Dagmar Krause
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Topic: Dagmar Krause
Posted By: memowakeman
Subject: Dagmar Krause
Date Posted: July 10 2008 at 14:41
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Hi,
Lately i´ve been into both Art Bears and News From Babel, Dagmar Krause has a unique and very original voice and i it would be nice to know your opinion about her, like it? dislike it? and in specific in which band/album do you think her work is the finest?
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: July 10 2008 at 14:52
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Cool poll - I'll abstain from voting because i don't have any of the Slapp Happy albums. Of the others, my favorite would probably be In Praise of Learning - she delivers one of the most powerful, emotional vocal performances on "Living in the Heart of the Beast". Might also want to select The World As It Is Today. I'd be suspicious of a vote for Letters Home though - not much singing from her on there, right? It's mostly Wyatt if I recall. edit: Desperate Straights should get a lot of votes. Tough call! |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 10 2008 at 15:02
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I'm liking this poll (and so will Lappy and others) I really like Dagmar Krause a lot. Such excellent, for my tastes, albums listed that it's hard to pick just one. I don't have all the Slapp Happy albums, but I do have all the rest. Incidentally, I'd label Desperate Straights as a Slapp Happy album w/ Henry Cow. For a time, these were the albums I was most into. Was just listening to News From Babel last night after taking a fairly long break from it -- had burnt myself out on it to the point of thinking it wasn't all that I had initially thought it was cracked up to be -- and really enjoyed those albums again. In Praise of Learning is an absolutely terrific album, and has one of my favourite Dagmar songs, and indeed one of my favourite songs period, "Beautiful as the Moon..." For Dagmar's involvement, I would choose one of the Art Bears albums. I like them all, but I'll give it to The World as it is Today. I should check out a lot more albums featuring Dagmar Krause. I really like her in Domestic Stories and Music for Other Occasions. I'd like to get some of her solo, and Tim Hodgkinson's Each in Our Own Thoughts. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: July 10 2008 at 15:34
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Winter Songs for me, although I love every album on your list.
Incidentally, she doesn't really feature on the second News From Babel album - Robert Wyatt is the main vocalist and Sally Potter does a good soundalike on a couple of songs; I think Dagmar only sang on one track. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 11 2008 at 19:09
Krause sings on the last two tracks of Letters Home. I have the compilation, ../album.asp?id=12992 - Sirens & Silences/Work Resumed on the Towers/Letters Home so I tend to think of it as one, "Anno Mirabilis" off Work Resumed on the Tower is my favourite Dagmar track off the compilation. Incidentally, I found a fan page on myspace that should interest some Krause fans here (I really enjoy those tracks): http://www.myspace.com/dagmarkrause%20%20 - http://www.myspace.com/dagmarkrause Considering the limited number of responses, it might be worthwhile to share some myspace links on these bands for those who have yet to really delve into her projects to familairise themselves with some of the music. In fact I'm discovering some new to me music from Slapp Happy (great): http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=303554165 - Art Bears http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=313150190 - Henry Cow http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=66625416 - Slapp Happy ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Syzygy wrote:Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: July 12 2008 at 02:30
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Cool Logan, i will take a listen to her myspace, there is also an album by Hodgkinson where she features and i think it would be interesting to give it a spin. By the way i didn`t vote at first, in a really tough call, and have to mention that i know only songs from Slapp Happy, my vote goes for Wintersongs which actually is my fav Art Bears album, In Praise of Learning is simply an outstanding release and was the album when i know her, but her work in Wintersongs is amazing, beautiful.
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: July 12 2008 at 02:32
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Probably one of the ART BAERS albums--they kinda blend together in my head since I got two of them on one CD.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 12 2008 at 06:38
I only have Desperate Straights  ... I bought this way back when it came out and love Dagmar's voice, (probably one of the most distinctive in Prog), so I have no idea why I never bought more.
I did pick up a Dagmar CD at the Canterbury Fayre a few years back, (thinking that a CD sold at a Prog festival by a Prog label would be...), but it turned out to be a different person (Dagmar Klein - http://www.dagmar41.de/frameset.html - http://www.dagmar41.de/frameset.html ) - a singer heavily influenced by Peter Hammill, so not without worth to me, therefore all was not lost. ------------- What? |
Posted By: mithrandir
Date Posted: July 12 2008 at 13:57
| I just voted Hopes and Fears, cause no one else did |
Posted By: Prejjer
Date Posted: July 12 2008 at 15:05
| The World as it is Today is my favorite album featuring Dagmar. I love her work, she's even one of my favorite musicians. |
Posted By: mithrandir
Date Posted: July 12 2008 at 20:01
| pretty much my fav female vocalist along with diamanda, bjork and elizabeth fraser |
Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: August 09 2008 at 13:45
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Well I think her best work is on Hopes & Fears because it's so diverse, but the best album to feature her is The World As It Is Today. |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 07:29
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Sorry, can't stand her voice.
------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
Posted By: Grimfurg
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 16:18
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"Tell of the birth Tell how war appeared on earth Thunder and herbs Conjugated sacred Verbs Musicians with gongs Fertilised an egg with song Asleep in the sphere her foetus was a Knot of fear She butted with her horn Split an egg and war was Born A miracle of hate She banged her spoon against her plate Upon her spoon this motto wonderfully designed: "Violence completes the partial mind Stacking the bones on the empty aerodrome Tinted turtle green She haunts the slender submarine She shakes her gory locks over the deserted docks Come follow me Out of dark obscurity Follow my torch Pilgrims at the double march Through meadows & seas Abattoirs and Libraries The pilgrims increase Boasting they are led by peace They gut huts with gusto Pillage villages with verve War does what she has to People get what they deserve." Not only a crazy vocal work, but really insane gr1m and insane lyrics. ------------- http://regulab.bandcamp.com/album/vol-i/" rel="nofollow">  |