Workshop - Es liebt Dich und Deine Kšrperlichkeit, ein Ausgeflippter
CD/LP Sonig 19, 2001

"Es liebt dich und deine Kšrperlichkeit, ein Ausgeflippter." is a cleverly thought out, unconventional, ambivalent, German language Rock album, geared against the apolitical sloth which besets our minds. Having already released two albums on the Indie label Finlayson and a further three on Ladomat, Workshop have now signed with Sonig. "together with blumfeld and mutter the best german speaking album of 2001" (frankfurter allgemeine zeitung) "Workshop's record, Es liebt Dich und Deine Korperlichkeit ein Ausgeflippter, is mysterious, deep, wandering, folksy music, played on a basketwork base of freely-flowing guitars, with dreamy, slightly absurd and pointed lyrics in German. Althoff seems to stand to the Sonig label as Vincent Gallo does to Warp. They both break with the house styles of the cult labels who release them, apparently returning to something much more traditional. But they fit because they're charismatic cults in their own right." www.demon.co.uk/momus/edinburgh2002.html

"as it is more or less the case with each Workshop recording, is stylistically dissimilar from where the group has previously been. With the current record, they have cut their cloth into shorter sections (the previous one, Meiguiweisheng Xiang, consisted of three long pieces), emphasized lyric- and songwriting, and marshaled a distinctive palette of sounds that favors nylon-string guitar, harp, synthesizer, sitar, and overlays of drum kit and drum machine.Comparisons could be made to other Workshop records (that's an easy one); to Robert Wyatt's fearlessness in dropping his voice into a sonic void or his proclivity to multitrack vocal parts; to the dazzling stylistic heterogeneity of Indian popular music; to the visceral, macabre character of much of Althoff's visual art." (david grubbs) 


Tracklisting:
1 FŸr Wen?
2 Scheusalstage
3 Die Verwundung
4 Die Zukunft Von Nahweg
5 Wie Sieht Es Aus?
6 Missa Lux
7 Jetzt Ist Vakanz
8 Es Darf Gelacht Nisch Mehr
9 Im Winter
10 ErfŸllung