Biography
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Years Active
2007 – present (17 years)
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Founded In
Berlin, Germany
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Members
- Ella Blixt
- Ellinor Blixt
- Robert Kretzschmar
It's A Musical is a band formed in 2007 in Berlin by Robert Kretzschmar and Ella Blixt. Their debut album "The music makes me sick" was released on Morr Music in 2008. Their 2nd album "For years and years" was released in March 2012.
While getting to know each other at common concerts with their then current projects, Ella Blixt was living in the Swedish city of Malmö and recording songs under the name of “Bobby Baby” when Berlin-based Robert Kretzschmar broached the first ideas of his notion of pop music with his duo “Lady Boy”. A few months later, Blixt moved to Berlin. First common songs were written on an old organ with a charming name and an even more charming sound. And because there was this organ and soon a piano, too, for Blixt's sparkling chords and since Kretzschma's airy and swinging play of drums went forward curiously, “there was no hand left for a guitar”. Indie pop without guitars? But the music that has taken the best from Stereolab and St. Etienne, from the likeable simplicity of LoFi as well as from the interwoven harmony landscapes of a Burt Bacharach or a Karen Carpenter, this music has left behind the drawer of indie anyway. Trumpets, vibraphones, canonical Choirs. “It’s a Musical”, it really is.
Their debut album "The music makes me sick" was released on Morr Music in 2008. Their 2nd album "For years and years" was released in March 2012.
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