl on an italian disco dance floor “DISCO TELEFONINO” and let your cell phone drop out of a window. Although the music is a cross of orient and occident - it’s flooding with POP! An ocean and a deep-sea voyage down to the octopus’ garden of POP! “HUSTLE A HUSTLER” speaks for itself! As always, Angie Reed wrote and produced nearly all of the songs on her own. However, to avoid the boredom of producing solely lone-ranger, she chose to galvanize some tracks with co-song/author Mario Mentrup (actor, writer and musician see Knochen-Girl, Viva Cide and Ladybird), Namosh (Bungalow Rec), Eric D. Clark (Whirlpool Productions), Mark Boombastik as the Human Beatbox-Machine and the bass-clarinettist Brad Fox. Bernd Jestram (Tarwater), Nikki Woernle ( soundman for the theater group Norton Commander Productions) and of course Patric Catani {EC8TOR, Puppetmastaz, V.I.P. (Very Impossible Person), a.k.a.Candy Hank} partake in the action too as producers. |
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