Barbara Buchholz's latest album 'moonstruck' is a milestone for contemporary theremin music.

Barbara Buchholz studied transverse flute, guitar, bass, and voice. In the early 1980s she was active as an instrumentalist, performer, and composer in countless interdisciplinary projects and as a theater musician. She received numerous prizes for her production 'Tap It Deep' - 'MIDI-fied' tap dance and music - as well as 'Human Interactivity' and 'Theremin: Berlin - Moskow' (together with the Russian video artist Olga Kumeger).
The theremin is enjoying growing popularity, and Berlin-based Barbara Buchholz is one of the world's top virtuosos of this instrument: the magic kit that came to us from Russia at the beginning of the previous century. It is the only instrument that is played without being touched and the grandfather of all electronic instruments. It is the tremulous-sounding superweapon featured on the soundtracks of countless horror films. On her internationally celebrated debut album, Russia with Love, Barbara Buchholz took stock of this unusual instrument's capabilities. On her new CD, Moonstruck, she places it in an entirely new context.
Barbara Buchholz has managed to produce a unique album in which you sometimes even forget you are listening to a theremin. She paints an image of an ocean of sounds in which you can drift around forever. You see the stylistic banks, but you will never reach them. The current of this music follows its very own laws, which have not been recorded in any musical atlas or illustrated reference book. Barbara Buchholz has done an inestimable service to the theremin with the unambitious simplicity of her aesthetic. That alone would make this CD a milestone, even if it did not also offer such wonderful music.

Track Listing

• SixEight
• Alles Glühen
• Stein
• Moonstruck
• Moss II
• When I'm Laid
• Evocation
• Surfing & Waving
• Öd
• Moss I
• Rindenblinde
• Dune
• Little Liar

Additional Details

Label: Intuition

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 46:90 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 05/09/25

UPC: 750447340220