Schattenfreiheit

SCHATTENFREIHEIT

My fondness for the Queen Anne’s Lace album is echoed in an even better and much more obscure album that is among the greatest treasures that I have rescued from the mud of Katrina: Nachgedanken by Schattenfreiheit. Like Queen Anne’s Lace, Schattenfreiheit is basically a male/female duo. Their album is self-published with amateurish drawings on the cover (including the band’s name written in the shape of a performing porpoise) and is a luscious pop-psychedelic masterpiece that is probably my favorite rock album that is sung in a foreign language (as is apparent from the long words, that would be German). According to Google Translate, the band name means something like “shadowy freedom” (though maybe it is really “freedom from shadows”), while the album name is “after thoughts”; most of the Internet translation devices don’t seem to know either word though.

(August 2010)

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