Haunting, beautiful, and as pure and honest as music can get. The story of how Sibylle Baier's Colour Green came to be is almost as touching as the music itself. Recorded back in the early 1970s on a home reel-to-reel system, the songs on Color Green were never intended for anyone other than the artist to hear. In fact, this album wasn't published until 2006, when her son, Robby, compiled all of the songs on CD as gifts for family members. As luck would have it, one of the discs ended up in the hands of J Mascis (of Dinosaur Jr fame), who was so impressed with the rawness of the recordings that he passed it along to a label that wasted no time in its release. Though it is not Sibylle who is the lucky one in this story, it is all of us. One gets the sense in listening to this album that this music was created alone in a dimly lit room with no other sound than the flicker of a candle and the hiss of a recorder, and all of that ambiance is captured in the sound of the guitar and the lyrics; this is the sound of a woman bearing her soul privately and provocatively. From the moment you hit play on "Tonight", Colour Green draws you in like a child in awe of his mother, staring up at her from the floor and wondering if there are any more beautiful women in the world than her, though you're sure that there are not. This album is as close as many people may ever get to being serenaded. Do yourself a favor: Turn out the lights, get a glass of red wine, sit on the couch, put your head back and your feet up, and push play. You won't be disappointed.Highlights: "Tonight" and "Colour Green"
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