“A contemporary, urban view of pop music’s roots: melancholy, subtle, ironic.”— Die Zeit on Yellow Bird’s first album, SingLong 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 – the band from Berlin, Germany – is not only still singing, but more beautifully than ever, even with our atmosphere so troubled, on both sides of the Atlantic. The group – featuring the paired voices of Vermont-bred Manon Kahle and Zurich-born Lucia Cadotsch, who indeed sing like birds – 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: Edda Lou, to be released via Yellowbird/Enja on February XX, 2018. 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. Yellow Bird – with its mix of American and European backgrounds, as well as pre-modern and post-modern influences – harks back to an analog era as a respite to our digital age; there is a homespun, heartfelt quality to Edda Lou that bewitches.

Additional Details

Label: Yellowbird Records

Genre: World

Run Time: 50 mins

Release Date: 01/01/19

UPC: 767522778120