Thomas Diethelm is a Swiss jazz/prog/pop guitarist and singer. He would later form the Thomas Diethelm Band and play in a duo with keyboardist Santino Famulari. Bruno Brandenberger was a Swiss upright bassist. I forget where I grabbed this (bad of me, I know) but it doesn't seem to be unavailable anywhere online now, so I'm putting it up here.
The music is somewhat reminiscent of Führs & Fröhling, in that it is melodic, moody, spacey progressive music structured around nylon-string guitar. Instead of synthetic accompaniment as in F&F, Diethelm's guitar is coupled here by Brandenberger's warm bass counterpoint. Guitar and bass are sent through various echo, delay, and phaser units, giving the album a simultaneously acoustic and electronic texture. Far from being jarring, the sound is insanely comfortable on the ears. On several songs the instruments are accompanied by Diethelm's surprising and strangely beautiful falsetto vocals, consisting of wordless vocables. Extremely listenable. Some parts of rare beauty. Singular sound quality.
Duo Diethelm Brandenberger - Didi L'Amour
LP, Gold Records, 1978
A1 Didi L'Amour
A2 Dvorak
A3 Oktober
A4 Basso
A5 Maisprünge
B1 Peperonata
B2 Vergnügt
B3 Tagtraum
B4 Herbstwanderung
B5 Toni N.
B6 Viva La Marie
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For decades i am looking for a copy of this devine album. Happy to hear a piece of it.
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