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Krazy: Singer, songster, bohemian. Living in Cologne, at home with the word, on the move with music. In 1993, she took to the road with Dylan songs, and in 2008 began her stage apprenticeship with Peter Sarach (RAUSCH, Cowboys on Dope). In 2010, she launched her first solo program in German. Countless performances in pubs, cabarets, and theaters later, she met master songwriter Danny Dziuk in 2018. After an initial collaboration, he produced her album "Soap Bubble Machine," which received much praise and was longlisted for the 2021/1 German Record Critics' Award.
To the album IN BOOTS
Five years after the last album, Seifenblasenmaschine, comes Krazy's vinyl release in boots. Not formally a long player, but still a small album that bridges great distances—chronological, biographical, contextual, and musical.
Street and showbiz experiences, insights and reflections condensed into songs of a peculiar career between the pedestrian zone and the theater stage. A psychoanalysis of wearing boots. A celebration of mourning and life in hymn-like harmony. A sharply rhymed protest against the attribution and determination of identity, against false expectations of person and program. Krazy's typical poetic explorations of figures of speech, concepts, and their applicability in changing settings.
The songs and singer are brought to life by two collegial producers:
Danny Dziuk, who previously provided instrumental input for "Soap Bubble Machine," shares the role this time with Karl Neukauf, who interprets three of the seven tracks with his own repertoire of sounds and references. The instrumentation and interpretations of the song material are diverse overall: rumbling drums, raucous percussion, electric guitar storms and organs, jazz elements, floating atmospheres, elegiac piano and brass sections, as well as dry solo unplugged presentations and a remix: all juxtaposed on a wild little album that doesn't fit into any one genre, but precisely for that reason could spread joy in the hidden gem niche.
From coming and going to staying: a state of affairs, a retrospective, a retrospective. One songster, two producers, no genre. New songs that draw on old stories, old songs in new versions. In magnificent soundscapes, solo on stage, in a floating remix in between: various forms of substance. Ambiguous, like the path sung about. From the pedestrian zone to the stage to the vinyl record. On a few reliable lines. Barefoot and in boots.
The trade press about Krazy + “bubble machine”
"Her lyrics have the rare potential to entertain, to touch, to be intelligent and funny, and touching and emotional all at the same time. 'You have to get that right,' I thought when I first heard 'Soap Bubble Machine' (...) And when you experience Krazy live, as a truly original guitarist and singer, after three songs you get the feeling that she's no longer sitting alone on stage. Because her lyrics create images, live and linger, and eventually stand to her right and left, behind her and at the front of the stage, and she pulls the strings and the lyrics retreat. (...) What's crazy is that these songs remain absolutely strong and vibrant in both formats, orchestrated and solo, regardless of whether they're carried by piano and wind instruments or just Krazy's acoustic guitar (...). Krazy is simply an impressive musician.
Lothar Trampert, Guitar & Bass January 2022 (record tip)
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"A wonderfully offbeat and timeless album has emerged from the collaboration between the "cold-blooded" Krazy and the wily arrangement wizard Danny Dziuk. A distillate of the finest that the gutters of pop have to offer: (...) Quirky melodic arches hang like neon garlands over psycho-folk sonic backyards. Snarling basses, bone-like percussion, and dappled piano blues miniatures inimitably showcase the quirky, comical seriousness of Krazy's poetry. A poetic and musical underground miracle without equal!"
City magazine Schnüss (Bonn) / Record of the Month 07/2021
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"Krazy's lyrics are very unique. She takes a basic motif (...), associates and plays with it, turns it over and over, illuminates it from all sides, and then—this distinguishes her approach from mere association for the sake of effect—feels and formulates a truth that unites emotion and intellect. Only then is the song finished."
Frank Schwarzberg, trailer-ruhr.de February 2025
