It is the voice that immediately stands out because it doesn’t sound average. It has a special touch. It is different. Concise. Individual.
The young woman from Linz, who gives her musical existence the name kleinabaoho, has put five songs of love on “Bilder” that are convincing both lyrically and musically. “Sophie”, the assessment of a lost love, is the heart of the album, which is at the beginning. The celebration of love is also a celebration of two people and of what was not good. At the end there is regret. “I’m sorry, Sophie,” sings the queer songwriter, and you just want to hug her.
“Heartbreak has always inspired me a lot,” she says. “This music makes me fall in love, I have a catchy tune from you,” she says in the great “Green Eyes Lie,” and even if she meant it differently, the catchy tune is there. When she makes it clear in the final title track “Pictures” that every love that goes doesn’t have to disappear forever, because the images stay with you, then you agree with her wholeheartedly.
The woman from Linz has a mission. She wants to create a safe place for people who often don’t feel safe enough in everyday life to be themselves, she says. She succeeds in doing this with songs whose lyrics are characterized by a fine choice of words and a high level of empathy. They are songs of the heart and of the people who love the heart, who come, stay – and sometimes go.
kleinabaoho “Pictures EP” (Feber Wolle Records)
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Kasabian „Happenings“ (Columbia)
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Peter Fox „Night Ride“ (feat. Kofee Bean)
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Reinhold Gruber
Local editor Linz
Reinhold Gruber
