Sarah Buechi, Franz Hellmüller & Rafael Jerjen - Pink Mountain Sagas (2024)

The first album Moon Trail by Buechi – Hellmüller – Jerjen was celebrated by Swiss National Radio as the “surprise of the year” 2022. Now the trio is releasing a long-awaited album - Pink Mountain Sagas, featuring guests Kristina Brunner on the Schwyzerörgeli and Andreas Gabriel on the violin. They are both key elements of a young, experimental and lively Swiss folk music. Pink Mountain Sagas bears witness to the fact that Sarah Buechi has traveled far and wide, spending over seven years on the road in Bangalore, Dublin, London, Copenhagen, Accra, Paris and New York. She has heard the world. At the same time, Pink Mountain Sagas are also a homecoming to the alpine Glarus region. An immersion in the world of legends, with their dramas and demons - that is the material the Pink Mountain Sagas draw on. "Initially, some things only come through as hints. But on repeated listenings, the musical structure becomes clearer, just like the sky opening up when you are travelling high up in the mountains. The expressive music literally carries the attentive mind into the rugged, alpine Glarnerland", writes Johannes Rühl in the liner notes.

Sarah Buechi: Voice
Franz Hellmüller: Guitar
Rafael Jerjen: Bass
Kristina Brunner: Schwyzerörgeli
Andreas Gabriel: Violine
Marianne Domide: Alphorn
Emmanuel Krucker: Hackbrett