Bees Make Honey

Fai Baba, Long Tall Jefferson and Black Sea Dahu-bassist Paul Märki are Löwenzahnhonig, “dandelion honey” in English. And they have made an album, also called “Löwenzahnhonig”. It is out now via A tree in a Field/Inselgruppe.

Fai Baba used to be fond of ferociously psychedelic guitar acrobatics. Now living in the countryside, he has turned his songwriterly gaze towards a more bucolic and quiet type of music. Long Tall Jefferson, apart from being one of the founders of Red Brick Records, has acquired a sizeable international community of fans with songs that combine the approach of a singer/songwriter in the classic mode with a flair for understated electronica. Paul Märki, meanwhile, has been on the road incessantly with the ever-busy Black Sea Dahu. The trio came together when Jefferson and Fai Baba met in the former’s Zurich studio for a loose jam-session. Märki, who shares the studio with Jefferson, happened to be hanging around, and before long, he joined in on drums. At the end of the day, they had recorded the first track of an album that came together just like that, without intention or plan.

All-instrumental – two guitars and a hint of drums, give or take a spot of whistling and a hint of ambient vocals -, the nine tracks are reminiscent in their limpid spaciousness of Fleetwood Mac’s “Albatross”. There can’t really be a better compliment.

Löwenzahnhonig
Fai Baba
Long Tall Jefferson
Inselgruppe
Red Brick Records