OUM SHATT live @ Ilses Erika, support: TWINS IN COLOUR

Admission 21:30 / start 22:30

VVK via Tixforgigs: https://www.tixforgigs.com/Event/51979

Support: TWINS IN COLOUR

Listen to the new single "PLAY!":

https://open.spotify.com/.../album/4xznA2y2w7Tot9LY9vTTbr...

New video:

https://youtu.be/H3-a0SeUTKU?si=8GZAMozqePEFH0wv

Six years ago, Oum Shatt released a critically acclaimed debut album. This led to awards for Song of the Year from Berlin Radio Eins ("Gold To Straw") and TAZ Popblog ("Power To The Women Of The Morning Shift") as well as a BBC feature and appearances at SXSW, Transmusicales in France and Electric Picnic in Ireland.

Now the Berlin band - consisting of singer and songwriter Jonas Poppe, drummer Chris Imler, guitarist Richard Murphy and Rémi Letournelle on bass and synthesizer - is back with a second album that even surpasses their debut. There, Oum Shatt combined American surfing with Greek rembetika music, no wave and oriental influences, here they expand their sound even further:

Although you can recognize the classic Oum Shatt sound through the Phrygian scale in "Over the World and Out", there are also such contrasting songs as the irradiated singer/songwriter chanson "My Hostess (Madame Le Soleil Levant)", the enraptured and ecstatic "Play!", the edgy drum-dominated "Off to St. Pete" or the hypnotically danceable "Love the way she stands".

However, this does not mean musical rambling and getting lost in emptiness, but is purified and brought to the point by the band. Oum Shatt never stop at a reference, but see it only as a starting point to build their own world.

The interlocking, circular single-note guitars, the mantra-like baritone brought to the fore by repetitive background choirs and the very individual, wild percussive aesthetic give the album a mystical, sometimes psychedelic sound.

Jonas Poppe's often ambiguous, sometimes sarcastic lyrics deal with the question of realizing ideals ("I would have quit my job if I ever had one") or the failure to do so, but also with love and the housing market, politics, artistic freedom and power structures. A recurring motif is a fictitious "intermediate world" in which - triggered by a feedback loop between the outer and inner worlds of the lyrical self - a mystical hyperreality emerges:
"...the bliss of imponderability."

The result is a record that is completely original due to its many obscure influences.

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