Language barrier or not, their tone didn’t sit well with any adults around me and rather than try to explain why it was I liked them I’d just leave the room. Her eyes cut through your defenses in no time at all, straight to the heart with a voice you’d have to be dead not to be moved by. ![]() ![]() Even with the odd airing of “Matador” on MTV they stuck out their alien looking front woman Anja Huwe certainly didn’t tone it down with her vocals or her looks, to call her riveting would be an undrerstatement. GEMM would later come to the rescue in the 90s when some unwitting dupe sold me a CD version of it which I guard zealously.Īnother factor was that the majority of this album was sung in German, which obviously limited the band’s appeal here in the States. No chains carried their work even though a remarkable number of employees at them knew who this band were. To find this beauty outside of Europe back in the day was a coup, I only managed to locate a cassette copy of it (which I wore out long, long ago) at a local shop which specialized in imports. ![]() ![]() Now you probably are wondering why it is you haven’t heard of this one or perhaps why even in 2017 it remains out of print, here’s the main reason: distribution. Two albums into their career, one of 4AD’s hidden gems Xmal Deutschland jumped ship and released via their own label -fittingly named Xile- a true masterwork of the era: 1987’s ‘Viva’.
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