my favourite things

Album "rarara" AVAILABLE ON ITUNES. Click on this: CD only available in Japan or through Afterhours. Digital download is also available through Amazon, Rhapsody, and emusic !
many special guests are on the record, just to name a few Lali Puna's Valerie Trebeljahr, aswell as The Swirlies' Damon Tutunjan and June of 44's Sean Meadows !!!
Brooklyn's My Favourite Things offer you a window into their dreamy world of hushed lullabies, warm whispers and enchanting melodies. Their songs sound like paper-cut distant villages, cloud mountains that brush up against the ether and evergreen forests punctuated with sly yellow eyes blinking out towards you between the hulking live oaks. The delicate compositions swoon and bathe the listener in an aural watercolor wash that evokes a picturebook of all the places you visited when daydreaming as a child and never thought you would return to.
The sound feels both deceptively light and open whilst being rich in detail and delight. Violins, cellos and accordions weave in and out of twinkling glockenspiels, steel drums and harps, accompanied by breezy ukuleles and intricate guitars.
Led by multi-instrumentalist Dorothea Tachler, My Favourite Things perform live as four piece featuring prominent musicians plucked from the buoyant New York scene; Daru Oda plays on keys/vocals/ukulele/guitar/autoharp, Michael Figgiani on bass/vocals.
The band are firm favorites on the unforgiving NYC circuit, regularly appearing at the Gutter or Zebullon, but have played venues like Union Pool, Public Assembly, Cameo, Cakeshop, The Living Room, Bruar Falls, Pianos, Lit Lounge etc, transporting transfixed audiences from their chaotic built up urban environments to a twilight world of their favourite things.
WNYC writes:
My Favourite Things has the kind of sound that could rush into your dreams and send you off into one of those 'happy place' nostalgia-filled montages you see in films--but one that you're actually excited about. The Brooklyn quintet creates an organic sprawling sound structured within rich precision and detail. What's more, the band features a hotbed of NY talent. Singer, multi-instrumentalist Dorothea Tachler (formerly of Igloo and Mice Parade) with Daru Oda on keys/vocals (formerly in Norah Jones' band), Michael Figgiani on bass/vocals (Exeter Popes), singer/songwriter Alastair Ottesen on guitar/vocals with Jeffrey Ryan on drums. On this track, "Summer of '91," Tachler breathes life back into meadows and bicycles from summers past via a whispering lullaby. (http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/music-hub/2010/sep/16/gig-alert-my-favourite-things/ )
September 2010



Video by Tobias Yves Zintel