Dotschy Reinhardt: Sprinkled Eyes

Dotschy Reinhardt, vocals and guitar
Ulli Bartel - mandolin, violin
Christian von der Gotz - piano
Armando Chuh - perc
Scott White - bass
Alexej Wagner - guitar
Gregoire Peters - flute

Sprinkled Eyes gathers impressions from Dotschy's diary, becoming new adventures here and now. There's a relaxed swinging tribute to Brazilian guitarist Toninho Horta. The serenades "In Town" and "Love's Shore"... whispering timbre, or the bluesy stroke of genius "Home - Kehre" with a reverence to Donald Fagen. With flexible and sensual phrases she gets a very female perspective out of one of her all time favourites, Sinatra's "The Moon Was Yellow". The title track is a dreamy acoustic pearl, dedicated to her uncle. On "Dschinea Du Gar / Without You" a Wes Montgomery influenced solo is cleverly woven in and reveals one more pillar of her inspirations. The metamorphosis of Django at times happens rather veiled and tongue-in-cheek, like in "Gaj Rath" and "Girls Like Me", then candidly like in her new version of "Nuages": Being relieved from the usual gypsy swing line-up and instead of that welcoming a Fender Rhodes and the "simple and truthful" (Dotschy) lyrics by Tony Bennett, it presents itself as a newly dressed masterpiece. "It is very important for me to have a personal opinion, a personal rendition to every song. After a long time I've found my own version of 'Nuages' with this arrangement", she affirms.

"... and between them again and again Dotschys restrained voice, the songs performed now dynamically, now sentimentally, speaking and inspiring with a subtle lyric undertone."
(Schwaebishe Zeitung)