Alright! You know any talk of Propaganda and ZTT in general will bring me out of the woodwork.
What can I say. The one true Propaganda album "A Secret Wish" is a huge influence on me. "Murder of Love" happens to be my favorite. "Dream Within A Dream" still- way ahead of it's time. ZTT had a way of crafting albums: engineering, sequencing, production, packaging. Detroit's early aesthetic ran parallel/ similar to this, in my opinion. Can any native Detroit artist vouch for this influence? (Kind of a Nouveu Urbane influence, y'know, 1980s UK, Face Magazine etc..) Claudia Brucken, the original singer for Propaganda is still active. She has two new projects out on her new label: There(there). One is a collaboration with Paul Humphreys from OMD, a 5 track ep called: One/Two: "Item". The second, another collaboration (...a wet dream for you real ZTT geeks...) with Andrew Poppy called "Another Language". The latter is simply fantastic. Andrew Poppy on piano with Claudia on vocals. Torch song type arrangements of a very ecclectic song list: Frank Black, Elvis Costello, Kate Bush, among others. ZTT appears to be helping with distribution of both projects as I purchased my copies directly from their website. Also, if you are not familiar with Andrew Poppy, do yourself a favor and check him out. Find his stuff from 20 years ago and you will simply find yourself here in 2005 looking 20 years ahead....(!?).... Late night milk and cookies must be kicking in... OH! Cyclone, I am still working on a package of goodies for you. I know it has taken me 6 months, but I do have a number disks that I will post out to you by the end of the month. Best regards, Louis
