Claudia Brücken: “Hi”

The latest song to be released as a single from the Claudia Brücken album she made with producer Stephen Hague, The Lost Are Found, is a song written by David Bowie, ‘Everyone Says “Hi”‘. It was the only single available in the U.K. from Bowie’s 2002 Heathen album. Claudia first thought of singing the song months ago, when Bowie was to some extent less present, a little more in the shadows, than he is now. She wanted to cover the song not least because its themes -loss, mourning, and, essentially, how a great, bitter-sweet sad song can somehow, in its presentation, its sensitivity, the overall sense of love whatever the circumstances- fitted well with the sequence of melancholic but inspirational songs chosen for The Lost Are Found. It was also a form of recommendation, very much confirmed recently with the unexpected appearance of Bowie’s ‘Where Are We Now,’ how Bowie’s later, not so widely known songs can be as powerful and resonant as his more obvious early classics.

To buy your personal copy of The Lost Are Found go to our There(there) shop or iTunes
signed cd http://tinyurl.com/d9cb6uc
limited and signed vinyl http://tinyurl.com/cp5j5qy
download http://tinyurl.com/c8n3f9n

Show the world if you are lost or found, or both, and how much you love the latest, wonderful, critically acclaimed, appreciated by the writers she has covered (who have heard their songs sung) Claudia Brücken album, by wearing the specially designed and deeply stylish ‘Lost are Found’ MMXIII tour t-shirt, in sizes that will work for boys or girls.

The front features the haunting ‘Lost are Found’ rowing boat, just waiting to take you wherever you want to go, and on the back at the top, there’s Claudia’s signature; if you ever get to meet her before or after one of her shows, she’ll sign over the signature to make it for real.

For your Lost are Found t-shirt, in your size, please go to our There(there) shop.

Claudia Brücken – Whispering Pines, taken from the album The Lost Are Found (released 5th November 2012)

Whispering Pines is a song from the second Band album (1969), also known as the Brown album, written by Robbie Robertson and Richard Manuel. The song reminds us with its images of the forest as a lonely, sunless place, where the seasons change in their own way, in their own time, that the first three Band albums were written while the group were working and living amongst the forested hills and wooded mountains around the town of Woodstock, New York. Pines surround Woodstock, but this is a song about pines near the sea, on the edge of the wilder unknown, with waves crashing in, seagulls crying, foghorns sounding through the night, creating a deep, timeless sense of loss, and loneliness. The end of the song, where there the two singers Levon Helm and Richard Manuel perform a kind of abandoned gospel duet, reaches its resolution with the words ‘the lost are found’, which has been used by Claudia Brücken as the title of her new album. The Lost Are Found by Claudia Brücken is a collection of songs reflecting spiritual turbulence written and sung by people who like Richard Manuel have a certain ‘hurt in their voice.’ A collection of less well known pop songs and discreet classics that in their own delicate way mirror the anguish and outcast determination of the blues.

Taking on a song that could surely only be sung by the masterful Manuel is a brave thing to do, but it was a song that seemed important to cover not only because it gave her album its title but also because it richly symbolises the atmosphere of the album, and its own overall sense of loss, and isolation. The Lost Are Found contains songs set inside dreams, and lonely rooms, in empty houses, in the shadows, in the middle of dark woods, inside hostile cities, under a cold, cold sun. The song supremely demonstrates the ability of the great song to investigate and celebrate the nature of the soul, and even heal it when it has been wounded. Whispering Pines is acknowledged as one of the saddest songs ever written, and yet has the gorgeous quality of being able to cheer you up and calm you down – exactly the aim of Claudia and her producer Stephen Hague when putting together the album, to capture the exquisite experience of how a haunting, heartbreaking and somehow homeless ballad can make you feel better about your own life, help you deal with personal disapointments even tragedy, and face up to troubling times with an optimistic strength.

The video was filmed on purpose in an empty forest packed with hidden secrets, near a deserted English coastline, where something is about to happen, and was directed by Martin Gooch and Ray Moody.

