OXBLOOD RED VINYL
Unexpected, but long overdue: "Codes" - the solo album by ANJA HUWE - the return of the "Ice Queen". The internationally successful band XMAL DEUTSCHLAND with its singer and front woman ANJA HUWE released four albums and numerous singles in the 1980s on renowned British labels such as 4AD, Beggar's Banquet and on their own label X-ile. The band recorded four John Peel sessions on BBC 1 and toured worldwide. XMAL DEUTSCHLAND, initially an "all girl band", were role models for the emerging Gothic/Darkwave scene and inspiration for young female musicians to pursue their goals self-determinedly and consistently. After the band broke up in the early 1990s, HUWE went new ways as a visual artist. Her main theme of "synesthesia" - hearing colors and seeing sounds - has been a common thread through her artistic work ever since. She exhibits her large-format pictures worldwide. HUWE works in an interdisciplinary manner and is at home on various media levels. But music always remained an important part of her creative life. Since the band's breakup, HUWE has been followed by the "Legend Xmal Deutschland". However, she always rejected the constant requests from all over the world to become musically active again. MONA MUR, musician, composer, producer and long-time friend, was able to convince ANJA HUWE to give music a second chance in 2020. They finally started their intensive collaboration in MUR's Berlin studio KATANA. Together MUR and HUWE composed and produced the songs for the upcoming album “Codes”. The atmospheric crossover sound was shaped not only by HUWE's unmistakable voice and MUR's beats and soundscapes, but also by the input of XMAL DEUTSCHLAND guitarist MANUELA RICKERS with her unique starting point for "Codes" - texts by Moshe Shnitzki, who died in 1942 at the age of 17 years ago he left his parents' home to survive as a partisan in the deep Belarusian forests.
