Andrea Schroeder (singer)

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Andrea Schroeder (born in East Westphalia) is a German pop singer and songwriter from Berlin , who is known for her dark alto voice and her 'pop noir'.

Life

Schroeder grew up in East Westphalia and trained as a graphic designer after graduating from high school . She began modeling through a photographer friend, which was so successful at first that she temporarily moved to Munich at the request of her agency. She turned to singing when she temporarily lost her voice after an operation. After their recovery, she first made a classical vocal training, devoted herself to gospel singing, and later began to write her own songs. In 2007 she put a few of them on her MySpace page on the Internet and gathered a fan community there. In 2012 her debut album Blackbird came out on the German independent label Glitterhouse from Beverungen , produced by Chris Eckman ( Walkabouts ). It contains ten pieces, mostly from my own pen, nine of which are in English, only one in German.

When her second album Where The Wild Oceans End was released, reviews were published in German Rolling Stone, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Stern-Magazin, comparing her singing with Marlene Dietrich and Nico and the sound with Nick Cave and Velvet Underground . Her German-language version of David Bowie's Heroes , recorded in the Hansastudios in Berlin , received particular attention, as did her song Ghosts of Berlin .

The reviewers wrote something similar about their third album Void , which again came out at Glitterhouse at the end of August 2016. The eleven tracks are almost all original compositions by her and her band around guitarist Jesper Lehmkuhl. The album was produced by Ulf Ivarsson ( Joakim Thåström , Sivert Hoyem ) with Andrea Schroeder and Jesper Lehmkuhl. Kristoph Hahn ( Swans ) and Pelle Ossler (Thåström; Sällskapet) joined as guest musicians .

On each of their albums there is a song with the lyrics by the American beat poet Charles Plymell , on Void the song Black Sky with the lyrics by New Yorker Rob Plath, a student of Allen Ginsberg , on Blackbird the song Blackberry Wine with the lyrics by Gary Heffern (The Penetrators).

In 2014, Schroeder appeared on The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Session Project album Axels and Sockets , a collaboration of artists such as Iggy Pop , Nick Cave , Blondie and Mick Harvey in honor of Jeffrey Lee Pierce .

Schroeder mostly does the artwork for her albums, tour posters and videos himself . In their band, the Danish guitarist Jesper Lehmkuhl , the British-Australian bassist Dave Allen , the Australian drummer Chris Hughes ( Fatal Shore ) and the Italian Maurizio Vitale, the Belgian violinist Catherine Graindorge and the Berlin keyboardist Mike Strauss (Les Hommes Sauvages) play. On the stage Schroeder plays an Indian hand harmonium and the shrutibox ; also this a parallel to Christa Päffgen, who became known as Nico with The Velvet Underground . Jesper Lehmkuhl is also involved in the development of the songs.

Andrea Schroeder lived in Copenhagen for a few years and moved to Berlin in autumn 2011 .

Discographic Notes

under his own name
  • Blackbird , album (Glitterhouse, 2012)
  • Where The Wild Oceans End , Album (Glitterhouse, 2014) - with Jesper Lehmkuhl (g), Dave Allen (b), Chris Hughes (dr), Catherine Graindorge (v)
  • Void , album (Glitterhouse, 2016)
as a band member or guest musician
  • Strange Dreams by The Stars And The Madness (Andrea Schroeder, Jesper Lehmkuhl and Dave Allen) (Fear Of Speed, 2013)
  • Kisses For My President on Axels and Sockets by The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Session Project
  • Disparition , album with the Swedish band Sällskapet ( BMG , 2018)

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ New album by Andrea Schroeder: "Void" - Pop Noir distributes the emptiness , Deutschlandradio Kultur from August 26, 2016, accessed September 11, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Die Geisterseherin , Berliner Zeitung of March 5, 2014, accessed September 11, 2016
  3. ↑ Andrea Schroeder presents her album "Blackbird" in the Pantheon Casino , General-Anzeiger from April 1, 2013, accessed September 11, 2016
  4. ↑ Andrea Schroeder: Dark voice, gloomy songs , Frankfurter Rundschau from February 3, 2014, accessed September 11, 2016
  5. Jump up ↑ Where The Wild Oceans End - Unheimlich zuversichert, review on fairaudio.de from September 2014, accessed September 11, 2016
  6. ↑ Andrea Schroeder: "Void" ( Memento from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), MDR from August 29, 2016, accessed September 11, 2016
  7. ↑ Andrea Schroeder: Welcome to the inevitable , review by Void in Der Standard from August 30, 2016, accessed September 11, 2016
  8. ↑ Review of Void , German Rolling Stone, August 25, 2016, accessed September 11, 2016
  9. ↑ laut.de biography Andrea Schroeder , accessed September 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Schroeder, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century