For more info please go to Claudia’s personal website at http://www.claudiabrucken.co.uk
and check out her own label and shop at There(there) http://www.theremusic.com

To buy your personal copy of The Lost Are Found go to our There(there) shop or iTunes
signed cd http://tinyurl.com/d9cb6uc
limited and signed vinyl http://tinyurl.com/cp5j5qy
download http://tinyurl.com/c8n3f9n

You can catch Claudia Brücken live early 2013! Secure your tickets here:
http://www.theremusic.com/live-dates/claudia-brucken-the-lost-are-found-tour-2013

Claudia is very pleased to announce her tour dates for March 2013.

MARCH 2013

Tues 12th – Glasgow – ABC2 – tickets
Wed 13th – Birmingham – Academy 3 – tickets
Fri 15th – Manchester – Academy 3 – tickets
Sat 16th – London – Borderline – tickets
Sun 17th – Brighton – Concorde – tickets

Claudia’s new album, ‘The Lost are Found’, is ready. She has worked with famed producer Stephen Hague (New Order, Pet Shop Boys, OMD, Robbie Robertson) on an exhilerating collection of intensely atmospheric songs by other people. These ‘other people’ are some of the favourite writers and artists of both Claudia and Stephen, expressing their particular obsession with the history of the pop song. Some might say it is definitely up there with the classic albums Claudia has been involved with from Propaganda’s A Secret Wish to Onetwo’s Instead. The album is both a celebration of the mood, majesty and mystery of a great pop song, and also a journey along an imaginary coast line of an imaginary country, a soundtrack to a view out to sea, and the thoughts of what lies ahead.

Singer and performer Brücken with producer and arranger Hague cover unexpected songs by the very well known – Bowie, the Band, Bee Gees, Electric Light Orchestra – songs she was always destined to sing – Pet Shop Boys, Julee Cruise – and songs by the less well known that should be well known – Dubstar, Lilac Time and Stina Nordenstam – and she sings them as though they are a reflection of her own views and voice, and an inspiring, revealing part of her own story. ‘The Lost are Found’ is a brilliant anthology of melancholy pop sung by one of pop’s most ingenious interpreters and produced by one of the great pop producers.

Please find ‘The Lost Are Found’ in our webstore, as cd or as an extra special, limited, signed vinyl.
Catch Claudia live soon, keep an eye on her live page.

Best know for his albums for ZTT such as The Beating of Wings, Poppy has a unique body of work. This includes Chamber Operas for The Royal Opera House and The National Theatre and experimental approaches to musically driven theatre made with the seminal Impact Theatre Co-op.

Shiny Floor Shiny Ceiling is trans-genre and draws on his long term creative partnership with Julia Bardsley as well as collaborations with Claudia Brücken, James Gilchrist and the Portuguese singer Bernado Devlin. Shiny Floor Shiny Ceiling attempts a negotiation between electro pop, classical lieder and contemporary fado. Mixed by Paul Humphreys, the album is now available to pre-order at www.andrewpoppy.co.uk

For a limited time only, all copies will be signed by Claudia and can also be personalised as per your instruction via there@theremusic.com. If you wish for your copy NOT to be signed and left in shrink wrap you can also instruct us accordingly via email. All orders placed now will be shipped to be received on or around the release date of 23rd July 2012.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a PAL formatted DVD set to Region 0, so please make sure that you have compatible equipment BEFORE making you purchase.

You can find the trailer of the DVD in full HD here on YouTube.

In 2011, Claudia Brücken, the first lady of cinematic electronic pop, was joined by a host of special guests to perform her highly anticipated live show ‘This Time: It’s Claudia Brücken’ at London’s The Scala. The show was filmed in its entirety and will be released on DVD / CD to our own There(there) shop, various other shops and online, under the title ‘This Happened’ on 23rd July 2012.

The concert is a sensational celebration of Claudia’s life in pop music from Propaganda to Onetwo and features a host of brilliant one off collaborations. The line-up reads like a who’s who of avant pop and includes Ralf Dörper and Susanne Freytag of Propaganda; Paul Humphreys of Onetwo and OMD; Andy Bell of Erasure; Glenn Gregory and Martyn Ware of Heaven 17 and British minimalist composer Andrew Poppy.

The show will be repeated live at Bush Hall, London on 19th July 2012. Buy your tickets Here(here), Hear(hear)!

You can also find the trailer in full HD here on YouTube.

Buy your tickets here, on sale from Friday 25th May.