Exceptional artist Soap&Skin with a unique cover collection: 'TORSO'.
With 'TORSO', Soap&Skin is releasing its fourth studio and first pure cover album. Anja Plaschg alias Soap&Skin has always had a special talent for reinterpreting songs with a very unique approach. When the Danube Festival invited her in 2022 to perform all the cover pieces she had created over the years in one evening, she came up with the idea of a permanent collection - which is now being released as the album 'TORSO'.
Covers could also be heard on the previous albums 'Narrow' (2012) and 'From Gas to Solid / You Are My Friend' (2018) without being immediately recognized as such. Simply because "it feels good to escape from myself," says Plaschg. She likes covers - quite literally as camouflage and hiding place. She first recorded the radio hit 'Voyage, Voyage', originally by Desireless, in 2011 for the soundtrack to Sebastian Meise's film 'Stillleben'. Since then it has been part of her live repertoire and has grown with her over the years. It finds its place on 'TORSO' as a Lifetime version. Her biggest hit to date, 'Me and the Devil', which has reached an audience of millions thanks to several viral social media moments, is also a cover.
The first single, the album opener 'Mystery of Love', originally released by Sufjan Stevens, newly arranged with French horn and trombone, gently immerses us in the sound world of 'TORSO'. "I hear a song," she adds, "and feel that there is something else I would like to add. Then I don't listen to the original anymore. Sometimes not for years. I record the songs from memory.” She hasn't heard 'The End' by The Doors for over seven years. An old favorite song, a little time capsule.
