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Looking Outside My Window

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Released: May 28, 2011

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Looking Outside My Window
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Red On Blue - Golden Summer Garden
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Red On Blue - Summer Feeling
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Chain
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Nouvelle Vague
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Bernadette Kube & Red On Blue

An impressive debut from the Berliner singer-songwriter. „Looking Outside My Window“ is a collection of ten intimate songs – sometimes contemplative and melancholic, other times light and playful. They are played with sensitivity and attention to nuances by a musician whose vocal abilities match her talent as a songwriter. Red On Blue is the name of the band which formed around the Berlin-based singer-songwriter Bernadette Kube. Their music is rooted in jazz, and you can feel it: the subtle and tasteful arrangements and the high production quality goes far beyond that which is common among pop productions . Kube's songs deal with separations and being left behind, with transitory moments of happiness, the exhilaration of a summer's day or the healing power of loneliness. „I often process personal things in my songs,“ Bernadette says. Maybe that can explain the intimate character of the compositions: titles such as the yearning „I’m Longing For You,“ or „Chain“, a groovy song which tells of the bitter pain of separation. „Looking Outside My Window“ spans a wide musical spectrum: from hints of trip hop and R&B to airy folk and sunny reggae. Some lines of the choruses are reminiscent of French chansons, such as the potential hit „Nouvelle Vague", and some pieces can hardly deny their jazz origins. All of this is carried by Kube's charismatic, dynamic voice, which can be both powerful and soft, serious and playful, cheerful and dreamy – according to what the theme of the song calls for. The high points of the CD are the moments when the singer lets her voice soar, when her singing turns into pure sound, which goes straight into the heart of the listener.“ Martin Wolf, music journalist

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Genre: Folk / Jazz / Other
Location Berlin, De
Profile Views: 75955
Last Login: 5/27/2012
Member Since 2/1/2007
Website red-on-blue.de
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Type of Label Indie
Bio
Red On Blue, a band that stands for lively melodies, underlain with sound structures from Jazz, Folk and other musical areas. Red on Blue present an urban-melancholy sound which you can feel in your heart and your legs. The singer-songwriter Bernadette Kube was born in East Berlin as the child of two artists. Her mother was a classic dancer, her father did pantomime. Most of her turbulent childhood, she spent in the theatre or on the Baltic Sea. Was it the mute art of her parents which drove her to the microphone? The family is still puzzling it over. She did not start singing secretly in the bath, but out loud in Toms Blues Band, a wild Blues group, whose drummer repeatedly fell into his instrument – tactfully indeed but drunk as a skunk. After this excessive time, she recovered with Jazz'n Kids, an old time jazz band. The specific tonality of the older men was thoroughly charming but unalterable. She learnt to be brave and dutiful – musically of course. She devotedly eavesdropped on stories told with the wisdom of age, and she was allowed to go on tour to Italy twice. It is not only her love of handmade pasta which has stood the test of time. She is still firm friends with the older men. It is the film director Michael Schorr („Schultze gets the blues"), who challenged her and brought her into contact with the world of jazz once again. In a short film he cast her as his protagonist's „the singing girlfriend". The difficult but appealing art of interpreting standards was part of her programme from then on. She joined the Swinghouse Jazz Band of Wolfgang Riemer. There she learnt how to sing alongside brass and stand her ground against wild pianists. „What, that was too fast? You aint seen nothing yet girl!" At the same time, she studied dramatics and New German Literature in Berlin and Paris. During her studies already, she founded the Bernadette Kube Quartett. By now, she had more than a dozen standards in her repertoire. She appeared in relevant Berlin clubs like A-Trane, b-flat, Grüner Salon, Quasimodo, Schlot and Zapata. When a graphic artist and equally incorruptible jazz expert she was friends with shouted "write something of your own!" in a heated discussion, she took it to heart. And in fact, she started plotting her own songs. Her mentor Carlo Inderhees recommended a Berlin "boy wonder" as an arranger. She went to him and stood astonished next to a nineteen year old high school graduate, who got to work immediately. By now, Frieder Schmidt studies composition in Hannover and as a composer and arranger is an essential part of Red On Blue, which Bernadette Kube founded in 2006. Just a year later, they contributed two songs to the sound track of the film "Schröders wunderbare Welt" (Schröder's wonderful world) by director Michael Schorr – a success, which Red On Blue owe to their stylistic experiment in the area of trip hop and downbeat. With Red On Blue Bernadette Kube regularly appears on the Berlin club scene. Gigs with striking large instrumentation were interspersed with duo appearances in an intimate atmosphere. She searches and collects. She seems to be on a journey. She really enjoys this work.
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Bernadette Kube-Voc., Hein Schneider-Piano, Marcus Klossek-Guitar, Jan Lange-Bass, Sascha Bachmann-Drums
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„Timeless songs, a high-quality album (…) which will enthrall classical music listeners as well as jazz fans.“ Joachim Holzt-Edelhagen, Digitale Jazz-Zeitung (digital jazz magazine)

„Ten songs with lively melodies, grooving rhythms, folk and indie influences and the warm voice of the Berliner singer floating over all of them.“ (Jazzpodium) ..