Bettina Koster at the same time Grand Opera and Street Theater. "(The East Village Eye) "I am put in a mind of a tux-clad Marlene Dietrich swanning around a candlelit cabaret regaling all and sundry with tales of her broken life. Cinematic does not begin to cover it. "(Val Phoenix, Wire Magazine) "Bettina Koester cest Nico sans le miroir, sans les cailloux dore d'Ibiza. Sans la jeunesse qui s'envole. (Bettina Koester is Nico without the mirror, without the golden pebbles of Ibiza, without the youth that flies). "(Gonzaï) Bettina Köster is the singer of the fabulous Berlin noise band Malaria !, then she falls into New York, creeps through the jungle jungles, wins awards for screenplays and creates some music from time to time. And today? Just the music: Voilà- Kolonel Silvertop. From where? Kösters "Kaltes Klares Wasser", "Your Turn to Run" international indie hits, malaria !, her eighties band. "Hildegard-Knef of Punk Rock", and "Queen of Noise" (by John Peel himself). Your music? Like herself, her own. Tonality? Deep, intimate timbre, in the tradition of cicadas singer-songwriters, Marianne Faithful and Nico, always sounds, the spoiled. Their presence is only one thing: breathtaking. Passion and drama, ravishing sensual and apocalyptic, a rare keyboard. That Köster puts them on the boards? Known. Thanks to Ingo Kraus, ex-Conny Plank Studio, this unheard-of rare mixture finally pops out of the boxes. Artistic home? The late seventies and early eighties Berlin, SO36, jungle, through-night nights with Iggy Pop and David Bowie. Electronic music, the exciting Noisebands of the eighties, inspiration, in which she herself contributed: "Track Four" by Mania D, chose John Peel (BBC) as Single of the Year ". Androgynes styling leaves them and malaria! To subculture icons are copied, their style, world-wide. Concerts with John Cale, New Order, Nina Hagen, Siouxsie and the Banshees. Where? Danceteria, Studio 54 in New York. Les Bains Douches in Paris, Batcave and ICA in London. Ratinger Hof, SO 36 and documenta in Kassel. From the original idea of composing a workbook and recording only two or three new tracks, Kolonel Silvertop - finally a new record. Recordings with Freu (n) den, a dynamic process from southern Italy to Berlin, to the beginning. One notices and listens: there must be something out and there must go out - on the street, into the clubs. Come on, Bettina! "I'd like to say it's an album about the joy of nightfall and the grace of daybreak and it is but then the wind whispers and it's all about our missing things again. Call it deep time pop. (Frank Kelleter, John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin, Germany), the author of the book, Record Label: Believe Germany Style: Pop