Kutiman - Wachaga '2020

Tracks list

People have been living around the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro for millennia.
One day in 2014 another jeep pulled up, in a rural neighbourhood where many
people from the Wachaga nation live, work and play. This jeep contained Ophir
‘Kutiman’ Kutiel, the producer, multi-instrumentalist and filmmaker
who is get-stopped-in-the-supermarket famous in his home country despite being
terminally shy of the spotlight.

Kutiman carried microphones, video recording equipment and a request for
creative collaboration to Tanzania – and he left Wachaga with a set of
recordings. Some of these were of everyday sounds and some contained special
sounds: school children from the city of Arusha playing drums or the dancers who
wore bells to add a percussive element to the movement, like the metal plate in
a tap dancer’s shoe.

This fourth studio album is a combination of the material he collected on his
2014 trip with recordings made with saxophonist Shlomi Alon, trumpeter Sefi
Zisling and trombonist Yair Slutzki, alongside his own playing and studio
wizardry. He was listening to a lot of spiritual jazz during the recording, and
in a departure from his usual cut and paste style, played on top of the
recordings.

It’s a creative push that has paid off: Horns and synth melodies spiral
across borrowed rhythm patterns and chants which provide the bedrock around
which Kutiman builds his own musical dwelling, creating new pathways of jazz,
psychedelia and circular meditative zone-outs. 

Tracklist: 
01. Kutiman - Tanzania
02. Kutiman - Awake in the Rain
03. Kutiman - Maasai
04. Kutiman - Lost in the Bush
05. Kutiman - Fireflys Before Tomorrow
06. Kutiman - A Giant Snail
07. Kutiman - Rainbow Kilimanjaro
08. Kutiman - Copasavana
09. Kutiman - Ngorongoro

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