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Op 2/10 komt het nu nog onbekende WOIMA COLLECTIVE zich voor het eerst voorstellen. De brass sectie van Poets Of Rhythm – en dus ook Whitefield Brothers – zijn de heren achter deze band. En dan weet je het plots wel: funk, jazz en de erfenis van Ethiojazz grootmeester Mulatu Astatke zijn de basisingrediënten van alweer een heerlijke ‘Straight No Seater’ cocktail. Aanbevolen door Kindred Spirits (en De Kreun). Bio via Kindred Spirits The Woima Collective was born from deep within the brass section of renowned German funk unit Poets Of Rhythm, as tenor sax player Johannes Schleiermacher became immersed in the rhythms and modes of the African music that the Poets love so much. Johannes got further into the African rhythms after some excursions to Morocco, where he picked up lots of old cassettes and soaked up the very natural musical environment out there. People siting out in the open jamming away was a far cry from his academic and classical training, and this Moroccan music seemed to fl ow from the heart. Johannes particularly like the feeing of celebration and healing at the Gnawan trance performances, where the dance and music was so interlinked. He also met Ethiopian jazz ambassador Mulatu Astatke, who taught him more about the diff erent musical modes. After that Johannes just knew he had to play with other people who also loved this music and shared the same spirit and ideas. After an initial period of writing he brought together a group of ten musicians, with a view to recording a single. Combining the fiery rhythm section, with keys, guitar, and a fi ve-man brass and woodwind combo, Johannes took the name for the group from a rhythm a Guinean percussionist friend taught him - Woima, the rhythm of the magician. Despite some of these musicians never having played together before, the studio sessions snowballed, and they ended up recording a couple of album’s worth of material. Some credit to this productivity should also go to the Lovelite facility in Berlin, the club/rehearsal space/studio where Jimi Tenor and the Afrobeat Academy also record - where the set-up makes it easy to rehearse ideas and then hit record. So after three days rehearsal and a pair of two-day sessions, the Woima Collective had laid down a heap of tracks - tight well-formed arrangements that make perfect starting points for their live versions. And just like that magician at a kids party, they’re ready to soundtrack some nice litle dances. Combining the tight funk of groups like The Heliocentrics and the Poets Of Rhythm, with gnarly abyssinian brass and classic Mulatu-esque organ licks, the twelve tracks on Tezeta breeze into Europe on the Siroccan winds. At times the band nods to dubby workouts like on the track ‘No Way But Still Walking’, at other times the brass section threaten to get free and atonal on the album closer Wilder Mann. Nevertheless Tezeta takes the cohesive pulse of North Africa, and fi ts it in a groove that will run and run for days.

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Le 2 octobre, l’encore très peu connu WOIMA COLLECTIVE livrera sa première représentation. La section de cuivres des Poets Of Rhythm – et donc des Whitefield Brothers – se cache derrière ce groupe. Et puis vous le savez : funk, jazz et l’héritage du maître de l’Ethio-jazz Mulatu Astatke sont les ingrédients de base du merveilleux cocktail ‘Straight No Seater’. Recommandé par Kindred Spirits (et De Kreun). Bio via Kindred Spirits The Woima Collective was born from deep within the brass section of renowned German funk unit Poets Of Rhythm, as tenor sax player Johannes Schleiermacher became immersed in the rhythms and modes of the African music that the Poets love so much. Johannes got further into the African rhythms after some excursions to Morocco, where he picked up lots of old cassettes and soaked up the very natural musical environment out there. People siting out in the open jamming away was a far cry from his academic and classical training, and this Moroccan music seemed to fl ow from the heart. Johannes particularly like the feeing of celebration and healing at the Gnawan trance performances, where the dance and music was so interlinked. He also met Ethiopian jazz ambassador Mulatu Astatke, who taught him more about the diff erent musical modes. After that Johannes just knew he had to play with other people who also loved this music and shared the same spirit and ideas. After an initial period of writing he brought together a group of ten musicians, with a view to recording a single. Combining the fiery rhythm section, with keys, guitar, and a fi ve-man brass and woodwind combo, Johannes took the name for the group from a rhythm a Guinean percussionist friend taught him - Woima, the rhythm of the magician. Despite some of these musicians never having played together before, the studio sessions snowballed, and they ended up recording a couple of album’s worth of material. Some credit to this productivity should also go to the Lovelite facility in Berlin, the club/rehearsal space/studio where Jimi Tenor and the Afrobeat Academy also record - where the set-up makes it easy to rehearse ideas and then hit record. So after three days rehearsal and a pair of two-day sessions, the Woima Collective had laid down a heap of tracks - tight well-formed arrangements that make perfect starting points for their live versions. And just like that magician at a kids party, they’re ready to soundtrack some nice litle dances. Combining the tight funk of groups like The Heliocentrics and the Poets Of Rhythm, with gnarly abyssinian brass and classic Mulatu-esque organ licks, the twelve tracks on Tezeta breeze into Europe on the Siroccan winds. At times the band nods to dubby workouts like on the track ‘No Way But Still Walking’, at other times the brass section threaten to get free and atonal on the album closer Wilder Mann. Nevertheless Tezeta takes the cohesive pulse of North Africa, and fi ts it in a groove that will run and run for days.