Codes, by Anja Huwe

Codes

by Anja Huwe

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Kevlar I was a huge fan of Xmal Deutschland in 80-thies and 90-thies.
Anja was my first "music love". I'm still in love. Very good album! Favorite track: Rabenschwarz.

rs1972 Very good album. Congrats!

The mastering (of the download) is too loud. Heavily compressed. IMHO (not far away from) unlistenable. WHAT a pity!

suzygen Astounding return. This is an album I will treasure for a long time, Anja is back.

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1.	Skuggornas 04:21	buy track
2.	Rabenschwarz 03:18	buy track
3.	Pariah 03:49	buy track
4.	Exit 04:16	buy track
5.	O Wald 03:42	buy track
6.	Zwischenwelt 04:26	buy track
7.	Sleep With One Eye Open 03:43	buy track
8.	Living In The Forest 03:13	buy track
9.	Hideaway 03:48	buy track

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After Xmal Deutschland’s success with four albums on cult labels such as 4AD, Huwe abandoned music to pursue her visual art career. But leaving her legacy in the past was not so easy.

Invited by her long-time friend Mona Mur, Huwe reconsidered her decades-long hiatus from music and decided to join Mur in her studio in Berlin. Together, they worked for a year and a half, composing, performing and producing the tracks from scratch, which would eventually become the album ‘Codes’. Integral to the overall sound experience was the input of Manuela Rickers who added her famed signature guitar style.

Initially inspired by the diary entries of Moshe Shnitzki, who, at the age of 17, left his home in 1942 to live in the cavernous White Russian forests as a partisan, Codes is about the human experience and what extremes can do to an individual. "The result is a poetic, musical cosmos that encompasses the following themes: forest, fear, pain, loss, violence, and loneliness but also beauty, longing, hope and the will to survive,” Huwe explains. These thematic extremities cause an erraticism to Codes- a passing thunderstorm, a cyclonic burst of nature’s force - but one that exudes anticipation amidst the chill.

With elegant production by Mur and Huwe and mixing and mastering by Jon Caffery (Joy Division, Gary Numan, Einstürzende Neubauten) epic builds crash and disseminate, the sleek synthesized drones of sound even feel claustrophobic at times.

Xmal Deutschland, now marked as forerunners of the post-punk movement, were never complacent but consistently ravenous in their attack throughout the 1980s. Huwe’s return is no different. Unexpected but long overdue, Codes is that missing page from post-punk’s history books, the freshly splayed paint across the decades-old canvas - it is the product of the tireless will to survive on her own terms.

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released March 8, 2024

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