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The first track is a paraphrase on encoded call-ups for reserved army forces, that were broadcast occasionally on Israeli National radio, before the era of wireless communication. These unit codes were always constructed of two words, which were both meaningful and meaningless. Grammar-wise, they did have a sense, but this immediate sense did not reflect of course what they stood for in this specific context.
As children, for us, these codes were mainly sounds and rhythm, a mystery of the unknown folded in a broken story.

The second track is a forest ballad about an empty box.

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the title "judenduodoodeljuhu" refers to the JODEL folklor music that is typical to the Prattigau valley (where the Fremder Sender satellite is located), as the project's theme "fremder sender" (foreign transmitter) suggests, we insert our own ideas and pre-conceptions into the Prattigau landscape and culture in an absurd effort to somehow relate to it.
the booklet "jodel duett" is a hybridization of the JODEL with the RED ALERT principal: it consists of 8 splitted images, and 8 pairs of words that form a nonesense Jodel.