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Artist
Virna Lindt
12+ albums
swedishnew wavefemale vocalistsart popCompact Organisation
about
Virna Lindt is a Swedish singer and record producer. Her debut single "Attention Stockholm" became an indie-chart hit in 1982. She released two studio albums, Shiver in 1983 and Play/Record in 1985, both on the Compact Organization label. Both collaborations with writer/producer/arranger Tot Taylor. "The release of Virna Lindt's Attention Stockholm single in May 1981 marked the official beginning of the retro-lounge movement in the UK and Europe. Taking its cue from Bernard Hermann's soundtracks for Alfred Hitchcock, John Barry's Bond exploits and TV series like The Persuaders and The Prisoner, Attention Stockholm managed to weave together the twangy guitars of surf-punk, the lush strings of Hollywood and the musique-concrete of Pierre Boulez and John Cage within a heavily-compressed synthetic beat which captured the imagination of teenage record fans from Camden to Kawasaki. The story of a secret agent who disappeared while on a mission to save the world, the record was not so much sung as 'spoken'. The speaker being twenty year old Virna Lindt, a Swedish translation student who was at the time working for two of the world's largest news agencies and, as it turned out later, in an indirect way, the secret services of at least two nations. While on a train bound for London, Lindt met songwriter and record producer Tot Taylor and told him of her plan to make a record like "a Hitchcock theme with a rock n' roll beat." Thus, the urgent-sounding 45, recorded live in Stockholm
