Friday February 11th / 9pm, Konzeptlos@kaschemme presents:
ONOM AGEMO & THE DISCO JUMPERS Live (Agogo, Germany)
Afterparty AKIWAWA with DJ Pun & Rainer
Kaschemme Bar/Club / Lehenmattstrasse 353, Basel, Switzerland
The Berlin based contemporary Afrofunk Quintett soaked up a lot of
african traditional and modern music and created it´s unique sound while
combining those elements with their own musical roots, ads psychedelic
synthisounds and freejazzelements to mostly minimalistic grooves and
brings a hypnotic music in the clubs.
The band:
Johannes Schleiermacher – ts
Jörg Hochapfel – synth
Kalle Zeier – gui
Kalle Enkelmann – bass
Bernd Oezsevim – dr
Album info:
The group has developed a unique groove and style of playing,
constructing a collection of eight songs, that throws together tight and
funky influences from Marocco and Ethiopia with crunchy analogue
synths, spacey organs and effects, and fluid sax and flute lines for a
sound that’s all their own.
The LP is a collection of compositions by travelling sax man Johannes
Schleiermacher, inspired by his journeys through the world. The band
even travelled to Morocco for playing and recording with a quartet of
percussionists/ singers in the Issawa tradition, a Sufi Trance
Brotherhood in central Morocco.
Onom Agemo and the Disco Jumpers have been playing together for
years, and it shows. Taking Schleiermacher’s compositions, the group
rehearse the songs, play them live to finalize arrangements and get
feedback from friends, before recording the tracks to different 4-track
tape machines, mostly at drummer Bernd Oezsevim’s rehearsal space. Take
the track “Cool Runnings” for example: locked in the groove, the
intertwined sax and synth melody moves up and down the Anichihoye scale.
Not to be confused with the comedy of the same title, the track is
named after a bar in Berlin-Friedrichshain, where friends of the band
put on their night Tropical Timewarp.
This interlocking of groove and melody is a signature element, and
also inspired the title of the album. “Cranes and Carpets” alludes to
changing patterns, and how the parts of a wider whole can work together
in synchronicity. Combine an almost telepathic group intuition with the
fact that Schleiermacher also engineered and produced the record, and
the pieces start to add up to why the Disco Jumpers sound like they do.
It’s an authentic mix of North African rhythms and modes, live jazz
musicianship and analogue synths that’s reminiscent of electronic
African pioneers like William Onyeabor and Manu Dibango as much as
modern ensembles like The Heliocentrics. While the album sounds like it
could have been discovered on a dusty old tape down a Marrakesh
marketplace, it has a modern twist in the neat craftsmanship and tight
arrangements that ensures a blend of styles that couldn’t be anyone
else.
Further information & sounds: http://www.agogo-records.com/artists/onom-agemo-disco-jumpers-2/
http://www.konzeptlos.org/
http://akiwawa.com/
FB-event: https://www.facebook.com/events/247374089030035/
ONOM AGEMO & THE DISCO JUMPERS Live (Agogo, Germany)
Afterparty AKIWAWA with DJ Pun & Rainer
Kaschemme Bar/Club / Lehenmattstrasse 353, Basel, Switzerland
The Berlin based contemporary Afrofunk Quintett soaked up a lot of
african traditional and modern music and created it´s unique sound while
combining those elements with their own musical roots, ads psychedelic
synthisounds and freejazzelements to mostly minimalistic grooves and
brings a hypnotic music in the clubs.
The band:
Johannes Schleiermacher – ts
Jörg Hochapfel – synth
Kalle Zeier – gui
Kalle Enkelmann – bass
Bernd Oezsevim – dr
Album info:
The group has developed a unique groove and style of playing,
constructing a collection of eight songs, that throws together tight and
funky influences from Marocco and Ethiopia with crunchy analogue
synths, spacey organs and effects, and fluid sax and flute lines for a
sound that’s all their own.
The LP is a collection of compositions by travelling sax man Johannes
Schleiermacher, inspired by his journeys through the world. The band
even travelled to Morocco for playing and recording with a quartet of
percussionists/ singers in the Issawa tradition, a Sufi Trance
Brotherhood in central Morocco.
Onom Agemo and the Disco Jumpers have been playing together for
years, and it shows. Taking Schleiermacher’s compositions, the group
rehearse the songs, play them live to finalize arrangements and get
feedback from friends, before recording the tracks to different 4-track
tape machines, mostly at drummer Bernd Oezsevim’s rehearsal space. Take
the track “Cool Runnings” for example: locked in the groove, the
intertwined sax and synth melody moves up and down the Anichihoye scale.
Not to be confused with the comedy of the same title, the track is
named after a bar in Berlin-Friedrichshain, where friends of the band
put on their night Tropical Timewarp.
This interlocking of groove and melody is a signature element, and
also inspired the title of the album. “Cranes and Carpets” alludes to
changing patterns, and how the parts of a wider whole can work together
in synchronicity. Combine an almost telepathic group intuition with the
fact that Schleiermacher also engineered and produced the record, and
the pieces start to add up to why the Disco Jumpers sound like they do.
It’s an authentic mix of North African rhythms and modes, live jazz
musicianship and analogue synths that’s reminiscent of electronic
African pioneers like William Onyeabor and Manu Dibango as much as
modern ensembles like The Heliocentrics. While the album sounds like it
could have been discovered on a dusty old tape down a Marrakesh
marketplace, it has a modern twist in the neat craftsmanship and tight
arrangements that ensures a blend of styles that couldn’t be anyone
else.
Further information & sounds: http://www.agogo-records.com/artists/onom-agemo-disco-jumpers-2/
http://www.konzeptlos.org/
http://akiwawa.com/
FB-event: https://www.facebook.com/events/247374089030035/
