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348: OM. URS LEIMGRUBER – CHRISTY DORAN – BOBBY BURRY – FREDY STUDER. It's About Time

Intakt Recording #348/ 2020


Christoph Irniger: Tenor Saxophone
Raffaele Bossard: Bass
Ziv Ravitz: Drums
loren Stillman: Alto Saxophone
Nils Wogram: Trombone

Recorded by Jean- Marc Foussat, assisted by Thomas Gabriel at Gabriel Recording, Stalden, Switzerland, February 4 –7, 2020.

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Original price
CHF 30.00
CHF 12.00 - CHF 30.00
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Format: Compact Disc
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The band is cult. This band wrote history from 1972 to 1982 combining the energy of rock music with the power of free improvisation. With enormous vitality they bring together the experiences of a young generation electrified by Jimi Hendrix, fascinated by John Coltrane and inspired by free jazz. OM brought rock music into spontaneous musical processes with uncertain endings.
After a long break from touring, the band returned in 2008 with a brilliant concert at the Willisau Jazz Festival, with highly explosive freely improvised music ("Willisau". Intakt CD 170).
Now the journey goes on as OM reinvents itself. At small live concerts in Lucerne the band creates and forges new concepts and themes. The new album “It's about Time" presents pieces that were developed from concepts, improvi- sations and compositions by the four musicians. Everything is there: the energy, the power, the radicality, the freedom, the form. Delivered with the passion, the skill and the experience of an entire lifetime of the four musicians. "ElectroAcoustiCore" is what the band calls their sound.

Album Credits

Cover art and graphic design: Jonas Schoder
Liner Notes: Michael Scheiner
Photo: Ralph Kühne

Music by Leimgruber, Doran, Burri and Studer (SUISA). Recorded by Jean- Marc Foussat, assisted by Thomas Gabriel at Gabriel Recording, Stalden, Switzerland, February 4 –7, 2020.
Recording coproduced by Radio SRF 2 Kultur. Mixed and edited by Moritz Wetter, assisted by OM at Hard Studios, Winterthur, Switzerland, April 1, 2, 6, 2020. Mastered by Michael Brändli, assisted by OM at Hard Studios, April 6, 2020. Produced by OM and Intakt Records.