Anja Huwe – Codes [Oxblood LP]

After Xmal Deutschlands success with four albums on cult labels such as 4AD, Huwe abandoned music to pursue her visual art career. But leaving her legacy in the past was not so easy.

During the pandemic Huwe reconsidered her decades-long hiatus
from music. With a push by her longtime friend Mona Mur – a singer, songwriter and film music composer (as well as the frontwoman of early-80s project Mona Mur & Die Mieter) – Huwe decided to join Mur in Berlin. Together with Manuela Rickers, guitarist and collaborator in Xmal Deutschland, they tossed around music and poetic ideas that would eventually become the album Codes.

Initially inspired by the diary entries of Moshe Shnitzki, who, at the age of 17, left his home in 1942 to live in the cavernous White Russian forests as a