SIBYLLE BAIER - Colour Green LP

In a particularly dark and moody period of Sibylle's young life, a friend Claudine dragged her out from under the bed and took her on a road trip to Strasbourg, France ending up across the Alps in Genoa, Italy.

Upon the return from this trip Sibylle felt her spirits renewed and she set out to write the song Remember the Day, grateful for being alive. The songs on Colour Green are intimate portraits of life's sad and fragile beauty.

The singer-songwriter recorded the songs that would make up her lone album between 1970 and 1973 on reel-to-reel in her apartment in Germany, but they went unheard until decades later when her son gave a CD-R to J Mascis, which eventually led to the album's 2006 release.

Fifteen years on from that release, Baier's intimate fingerpicked vignettes have taken on a life of their own, while the artist herself eschews any sort of spotlight.

Although the record garnered comparisons to Vashti Bunyan and Karen Dalton, it stands alone – exuding quiet confidence and pure, unfettered beauty.