AMI WARNING - WELLEN TOUR 2027

AMI WARNING - "WAVES"

Fingers dance rhythmically on bass strings, an auspicious stomp, accompanied by Ami Warning's calmly sonorous, unmistakably warm voice: "We come spontaneously, didn't write ourselves". The first line of the Munich native's new album is a metaphor for her seemingly weightless, minimalist soul; her sensitivity, her mobilizing, sun-drenched flow; her fundamentally positive, courageous DIY and doer attitude. "Waves" - the title of Ami's new LP - breathes freedom, coziness and thoughtfulness. In thirteen acts, it describes a palpable longing for the perfect moment. And it is about the cycle of life, about being a child and growing old, about imprinting and continuities. It is also about deep interpersonal connections and coming home; about doors that open and doors that close; about "waves" that come and go - that need to be parried and embraced, even when they threaten to overwhelm you.

"Waves" cannot be understood in its entirety without the extreme months in Ami Warning's life, during which the majority of the album songs were written. She became pregnant for the first time at the beginning of 2025 and was still on stage with her father - the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Wally Warning - that summer. A few days after their last show together and just as Ami's belly was getting bigger and bigger, her father's life was shattered by a serious cancer diagnosis. Wally Warning died on September 19, 2025, missing his granddaughter by just under two months - "in real life, there often doesn't seem to be a happy ending". It is hardly surprising that relaxed enthusiasm and thoughtful melancholy, "picture-book weather" and "hospital beds" lie close together on "Wellen". Between sensual guitar chords and gentle choirs, this album exudes a melancholy that always feels feather-light and warm, but varies in its thrust.

The thematic superstructure of the record seems just as comprehensible - this intense examination of blossoming and withering life, of spiritual home, of inner values; also of the moment when your own child - while you still have the taste of grandma's apple pie in your mouth - suddenly starts to run. "Wellen" reflects - in its sound, in its lyrics, even in its genesis - the mentality characterized by joie de vivre, spontaneity, freedom from fear, wanderlust, generosity, confidence and improvisation that Ami's parents passed on to Ami. In fact, she experienced the first concert of her father Wally - this thoroughbred artist from Aruba who sparked her love for music at an early age and soon took her on tour in the family tour bus - while still in her mother's womb. Ami is now passing on the attitude of her parents to the next generation: when she recorded the song "Flugmodus" in a Munich studio, she had her daughter in tow - still in childbirth. Should she one day take a liking to making music, Ami will give her a helping hand, just as her father once did.

Ami has not lost her heart-driven, organic, thoroughly anti-mathematical way of making music and creating melodic arrangements with pop, reggae, indie and Latin flavors over the years. As always, she composed almost all the songs on "Wellen" herself at home on the guitar. The album is completely self-directed - and yet draws on Ami's creative network, which has expanded noticeably in recent years. She has involved the producers Bruckner, Novaa, Markus Sebastian Harbauer, Simon Frontzek and Rudi Maier in the "Wellen" process; the record also contains features with jolle and Carlo5 - at two central points in the tracklist. However, Ami performs the two deepest, most significant and final songs on the LP alone. In the matte, at times shattering title track "Wellen", she describes moments of saying goodbye to her father; then, in the embracing last track "Heim kommen", the final circle is completed - at the latest with the last line: "Alles gut, auch, wenn wir uns verändert ham'".