Coloma is a Cologne, Germany-based English duo of vocalist Rob Taylor and producer Alex Paulick that falls into a continuum that includes Roxy Music

Roxy Music

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, ABC

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, Soft Cell

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, and the Blue Nile

The Blue Nile

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; although their songs are neither as flamboyant nor as ornate as their predecessors' material. Coloma signed with Mathias Schaffhäuser's Ware label for their debut album, 2002's Silverware.

They returned the following year with "Finery", recorded at Conny Plank

Conny Plank

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's studio and also released the album on the Ware label. Two years later, they released the Dovetail on Klein records, featuring a horn section and several other guest instrumentalists. Their fourth album "Love`s Recurring Dream" will be released in February 2009 on Italic.

Outside of the group, Taylor lent his voice to Schaffhäuser's cover of Icehouse

Icehouse (band)

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's "Hey Little Girl", and Paulick has played bass in the band Kreidler

Kreidler

Kreidler was a German manufacturer of small motorcycles and mopeds, based in Kornwestheim, between Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart. The company was founded in 1903 as "Kreidlers Metall- und Drahtwerke" by Anton Kreidler and started to build motorcycles in 1951. In 1959 one third of all German...

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Discography

• Silverware (2002)
• Finery (2003)
• Dovetail (2005)
• Love's Recurring Dream (2009)