On her second album Rykestrasse 68, Norwegian Hanne Hukkelberg once again expresses her love for separate instruments. On her special and particularly beautiful debut Little Things (2005) she already used strange objects to create sounds - an inverted bicycle on stage is very common in her live performances - on the successor, among other things, clogs and an egg cutter are used. She has again made
… a fairytale CD, on which she shows her own unique sound. That sound originated largely in Berlin, to which the album title also refers. The great thing about Hukkelberg is that despite her urge to experiment, the songs never end in 'doing crazy for the sake of it'. Unlike acts that follow similar musical paths, Hukkelberg can step out of the fantasy world at the right time. The Remmington typewriter in The North Wind and the purr of a cat in Obelix might not seem superfluous or far-fetched, but seem perfectly in place. Rykestrasse 68 makes it clear that the beauty of Little Things was not a one-off. (IV)more
