Omri Ziegele, Where's Africa - Going South (2017) [Hi-Res]

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

Tracklist:
01. Omri Ziegele, Where's Africa - Afreaka (6:47)
02. Omri Ziegele, Where's Africa - Make Me Mad (3:31)
03. Omri Ziegele, Where's Africa - Laughing Your Tears Away (3:49)
04. Omri Ziegele, Where's Africa - Will You Marry Me After So Many Years (2:15)
05. Omri Ziegele, Where's Africa - Space (5:38)
06. Omri Ziegele, Where's Africa - Yesterday's Tomorrows (5:36)
07. Omri Ziegele, Where's Africa - The Milkman Always Paid My Rent (4:29)
08. Omri Ziegele, Where's Africa - Camel, Where's My Land (13:37)
09. Omri Ziegele, Where's Africa - Ithi Gqi (3:46)