Barbara Morgenstern - Back With BM

Barbara Morgenstern (morning star) one of the primary producers on Gudrun Gut's Berlin-Based electronic-pop label Monika Enterprise released her new album BM last October.
For BM, her fifth album, Barbara wrote beautifully plaintive electronic pop songs. Like usual she incorporates English lyrics into her German writing, it helps a little bit those like me who doesn’t speak the language. The album also includes collaboration with Robert Wyatt (Camouflage).

Web: barbaramorgenstern.de
MySpace: myspace.com/barbaramorgenstern
Label: monika-enterprise.de

Barbara Morgenstern - The Operator .mp3
Barbara Morgenstern - Come To Berlin .mp3 via Comfort Music

Barbara Morgenstern - Aus heiterem himmel .mp3

Barbara Morgenstern - Dr MR .mp3

Cloudland Canyon – Lie In Light

Let’s start 2009 with a record released in April 2008. It’s never too late for a real find.
Kip Uhlhorn and Simon Wojan began collaborating under the moniker Cloudland Canyon in 2000. Both have toiled in various music scenes (hardcore, psych and punk) since the last century. Recent collaborations with Kranky artist Lichens and others have taken the duo into transcendental musical territories. Cloudland Canyon’s Lie in Light is a full length released on Kranky last April.

MySpace: myspace.com/cloudlandcanyon and Web: cloudland-canyon.com

Cloudland Canyon - You & I .mp3 via Pop Matters

Cloudland Canyon - Dambala .mp3

2009

Best wishes for 2009 to you all. May the music brings warmth and joy...

Helios - A Mountain Of Ice .mp3 from Caesura (2008) via Obscure Sound
Also: Helios - Mima.mp3 (read Brainwashed.com)

Web: soundalong.com/helios
MySpace: myspace.com/thesadepicurean
Label: typerecords.com

Bonus: Winter - Carla Olson .mp3

Photo by Leaky Sparrow: Museum Ludwig (Köln)