Susie Asado

Susie Asado is a poem by Gertrude Stein. This Susie Asado is Josepha Conrad. She is not a poem although she likes to write them. She also likes Gertrude Stein. So much is apparent. You might know her from Crazy for Jane. You might know her from the park. You might have seen her in the movie Berlin Song. Josepha writes songs and she will sing them for you. Happily. Her songs are about geographic challenges about borders and border patrol about falling in love with border patrol and with countries and that is more than one country. She likes places such as Mexico although she has never been. She likes the word. She likes Olympia. For the O and the grandeur of it. She likes Berlin. She lives there. Her hometowns are Frankfurt am Main and Chicago and she also suffers from Chief Niwot's Curse having laid her eyes on the Flatirons of the Rocky Mountains. Yes, she is superstitious. And she drinks a lot of tea. "Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea. Susie Asado." Her debut album "Hello Antenna", was released on the German label lolila in 2008. www.lolila.de



Currently Susie Asado is working on a new album with Marko Hefele, Jason Levis and that Tomi Simatupang. You will find them in Berlin, brooding over frequencies and drinking tea. Even Marko is drinking tea now. Jason is the fanciest of tea drinkers. Fancy in the sense of first pickings of tea tips and proper temperature of water. Susie appreciates a good cup, but mainly she just likes tea. The heat and the rush of it. I am sure you want to know all this. Anyways, do leave your house, your city, your country to see one of their live shows. They promise an evening of fancy sophisticated fun with lots of words and yes, songs in German and English and the two of them all mixed-up together, that is the words, the languages, not the people, they are not mixed up, not at all. Viva Mexico!



The wonderfully talented filmmakers Veronika Samartseva and Anna Samoylovich have made an animated music video for "Hello Antenna". You can watch the high quality version on Susie Asado's website http://www.susieasado.com/video.html or the youtube version here