a r t i s t : It┤s A Musical
t i t l e : The Music Makes Me Sick
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : Morr Music
g e n r e : Indie
r l s. d a t e : Jul/2008
t r a c k s : 12
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 58,0 MB
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A piano sparkles in the ears, tentatively and softly. Only a
few times later there is an euphoric wind section - and with
itone question: "Oh, why is it so hard to come up with some
art?" The song's title is "Pain Song" and in its laconic irony
that simultaneously has an honest and serious core this first
song on "It's A Musical's" first album reminds of the
narrative strategies of Jens Lekman. Not only because the two
of them are from Sweden, Lekman and Ella Blixt, the latter is
one half of "It's A Musical". Robert Kretzschmar completes the
duo, that got to know each other on a joint tour of Robert's
former band "Lady Boy" and Ella's solo project "Bobby Baby" in
the year of 2006. At that time Ella still lived in Malm÷.
Meanwhile she lives in Berlin, but now Robert studies within
the week in the East German city of Cottbus. So "It's A
Musical" is a band between the places.
And a band between the genres, even if it is not intended to
be that way. "We listen to music quite rarely, especially when
we worked intensely for our album."
It is Norman Nitzsche (Mina, NMFarner, Masha Qrella) who
produced "The Music Makes Me Sick". Or rather: He switched
the regulators to "receive" and Ella Blixt and Robert
Kretzschmar fed the hard disk. They have recorded their
songs once again as they were written in their rooms, in
rough shape, direct, turning somersaults. Four hands, two
voices, that's what it is all about.
Above all: two voices. Two voices with equal rights, voices
that let all the space of the world to one another in order to
embrace each other very closely within the next moment.
And telling us stories constantly as in "Lazy" beginning as a
melancholy piano miniature in order to borrow the whole
keyboard of a Burt Bacharach in a very nonchalant way.
Melodies of longing, while the lyrics tell of the speed with
which one wants to live one's life. Or as in "Circus" where
the organ suddenly plays a fair waltz. What ist that music
abot? "It can be about happy things or bad things or no things
at all."
"It's A Musical" are as rough as subtle, as virtuoso as
amateurish, as storming as pausing, as obvious as
mischievous. "If there would be a guarantee, a guarantee for
harmony" that is what they sing in one of their songs. It is
aimed at the people and still fits to the music, too, whose
smallest as well as biggest common denominator can be
called pop. And sincerity.
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01-Pain Song [04:18]
02-Ball Of Joy [03:47]
03-The Music Makes Me Sick [03:01]
04-What Do I Know [03:54]
05-Lazy [03:13]
06-Dinosaur [03:30]
07-Dudu [04:13]
08-You Make Me Real [04:57]
09-The Circus [03:26]
10-Bad Day [01:45]
11-What All People Know [03:00]
12-Take Off Your T-Shirt [03:46]
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42:50 min