Third Album and Additional Appearances
Kira has been working on her third album since the fall of 2007. Originally scheduled for release in the spring of 2009, and later pushed back to the fall, it is now due out some time this year (no exact date has been set). During its production she has made several appearances, including a guest spot on the German radio station NDR's monthly show Hamburg Sounds (October 8, 2007) and relatively small-scale shows in Berlin and Hamburg in March and April 2008 respectively. Some of these shows were designed to try out new songs for the album. "New songs are like new varieties of chocolate," said an entry in the news section of Kira's web site in February. "They have to be tested and tasted before they can be firmly allowed to belong to the assortment."
Funding for the album was boosted by a support grant from the German government's recently-introduced "Initiative Musik" program in early July 2008. Meanwhile, after happy years with Freibank, Kira switched publishers, and is now represented by Wintrup Musikverlage.
In the summer of 2008 Kira and other German artists were invited by the Goethe Institute to perform at a Chinese-German bi-cultural event in Guangzhou called "Deutschland und China--Gemeinsam in Bewegung" (Germany and China—Moving Forward Together), which started in Nanjing in August 2007 and is running in a succession of Chinese cities till October 2010. After her gig at this event, which took place on November 9, Kira performed at a number of universities in Chongqing.
Shortly after her return to Germany, her new tour, called "Deine Insel" (Your Island), was announced. It ran from March 26 to April 4, 2009 in a succession of several German cities, including Dresden, Hamburg, Wuppertal and Berlin. In time for the tour, Kira released an EP of the same title, which contains some of the songs intended for the third album. At the invitation of Initiative Musik, Kira returned to China in mid-June for a series of concerts in Shenyang, Beijing and Shanghai with the bands SuidAkrA and Vorzeigekinder. Kira's appearance in Shenyang on June 13, which was also at the invitation of the Goethe Institute, was part of the "Deutschland und China--Gemeinsam in Bewegung" event.
Read more about this topic: Kira (German Singer)
Famous quotes containing the words album, additional and/or appearances:
“What a long strange trip it’s been.”
—Robert Hunter, U.S. rock lyricist. “Truckin’,” on the Grateful Dead album American Beauty (1971)
“Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world’s worship.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)