She’s the German actress and amateur singer-songwriter who achieved notoriety three decades after she made the humble home recordings that were released in 2006 as the critically acclaimed Colour Green. Now the reclusive Sibylle Baier is making a rare appearance at the Saugerties’ Orpheum Theatre for the June 9 screening of Wim Wenders’ 1974 classic Alice in the Cities.
“Sibylle Baier and her daughter Julia appeared briefly in Wim Wenders’ film Alice in the Cities. The two protagonists come across Sibylle standing on the ferry, holding her daughter as she sings one of her songs entitled ‘Softly’.. Through the early 1970s, Baier made lo-fi acoustic recordings of songs she wrote for her pleasure alone, ones that Robby gathered onto a CD gifted to friends to mark his mother’s 60th birthday. One recipient was Dinosaur Jr’s J. Mascis who secured its commercial release as the 14-track collection, Colour Green, on Orange Twin label.
Baier’s breathy, stripped-back acoustic sound is often compared to Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake and a folky Nico. Her fans number musicians like Kim Gordon, who included her on a playlist of favorites in a 2015 article in the New York Times. Her evocative music has since been licensed for many projects including the films Drinking Buddies and My Salinger Year and the TV show, End of the F**cking World. A new recording, “Let Us Know,” was featured in Wenders’ film, Palermo Shooting.
Although she will not be performing live, Baier will be playing tracks from Colour Green.
The event will take place in “The Mark,” the brand-new screening room at Upstate Films’ Orpheum Theatre in Saugerties. The Mark’s most notable elements are its acoustics with its Dolby Atmos sound system, engineered with WSDG and cinema specialist Dave Berti, which provides precision sound that envelops the audience, immersing them in the heart of the film. WSDG, led by John Storyk, has previously designed venues and studios for Bruce Springsteen, UCLA, Lincoln Center, Spotify, Jay-Z, MTV, Alicia Keys, NYU, and, at the beginning of Storyk’s career, Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios.
For more information and tickets, visit Upstate Films
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