Culture | Film

Yodellers broaden their range in Echoes of Home

Echoes of Home: a beautiful and complex film
10 April 2012

A documentary about three Swiss yodellers may not sound enticing but Stefan Schwietert’s film shows the singers as radical musicians steeped in a tradition that marks their national identity but also determined to explore music from Africa and Latin America.

The result is a more complex, beautiful film than one had dared to hope. I’ll never giggle at yodelling again.

Echoes Of Home

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