From Loudersound.
Prog Award winner Claudia Brücken has teamed up with her former Propaganda colleague Susanne Freytag and the band’s former producer Steve Lipson (a member of Trevor Horn‘s pop prog band Producers), to announce a new album as xPropaganda. The new outfit will release a brand new album, The Heart Is Strange through their old label ZTT on May 20. You can listen to first single Don’t (You Mess With Me) below.
The new trio have also announced a London show at The Garage on May 24, where “Claudia, Susanne & Stephen will perform The Heart Is Strange in full, as well as some much-loved Propaganda classics from their back catalogue.”
Propaganda were formed in Dusseldorf in 1982 by industrial musician Ralf Dorper. The band signed to ZTT and released their acclaimed debut album A Secret Wish in 1985. Despite hit singles such as Dr. Mabuse and Duel, the band’s career became embroiled in legal wrangles and they split in 1990.
The four key members, Brücken, Freytag, Dorper and Michael Mertens, have reunited sporadically over the years. This current activity from vocalists Brücken and Freytag came about after the pair performed two sold-out shows at the Grarage as xPropaganda in 2018, and followed it up by convening with Lipson to begin writing new material.
“We always thought it was a shame that an album as distinctive and acclaimed as A Secret Wish seemed destined to be a one-off. It certainly meant a lot to us, and it never seemed right that the story stopped there. Working again with Stephen Lipson and means that we can turn our dreams about what the ZTT follow up to A Secret Wish would sound like into a reality.”
Claudia Brücken teamed up with former Tangerine Dream member Jerome Froese to record the Beginn album in 2018. The same year she won the Outer Limits Award at the Progressive Music Awards.
The Heart Is Strange will be available on coloured vinyl, black vinyl, CD, 2CD and digital
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PROPAGANDA Propaganda (2024 UK/EU limited edition double album 2-LP pressed on Blue Vinyl, the brand new album from Propaganda, their 3rd album and their first for over 30 years featuring guest appearancesfrom Hauschka and Thunder Bae. Comprising the new 8-track LP album and a bonus LP with 5 extra tracks. Housed inside a black with blue gatefold picture sleeve individually hand-numbered from an edition of just 1000 copies, factory sealed)
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CLAUDIA BRUCKEN Kiss Like Ether (Scarce 1991 UK limited edition 3-track 12" vinyl single including Mark Saunders' Electrical Embrace & As Pure mixes plus 'I, Dream [Recurring]'. Issued in a card sleeve with an elaborate overprinted tracing-paper dust jacket, the vinyl appears in near 'as new' condition 12IS479)
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