6 stars for Backstage

I'll start with the conclusion:
Is it credible when one discusses a disk and not a "fly in the ointment" was? In this case, I'm even in the most critical consideration to any other assessment. It's amazing what Carolin No added between September 2013 and September 2014 of its "Favorite Sin" tour and later in several months out in the United States partly in hotels and living rooms. She is currently touring and still be praised euphorically in concert reviews. No wonder, because there are simply beautiful compositions that come from and by Caros touching and also audibly matured voice ideally advantage. Unmistakable is her voice and singing style anyway. With her husband Andi Obieglo she has a partner who is a gifted musician himself and Caro empathetic songs quasi writes on the vocal cords. They have developed from an insider tip to a sonorous name. Their concerts are almost always sold out.

The CD (duration 55:01) begins with the famous jazz standard lilting title "All of me". "Loveland", the theme song from the 2011 studio CD has become an embellished with beautiful guitar accompaniment, also with pedal steel supple version. The third song "Rain rain go away" I know from their first CD "Carolin No" (2007), as both dared the first musical steps after several competitions won. The musicians used a text which comes from Andis living in the States for Aunt "Mary's Song" in two versions contained on the disc. A nice interview with Andi Mary McDonald is on YT included (see the bottom of this page). A beautiful vocal symbiosis with singer Todd Hannigan draws the breezy duet number "I'll wait for you" from. With the waves of the ocean and the squawking radio-Stim inlay of Paul Sweazey begins "The poor man's version of the physics of waves." An absolutely fascinating instrumental with the theme "surfing", played by Andi on the baritone Lap Steel. That it is best to repeatedly hear - with equal fascination. In bluesy "Sick of Home Blues" shows Caro that it dominates all facets of her vocal modulation perfectly. With its strikingly sonorous voice Colin Brown invites to a second vote of Caro for "Wayfaring Stranger", the foreign wanderer song. A first unexpected surprise came my way when I clicked on the title "Hands". Flamenco music! With the flamenco guitar of Alex Kilian. Also manages Caro with noticeable joy in the Klatschrythmen. "Crystal Ball" took me back to the time of my first acoustic encounter with Carolin No. It is a wonderful version with lush band arrangement, which gives the title a new dimension. After a brief instrumental interlude of Andi Obieglo ("Claremont revisited") the next surprise was the version of "Year of November," provided by Caro with a German text, which is now simply called 'November' and with dark cello sounds, given the rarely bright season can sometimes pose a question of meaning. But the prospect of the coming spring allows the sound to be more optimistic again. "Time is flowing" is an intimate conversation between the sensitive piano playing by Andi and subtly played cello by Tilmann Wehle, who was already at the Würzburg Harbour Festival in Würzburg 2012 case. Of this there is a recommended DVD. A third unexpected surprise overtook me, as the old folk song was sung "If I were a bird". Mich haute there almost from the stool, as Caro began dipped in slightly alienated soundscape to sing the song and mutated into an almost orgiastic prog rock number. The fetzte and the post went off! Respect for this courageous undertaking! By otherwise played on tours Hinausschmeisser "River / Good evening, good night" ends an extremely varied CD that I had not expected.

One can only recommend the Duo to investigate further possibilities of musical development. The potential to possess. The disc with the West Coast sound is, as always, excellent mixed in their previous productions and offers rich, warm sound.