Omri Ziegele Where`s Africa - Going South (INTAKT RECORDS 2017)

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.

Omri Ziegele: Alto Saxophone, Uzbek Flute, Vocals

Yves Theiler: Keyboards, Reed Organ, Melodica, Vocals

Dario Sisera: Percussion, Drums

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

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.