Blues, Ragtime, Swing, Chanson und weitere erlesene Perlen neuerer Zeit servieren die B&W Chocolate Howlers, von zuckersüss bis bitterzart.
Irène and I share a love for music that tells stories — honest, handmade, acoustic. Together we travel from the cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta through the smoky clubs of New Orleans and the songwriter factories of 1920s New York, all the way to the bistros of Paris.
We dig into the originals — Blind Blake, Bessie Smith, the Mississippi Sheiks, Doc Watson — and arrange what we find for guitar, ukulele, mandolin, singing saw, and whatever else we can get our hands on. Some of our instruments are almost a hundred years old. The music we play on them is older still.
French chansons — Brassens, Moustaki, Brel, Henri Salvador — are our European anchor. They remind us (and our audience) that we’re not pretending to be American. We’re Swiss musicians who fell in love with this music and carry it forward with respect and joy.
We’ve played close to 200 concerts — in cafés, gardens, living rooms, wine cellars. Always acoustic, always intimate. The way this music was meant to be heard.