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SONIG 096LP
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God knows enough has been written about Workshop. This group has been around since 1985, and what they did was this: musically quite limited, they made the music they wanted to hear, but in an ingenious way. Some played the instruments skillfully and others not so much. Seven records were recorded, which, with the exception of the second LP, are still more than worth listening to today. Are they in danger of being forgotten? Yes and no. What is worth listening to here has often been banned. One must bring it out again. Make attentive. Against the forgetting. These impetuous songs -- just let them get close to you again and listen to them in a new context and forget all the smart-ass talk that was said about them. That means to put the self with all its reality entanglements in the pillory. This is of course not only pleasant. Bravo!
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BLUE 007CD
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"Workshop's first US release in their decade-plus existence. 'You and your physicalness is loved by a dropout' is their translation of the title. On this, their fifth album, Workshop is the duo of Stephan Abry and Kai Althoff, currently divided between Hamburg and Cologne. With the current record, they have cut their cloth into shorter sections (the previous one, Meiguiweisheng Xiang, consisted of three long pieces), emphasized lyric- and songwriting, and marshaled a distinctive palette of sounds that favors nylon-string guitar, harp, synthesizer, sitar, and overlays of drum kit and drum machine. Their European label Sonig (home of Mouse on Mars and Lithops) refers to is as 'krautfolk.'"
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