Falter 2006

(…) on the other Hand Didi Bruckmayr, Austrian singer extraordinaire who holds a PhD in economics, reduces himself entirely to the acoustic guitar on his latest release. However, “Dr Didi – Songs” (Extraplatte), has little to do with a classical singer-songwriter concept. What the head-fuckhead created with the congenial guitarist and composer Peter Androsch in an unplugged session on an afternoon in autumn is a document of extraordinary expression: Bruckmayr sings, or screams, screeches, howls, gurgles, whines, and shrieks without regard to his vocal chords, to compositions of tender falsetto, deep bass or polyphonic overtone singing. (…)

Klaus Taschwer im Falter, Wien 36/2006 vom 6. 9. 2006