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.

Cover art and graphic design: Jonas Schoder
Photo: Heinz Unger
Liner notes: Bert Noglik

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.