Premiere: Charlie Charlie share ‘Hill St’ from Little Things album

Swedish duo’s deep house delight

Charlie Charlie, the Swedish jazzy deep house duo, have shared a track from their imminent Little Things album.

It’s the debut album LP from Charlie Charlie as the brainchild of Gabriella Borbély alias Bella Boo and Jens Resch, better known as Chords.

Born on a beach in Southern California instead of their hometown Stockholm, the album has a smooth, Balearic feel to its, informed by nicely baked instrumentation and low slung grooves.

Charlie is Gabriella – also known as Stockholm’s deep house virtuoso Bella Boo. Charlie is Jens – also known as prodigious producer/musician Chords. The two Charlies met on a beach in Southern California and immediately decided to write a song together. That first track was built on the sampled sounds of a rusty drainpipe. Charlie fired up a dusty ARP Odyssey and played a woozy solo over the drainpipe beats, then the other Charlie did the same, using that same legendary 70’s analogue synth.

When they realized the two separately recorded solos played together in perfect harmony, they knew they had to keep heading down their newly found, shared musical path. Charlie & Charlie have since continued making music together, describing their common process as liberating, free-flowing, genre-less. ‘Little Things’, their debut album, is made up of tracks recorded in Los Angeles and Stockholm, using that very same ARP as well as pianos, electric guitars and machines like the Prophet 6, the Juno-106 and the Syncussion SY-1. Vocal contributions come from the Charlies themselves as well as friends like Mapei and Julimar Santos.