Dulcimer player Töbi Tobler and bassist Patrick Sommer expand contemporary folk music. Together with saxophonist Reto Suhner, they create a sound that provides solace. Reservations required.

Töbi Tobler, a veteran of alternative Swiss folk music, has been teaming up with bassist with bassist Patrick Sommer. Now Reto Suhner is another congenial partner. partner. Suhner comes from a jazz background and is at home in improvisation. The three of them they are relaunching free folk music. On their new CD, it becomes exciting exciting world music. Tobler's hammered dulcimer remains the dominant instrument. Most of the compositions compositions were written by him. Pieces in the rhythm of waltz, schottisch and polka, paired with many excursions into the creative. This turns the pieces into jewels. They sparkle like crystals in a clear mountain lake. Sommer's bass instruments, the Moroccan gimbri, (plucked and bowed) double bass, bass guitar and tuba give them a foundation of warm sounds. foundation of warm sounds.

"Simple music for difficult times" is the title. Not an empty promise: The new CD exudes warmth, confidence, cheerfulness and hope, it celebrates the lightness of being in a the lightness of being in a complex way. Deeply rooted sounds, lush to jazzy, that make us make us dream, dance, smile and marvel. Music that sometimes turns a blind eye music that turns a blind eye, that evokes the past with a touch of irony. Untouchable the echoes of Appenzell. One piece is called "Efach", another "En alte Suchog". They are waltzes, blues and polkas, they spin without stopping, constantly reinventing themselves. reinvent themselves, nothing can touch them. Just what we need in uncertain times.

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