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Her vocal skills are phenomenal. I love how intimate the songs feel. I keep listening to the album again and again and I discover great new details each time.
Favorite track: Fear Of Failing.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
The vinyl edition of 'Forward, Backward, Start Again' comes as a black vinyl, limited to 300 pieces in a hard cover sleeve and a lined inner sleeve, including a 30x30 inlay and a lyrics banderole designed by the artist.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
The 'Forward, Backward, Start Again' CD-edition comes in a gatefold-digisleeve including a lyrics booklet with illustrations by Minoa and is limited to 300 pieces.
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Minoa, originally Ina Klos, was already musically encouraged as a child: She took piano and singing lessons, sang in the school band, in a jazz combo and in the choir. After graduating from high school, she studied popular music in Hanover (GER) for two years, but ended her studies early, because of feeling thwarted in her own creative work by the constant analytical questioning. Minoa longed to make her music free from any norm, in an intuitive way, let all impulses break fresh ground - and went to Berlin, where she still lives today. For the artist, it always felt natural to write her songs in English, even though she is not a native speaker; however, the first one and a half years of life in the USA seem to have subconsciously shaped her in that direction. Probably also her father's love for the music of the Beatles and her mother's for that of Joni Mitchell. "Forward, Backward, Start Again," released digitally, on CD and vinyl, is a milestone for Minoa, with which she musically introduces herself to a broad audience from Berlin's DIY scene with international-like quality. The title is a metaphor for the inner struggle with oneself: For the impatience to finally take a step further, to sprint off bravely and in the next moment to be caught up by fear because you have left the safe terrain. And to try again. And again. It is this dichotomy that is also reflected in the songs on the album.
"Forward, Backward, Start Again", Minoa's debut album will be released on August 19, 2022 on the Berlin label ListenRecords. Behind the stage name is the singer, musician and composer Ina Klos, who was born in Houston, Texas and grew up in a small town near Hanover. The eight songs on her first record, Minoa displays a flair for songwriting and melody that is seldom heard and clothes it in an idiosyncratic, international-style electric guitar sound that has no need to hide from the big names on the scene like Julia Jacklin, Big Thief, Angel Olsen, Soccer Mommy or Snail Mail. The vocal skills of the trained singer and speaker are also of captivating - and deeply touching - quality.
credits
released August 19, 2022
Tracks 1, 3-5 & 8
All the other songs:
vocals, quitars, organs, synths • Ina Klos
bass • Till Schomburg
drums • Lucian Gorski
co-produced by Till Schomburg and Ina Klos
at Daily Soup Studios in Berlin
mixed by Simeon Cöster
mastered by Philipp Welsing/Original Mastering
All songs are written by Ina Klos
Track 6:
vocals, synth, guitars • Ina Klos
additional guitars • Birk Buttchereyt
bass • Till Schomburg
drums & percussion • Lucian Gorski
additional cymbals • Simeon Cöster
produced by Birk Buttchereyt and Ina Klos
mixed by Simeon Cöster
mastered by Philipp Welsing / Original Mastering
Tracks 2 & 7:
vocals, organ • Ina Klos
guitars • Jonathan Reiter
bass • Benjamin Oppermann
drums • Julian Jacob Heinemann
produced by Jonathan Reiter
mixed by Julian Jacob Heinemann
mastered by Andreas Plab
Artwork:
layout by Kristina Brasseler and Ina Klos
photography by Qixuan Lexi Sun
illustrations by Ina Klos
Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH
with project funds from the
Federal Government Commissioner
for Culture and Media.
THANK YOU to my precious band
mates, friends and family and label
Listenrecords, who sometimes believe
more in me than I do and helped
me to turn this big dream - my first
album - into reality!
Born in Houston, TX Minoa grew up in a small village in Lower-Saxony. Actually wanted to become a professional tightrope
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