It's high time to discover Swiss Folk music in a new light. Doppelbock (or double bock) create new sounds directly out of ancient Switzerland and old melodies are dressed up in modern gear. Their old "Chuereihe" and old folk dances sound exotic and yet quite familiar. Original instruments - like the shawm, hurdy-gurdy and the helvetic or swiss bagpipes - play together with eBass, djembe, cajon and even the ever so folky evergreens like the diatonic accordion (Schwyzerörgeli) and the double bass. Their music is produced in a modern, close to, but not overly, pop music style, somehow miles away from but with all the due respect to tradition.

A special sound grows through intensive crossover and breeding. Old customs influenced by our globalized times. Not a pure race, but a lively bastard is this breeding's aim! Biodiversity in Doppelbock's stables. Far from aloof mockery, it's all about the caring nurturing of tradition in our times actual context and of course, it's all about the love to play. Nothing frolic, nothing artificial but highest art and not taking oneself too seriously.

This year Doppelbock are celebrating their tenth anniversary. Ten years of many different and diverse musical developments, with one everlasting consistant of altercation with musical tradition. The NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung) calls them "one of the most important renovators of folk music" and they also write: "There's the rub with Swiss folk music. Purists conserve it with absolute seriousness, populists overmix it to a poppy mix of vaudeville and sing-sang. There seems to be close to no space in between these extremes for those musicians, who want to take tradition out of its closed valleys to vitalize it with today's modern life." Yet Doppelbock try exactly to do this with as much tact as the music deserves."

Download description of the anniversary tour «10 years of Doppelbock: Voodoo Yodel»

 

Christine Lauterburg
Yodel & voice, diatonic accordion (Langnauerli) , fiddle , broom
Born in 1956 in Bern and a trained teacher, she has been fascinated with performing arts from early on and attended Bern's drama school (today's Art university of Bern) to become an actor. There followed serveral performances in plays and film productions. She later discovered her love for singing and yodelling and is touring Switzerland with different bands and groups as a musician and singer since 1980. Christine has given concerts in various parts of Europe, Africa, the Americas and China.
As a singer she enjoys the artistic freedom she always had been looking for in her earlier career. She is an aweful venerator of the so called Swiss traditional music - especially the yodel. She has been wider know with the album "Echo der Zeit".

Doppelbock:
Dide Marfurt: Hurdy-Gurdy, Tamburiza, Bousoukie, Swiss Bagpipe, Jew’s harp , Bodhràn
Simon Dettwiler: Schwyzerörgeli (swiss diatonic accordeon: 10-, 18- and 82-bass- models)
Jean-Pierre Dix: E-Bass, Contrabass
Matthias Lincke: Violin, Guitar, Voice

 

Translation: Regula Sebastiao