Klaus Nomi – Klaus Nomi (CD)

Born Klaus Sperber in Bavaria, Nomi transplanted himself to New York's downtown art scene in the late 1970s, where his otherworldly countertenor and theatrical persona made him a singular figure in the intersection of new wave, opera, and performance art. His 1981 self-titled debut captured something that almost no recording could fully contain, a voice and vision so strange and pure it still sounds like it arrived from somewhere outside of time.