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Sprinkled Eyes

by Dotschy Reinhardt

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    “You call yourself Sinto – Sinto, why don’t you play anymore? You’ve forgotten your songs, your language, you’re losing your identity”, Dotschy Reinhardt tells in one of her songs. Where does the road of the “wandering people” lead to in the 21st century? Between the nostalgia of the Hot Club de France and the danger to sacrifice the unique tone to the modern times, between campfire romanticism and great jazz virtuosity there seems to be much space for new identities. But to find them courage and creativity is needed. On this album, her debut, Dotschy Reinhardt draws up a very personal sketch, brave and at the same time intimate, of what being a “Sinteza”, a female artist of the Sinti people, can signify.

    Reinhardt – a name that enjoys a very distinctive sound within the international music scene. There’s blessing in it, and a little bit of curse as well. How will a young woman be able to break free from this big family name and the big patron Django without rebelling against his legacy? Dotschy herself says her childhood and adolescence were a stroke of luck. She grows up near Ravensburg in Southern Germany and has the possibility to listen to the music of her relatives from a very young age on as the most natural thing in the world. There’s music all around, the “typical” gipsy swing repertoire, always closely linked to jazz standards, mixing with influences from the Great American Songbook and Frank SInatra, the vocabulary of people like Joe Zawinul and Alan Holdsworth, mingling with Brazilian sounds by Jobim, Sergio Mendes and Ivan Lins. One of her uncles is guitar player Bobby Falta, long time companion of Schnuckenack Reinhardt in his quintet and musical partner of Joe Pass and Chuck Loeb. The dynamic Zipflo Reinhardt counts among her cousins. Dotschy carries her education as an autodidact - and in jazz she discovers a counterpart to her love of freedom, dedicates herself to the guitar and especially to her voice.

    Eventually she leaves the idyll of her parent’s home: “I’ve become an adult in Berlin”, she reflects. “Coming to grips with this big city, with its many resistances, has given me self-confidence. And with this many wonderful musicians round here you get the feeling of being in a new family.” In her adopted place of residence Dotschy finds her own language in music, at first through her program „Django The Composer“, casting a new light on the doyen of Sinti music. Finally she forms her multi-national sextet around violin and mandolin virtuoso Uli Bartel, a friend of the family since many years, and her preferred piano player Christian von der Goltz. Gregoire Peters, half French, half German, credited by jazz greats like Stephane Grappelli and Toots Thielemanns, plays the flute. Russian guitarist Alexej Wagner, Canadian bass player Scott White and Armando Chuh with Brazilian vivacity on the percussion also appear. With this collaborators, harmonizing magically in the studio at the first go, she concentrates all the sounds that dwell in her ears and heart since her youth.

    „Sprinkled Eyes“ gathers multi-coloured impressions from the richness of her diary, becoming new adventures here and now. There’s a relaxed swinging tribute to the Brazilian guitarist Toninho Horta., the amazing serenades „In Town“ and „Love’s Shore“ with flattering, 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 pop pearl, dedicated to her uncle. On „Dschinea Du Gar / Without You“ a Wes Montgomery-solo is cleverly woven in and reveals one more pillar of her inspirations. And 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 gipsy 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 arrangements”; she affirms.

    But it is not exclusively on a musical level that „Sprinkled Eyes“ offers new ways. For Dotschy the decision to sing in Romanes, the idiom of her people, does matter. “Singing in our language, which goes very beautifully along with music, I am capable to decrease prejudices. At the same time it is important to me to hold on to traditions. Many people fear to show that they are different, to approve their identity, and that’s what the lyrics of ’Sinto’ talk about. It’s an appeal to vouch for your roots.” “Roots” to the Sinti people means being on the road, home is not defined by a certain place or country, it is rather to be found in „the taste of wine, the sound of the ocean waves, in the security that your family and your own faith gives to you”, she says almost poetically. And you can add: Home is also to be found in music. With her brilliant debut Dotschy Reinhardt has created for herself - and surely for many listeners – an new place where you can feel at home.

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Gai Rath 03:46
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Sinto 04:37
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In Town 05:40
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Home/Kehre 03:52
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„Sprinkled Eyes“ gathers multi-coloured impressions from the richness of her diary, becoming new adventures here and now. There’s a relaxed swinging tribute to the Brazilian guitarist Toninho Horta., the amazing serenades „In Town“ and „Love’s Shore“ with flattering, 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 pop pearl, dedicated to her uncle. On „Dschinea Du Gar / Without You“ a Wes Montgomery-solo is cleverly woven in and reveals one more pillar of her inspirations.

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released November 23, 2018

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