During his thirty years of playing live Lucas Niggli recorded with many musicians like Aly Keïta, Barry Guy, Sylvie Courvoisier, Luciano Biondini, Michel Godard, Andreas Schaerer, Nils Wogram, Elliott Sharp, Steamboat Switzerland, Erika Stucky. He has occasionally given solo concerts, for example a performance at the big John Cage Festival in Switzerland in the late 1980s at which Cage himself witnessed Niggli’s performance of 27’ 10.554” for a Percussionist. It is time, in the best sense, for Lucas Niggli to release a solo album. What a great way to celebrate one’s own 50th birthday – with this gift to himself and the listener.
New York critic Laurence Donohue-Greene writes in the liner notes: „As a drummer blessed with a percussionist’s intuitive sense and virtuosic capability and range, Niggli’s memorable solo performances here unquestionably add to the tradition of the great solo drummers who preceded him while keeping an eye on the horizon.“.
1. Alchemia Garden 6:12
2. Flora Glow 3:35
3. Bakossi Dew 2:26
4. Go Goblin 2:38
5. Tuned Arrow 3:51
6. Seeds ’n’ Roots 5:13
7. Ooze 2:10
8. Mimosa 3:21
9. Pulsatilla 0:57
10. Booloobali 2:59
11. Ohia Lehua 2:22
12. Nelumbo Nero 1:33
13. Villa Caroba 2:11
14. Welwitschia 2:44
15. Hydnora 4:27
All music composed by Lucas Niggli (SUISA).
Recorded September 5 – 8, 2017, by Jeroen Visser at Villa Am Aabach, Uster, Switzerland.
Mixed and mastered by Martin Ruch at Control Room Berlin, November 8, 9, 2017.
Liner notes by Bert Noglik and Laurence Donohue-Greene.
Cover art: Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger. Szenografie: Elisa Allessi.
Graphic design: Jonas Schoder. Photos: Michelle Ettlin.
Produced by Lucas Niggli and Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt.
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