Girl Missing by Albertine Sarges was an accidental but fun discovery.
Released as a single on 7th January, it's a precursor - and title track - to her imminent second album. Girl Missing is out in full on 21st February, but a pre-order on Bandcamp will provide downloads of 5 of the 13 songs.
Albertine is Berlin based and her music has been appearing since 2020 via Moshi Moshi Records, a label which I frequently forget how much I enjoy. So, my loss that I've missed out on Albertine's music so far and I will be diving into the back catalogue pronto.
The video for Girl Missing is a lot of fun. Not, as the post title suggests, a homage to the rather underwhelming 1990 film starring Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane, yet featuring nuns. On the run. Albertine's notes on the song and video's background makes for an entertaining and insightful read.
As these things do, Girl Missing inevitably got me thinking of A.C. Marias, the duo of artist Angela Conway and Wire guitarist Bruce Gilbert, specifically One Of Our Girls Has Gone Missing, also a single and album title, albeit from 35 years ago.
A quick search unearthed the video from 1989 featuring dancer Julie Hood, a founder member of Michael Clark & Co. The previous year, Julie was a key performer in I Am Curious, Orange, the now infamous collaboration between Michael Clark and Mark E. Smith.
Everything is connected.
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