After tackling American composer Charles Ives and receiving a Grammy nomination for it and after releasing »refuge trio«, which has been awarded with an ECHO Jazz, and a solo album, Theo Bleckmann now takes on the outstanding songbook of British pop recluse Kate Bush.


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THE IRISH TIMES, Cormac Larkin
***** (5 stars)
The title is well-chosen. Avant-garde New York vocalist Theo Bleckman and his band approach the wonderfully bizarre, otherworldly songs of Kate Bush like aliens examining a new life form. Always precise and technically fastidious, Bleckman manages to be both adventurous and faithful to the material, probing each lyric for its meaning, while the talented band, hand-picked from New York’s fertile ‘downtown’ scene, create a spacey, ethereal backdrop which invests what are already extraordinary songs – Running Up That Hill, Cloudbusting, The Man With The Child in his Eyes – with a wide-eyed sense of wonder and discovery. It’s as if they landed in Kate Bush’s back garden and said “Take me to your Lieder!”. And its all wrapped in one of Winter and Winter’s gorgeously lo-tech Music Edition covers, which laugh in the face of downloads and make ‘albums’ worth owning again.