Time Mentally and Timeless

30 years ago there was even a short musical wave called the one Pop-Jazz. Sade languished 'Smoth Operator', Matt Bianco groovten 'Half the minute' and Vaya Con Dios säuselsten 'Don`t cry for me' to seductive Latino beats. These bounced the Yuppis their dünnnen leather ties and sipping drinks Caribbean. Someone, however at that time also there was never really doing was, are Everything But The Girl. In 1984 the duo released their debut album 'EDEN', which was ignored by the buyers. Today incomprehensible, the typical, yet timeless are few records from the 80s.
10 years later invented clever marketers the chill-out lounge for downbeat. The music was even more slowed down and to Red Bull was drunk in cans and Cafe Latte in huge glasses. Everything But The Girl had in this period (1995) their first and only hit - 'Missing'. The song was great, yet a misunderstanding. Because people saw it as just the next trip hop one-hit wonder. And while the world wondered where EBTH came the shy duo dived again.
Meanwhile muffelt trip-hop even a little well worn and no one wants anyway in today uncool 80s have been there. Only Sade makes a comeback tour every 10 years. 'EDEN' by Everything But The Girl has now withstood all trends and times and acts today as fresh as the first day. The songs of 'EDEN' are melodic folk pop safer, fueled by Ben Watts with his flamenco guitar infected, which flirts coquettishly with the Brazilian bossa nova. These sings Tracy Horn. What's sing. Her voice varies from smoky jazz singer a dingy bar, for a crystal-clear Engel Musical Revue. When Tracy gloomy breathed 'I dont want Excuses - I Want Your Love' and I want it now ', then break even been a macho resistance.
I fell the most insignificant of all the singers, when I first heard 'Protection' of massive Attack, which refined Tracy with her voice. That was in 1994. Since then, I try to get hold of their works. The duo Everything But The Girl has long since evaporated. The first four albums were now reissued, in neat packaging and ordinary bonus tracks. Including the masterful debut. Climb aboard and discover EDEN and Everything But The Girl 'rather 30 years late than never. Because if Madonna 'The Queen of Pop' is really 'then Tracy Horn Snow-White is. And we all know how this story ends.
Andi Bauer