Gretli & Heidi
What at first sight looks like an over the top Yodel album from the mountains of central Europe, turns out to be a Musical project of two Swedish artists. Gretli is played by Carin Blom and Heidi by Catharina Backman. Together with their impressive collection of cowbells, bottles, wine glasses, two accordions flutes etc. This duo creates a theatrical, experimental kind of Alp-noir music. Starting the album with a greeting the sun Yodel, followed by their thoughts of lonely girls, stumbling over a 4000 years old corpse and fighting over a man. Then they got lost in the fog and disguise themselves as men and get free rösti. It all ends in an ode to a guy who works in a glass factory for 25years. How all of these themes sound? Well, a lot of high pitched and airy sounds, sometimes surprisingly melodic and rhythmic but always with big and small cows just around the corner. This is visual music made for live performance. Not bad recorded at all, but I keep getting the feeling that I miss something and wish the two artists appeared in my living room when playing their CD. Something tells me their stage performance is quite spectacular.