OMRI ZIEGELE WHERE’S AFRICA

GOING SOUTH


Omri Ziegele: Alto Saxophone, Uzbek Flute, Vocals
Yves Theiler: Keyboards, Reed Organ, Melodica, Vocals
Dario Sisera: Percussion, Drums


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1. Afreaka (Yves Theiler) 6:47
2. Make Me Mad (Omri Ziegele) 3:31
3. Laughing Your Tears Away (Omri Ziegele) 3:48
4. Will You Marry Me After So Many Years (Omri Ziegele) 2:14
5. Space (Yves Theiler Lyrics by Theiler/Ziegele) 5:38
6. Yesterday’s Tomorrows (Omri Ziegele) 5:35
7. The Milkman Always Paid My Rent (Omri Ziegele) 4:28
8. Camel, Where’s My Land (Omri Ziegele: music and lyrics) 13:36
9. Ithi Gqi (Johnny Dyani) 3:45
Total time 49:51

Recorded September 22, 23, 2016, at Hardstudios Winterthur by Andreas Neresheimer.
Edits by Dario Sisera, mixed by Andreas Neresheimer and Where’s Africa, overdubs by Where’s Africa, mastered by Andreas Neresheimer.
In cooperation with Radio SRF 2 Kultur.
Cover art and graphic design: Jonas Schoder. Photo: Heinz Unger. Liner notes: Bert Noglik.
Produced by Omri Ziegele and Intakt Records. Published by Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt.

Intakt CD 284 / 2017

Worldwide Release date:
8/18/2017

 

Die aktuelle Ausgabe von Omri Ziegeles «Where’s Africa» bewegt sich mit federender Leichtigkeit und
erdigen Grooves auf ein Terrain des vorbehaltlosen Glücks. Alles darf fliessen, die Zeit und der Gesang, der wie Kinderreime Kreise zieht, bis er unerwartet ins Freie führt.

Das Keyboard verwandelt sich in ein Arsenal gestimmter Trommeln, wird zur Melodica, zum Bass, zum Uni­ver­salinstrument. Dazu brodelnde Percussion, entspanntes Timing oder treibende Rhythmen, über die sich das Altsaxophon erheben kann – liedhaft, hymnisch, spirituell, entfesselt wie in Trance. Tanz­vergnügen und Orgasmus, Andacht und Gebet, undzuweilen alles in einem.
(Bert Noglik aus den Liner Notes)


Photo: Heinz Unger

This new album by Omri Ziegele’s «Where’s Africa» trio is in a place where there is unmitigated joy; its movements are feather-light, yet its grooves are earthy. That state of being in which everything can flow freely, the songs, time, like children’s rhymes and rounds, circling until they suddenly lead us out into the open.

The keyboard transforms itself into a whole battery of tuned drums – it becomes a melodica, a bass, a universal instrument. In addition there is the simmering of the percussion, either with a relaxed timefeel or driving rhythms, over which the alto saxophone can lift raise itself – song-like, hymnic, spiritual, unchained as if in a trance.

There are moments when everything connects: the joy of the dance and the “petite mort”; devotion and prayer.
 



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