WEB WEB x MAX HERRE - Meskel Flowers feat. Mulatu Astatke (Alternate Version) | Official Video

The fourth single Meskel Flowers (feat. Mulatu Astatke) from the album “WEB MAX” by WEB WEB and MAX HERRE.
buy/support here: CompostRecords.lnk.to/WEBWEBx...
Song title: Meskel Flowers (feat. Mulatu Astatke)
Release: OUT NOW
Cat.-No.: CPT 585-5
Format: Digital Single
Animation video: Nicolai Kovács | WWW.NICOLAIKOVACS.COM
Illustration: Jan Steins | www.st-1.de/ / jansteins.de/
…taken from the album “WEB MAX” (OUT NOW)
Band members:
Max Herre (p, rhodes, synth, perc)
Tony Lakatos (ts, sax)
Roberto Di Gioia (p, rhodes, synth, perc)
Christian von Kaphengst (b)
Peter Gall (dr)
Mulatu Astatke (vibes)
Info:
The yellow „Meskel Flower“, which grows only in Ethiopia, is the symbol of transition and new beginnings. Every year on September 27th, at the end of the rainy season, Ethiopians celebrate the return of light and the awakening of nature with the Meskel Festival.
Max met Mulatu Astatke - The Godfather of Ethio Jazz - in early 2015, after one of his concerts in Berlin. Ben Abarbanel-Wolff, who also plays on WEB MAX, had made the contact. The following day they met in the Tritonus Studio in Berlin for a session, where the original version of "Meskel Flowers" was created. Malatu‘s pentatonic vibraphone playing meets Christian von Kaphengst's mantric Fender Jazz Bass-line.
With his vibraphone, Astatke conjures up the pentatonic scale emblematic of Ethio-jazz, which itself was the result of a cultural exchange - in the early 60s, Astatke was the first African to study at the prestigious Berklee College in Boston, and he brought jazz back to his homeland in the early 70s.
In the winter of 2014, German rapper/producer Max Herre and Italian-German pianist Roberto Di Gioia played a tremendous show together. The two had been guest musicians at a few gigs for Gregory Porter, who in turn kindly accepted their invitation to perform at Herre’s MTV Unplugged session (produced by Herre alongside Di Gioia and Samon Kawamura as production team KAHEDI). Porter’s approach to the jazz quartet inspired Max to reflect how a rap artist could work in a more freely-flowingmusical environment. Di Gioia’s inspiration was a bit more straightforward: in the 80s, Di Gioia had played with jazz legends like Woody Shaw, Johnny Griffin, and James Moody, but he’d largely left the jazz stages of his early years behind - just one random jam session with Porter’s musicians during soundcheck relit his passion immensely. A short time later, Herre called Di Gioia saying “Let’s get a spiritual jazz session going.” Now, six years later, the album WEB MAX is the amazing result from the spur of that moment. It is a wonderful homage to the cosmic open-mindedness of early 70s jazz, to the transcendent sublimity of spiritual sound.
LINKS:
Web Web
Facebook: / webwebmusic
Instagram: / webwebmusic
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4EmIr...
Bandcamp: webweb.bandcamp.com/
Max Herre
Facebook: / maxherre
Instagram: / maxherreofficial
Twitter: / maxherremusik
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/7IpWQ...
Compost Records
linkin.bio/compostrecords
compost-rec.com/

[@Aaron_Sievers]

Freut mich für Max, dass er mit seinem Idol Mulatu Astatke einen Jazz-Song machen konnte!

[@chrisscheler643]

Erinnert mich ans alte Ägypten

[@bratanos-locos-fokus8373]

Max eins will ich dir sagen von dir muss wieder mehr kommen. Die letzten tage konnt ich so viel inspiration aus deiner musik schöpfen das mir wieder mal klar wurde was eine bereicherung deine kunst doch ist. Also los mein freund bald bisse alt und der weg zum studio wird dann auch nicht mehr so leicht ❤️😆 ich weiß das dass noch nicht alles war

[@einfachnur6596]

💖

[@Richard-mt1ev]

Fand seinen Rap ansprechender, aber das ist auch sehr schon und für ihn wahrscheinlich sehr erfüllend. :)

[@Yewell81]

in da house*)

[@nexenexen]

Sehr anders schön.

[@ChristianEnricoSchempp]