Edda Lou

Yellow Bird

Yellow Bird – which features the voices of Vermont-bred Manon Kahle and Zurich-born Lucia Cadotsch entwining in a dream vision of Anglo-American song – releases their new album, Edda Lou. Long ago in the Appalachian region of America, coal miners used to take a canary with them deep down into the shafts. It was a bad sign about the atmosphere if the yellow bird stopped singing… So, it must be a good sign that Yellow Bird is not only still singing, but more beautifully than ever, even with our atmosphere so troubled, on both sides of the Atlantic. The group channels a dream vision of Anglo-American folk music into a sound that feels both very old and brand new. The manner of the music-making has a vintage charm, a resonant earthiness, an old soul; but the voices are fresh, the emotions they evoke timeless. After a debut album, Sing, that included rambunctious, on-the-fly covers of old American country songs and rootsy pop – “Lovesick Blues,” “Walking After Midnight,” “Lazy Bones” – Yellow Bird presents its subtly artful second album, featuring all original songs. Manon, who wrote most of these songs, not only sings but plays fiddle, ukulele and banjo, while Lucia adds melodica and percussion; the distinctive instrumentation of the album also includes Uli Kempendorff on various clarinets, Ronny Graupe on guitar and bass, as well as Tim Lorenz, Michael Griener and Max Weissenfeldt on drums. e, laugh or cry.”

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