Stunning avant-garde masterpiece

Stunning avant-garde masterpiece

A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (Audio CD)

Customer Review

The in this country completely unjustly unknown singer / songwriter Josephine Foster published "A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing" after two already excellent plates a little masterpiece. A native of Chicago singer who broke off training as an opera singer, here presented 7 new interpretations of romantic German art songs by Brahms, Schubert, Schumann and Wolf to texts by Eichendorff, Goethe and Möhrike.

But if you expect a classical album is sadly mistaken. Quite the contrary, it is in "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" to an avant-garde genius. The original compositions are deprived of their traditional instruments and in a shrill harp and droning guitar (Played by Brian Goodman, already with Foster on "All the Leaves Are Gone" worked) underlaid.

Culminating finally the almost 12-minute version of Schumann's treatise to Eichendorffs "in a castle". Gigantic Acoustic depths and endless melancholy exploring this song is perhaps one of the most signal musical of the decade.

A real album Pearl, a certainly challenging listening experience, but which is ultimately rewarded with a visit to previously unexplored soundscapes.

Good as always 2 Rank: 5/5
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12 Unmissable Rank: 5/5
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not bad but 18 2 Rank: 2/5
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