Blackbird's Echo

VINYL FORMAT. Blackbird's Echo is the title of the fifth full length album by Cologne, Germany based Niobe. Yvonne Cornelius, the composer behind Niobe prepared many of the pieces on this album in 2007 in her home studio in Cologne. With the help of Tom Steinle (Tomlab) the production and recordings were realized in the reknowned Studio G by Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu, Home and Garden) in Brooklyn, New York. Across several weeks most of the songs you can hear on this album were arranged, recorded and mixed down. The finishing touches were given in Cologne, once Yvonne was fully installed again in her home studio - contributing once more all those little tweaks so many Niobe albums have carried before and that make a big part of the underlying magic of her work.

The difference of these new recordings, all of them impregnanted once more with Yvonne's breathtaking and singular vocals, lies within the fact that Blackbird's Echo adds a new element to the exotic, strangely artificial Niobe character we know from previous albums: now large instrumental parts are balancing out the electronic sound design with its many tricks and enchantments.

The result is colorful and experimental, singer-songwriter oriented but very audacious, eccentric and rhythmically complex and shows Niobe's full potential in a world where dreams still play a big part of the awakening in the memory of Blackbird's Echo.