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BOWW Tribal Poetry : The Tree is an
This record marks the first gathering of the BOWW tribe founded by Gregor Hilbe in the woods, connecting the rhythms of the trees with the poetry of their members' origins.
TREE is a 40 minute continuous wavelike piece, travelling from the legendary Ombù tree in the middle of Buenos Aires featuring Martin Iannaccone, one of Argentina's foremost alternative talents on Cello and Voice, to the South African wood, with improvising freestyle artist Evaron Orange/Sky189, coming to UK’s Sherwood Forest’s Major Oak with Kevin Davy, Jamaican-rooted UK trumpeter and vocalist. The instrumentation with natural head drums and the cello playing the basslines, gives a very acoustic, natural sound, taking the trip to central european forests Jurassic, Moravian and Black Forest with the music’s energy rising continuously to release in the end like a rhythmic wave.
Volker Böhm's realtime-soundshaping with his self-built electronic instruments, combining the source of the acoustic instruments and mixing them with white noise, gives the band a unique dynamic feel and Uli Rennert, Frankfurt born Key- and Improvisation-Wizard blends in with inventive lines on top of the flow.
The 40 minute TREE piece has been played nonstop, with no additional recording or programming.
Gregor Nikolai Hilbe and Martin Iannaccone have already received appraisals in press reviews from their former
project “Tangocrash” that has received Germany’s Worldmusic Price Ruth in 2005 and that was largely
supported by doyen Joe Zawinul:
The Guardian (London): “excellent; clever integration of acoustic and electronic sounds”
The Guardian (London): "...sensual album, one of 2008’s best." *****
Frankfurter Allgemeine FAZ: “programmierte Rhythmen, mit denen der ebenso agile wie sensible Schlagzeuger
Gregor Hilbe zuweilen um die Wette spielt. Stil- und zielsicher zerklüftete, in besten Momenten komplex
verdichtete Metren des Drum & Bass.” “fast unbegrenzte Klangfantasie”
Frankfurter Presse: “cool existentialists”
Rolling Stone (Germany): “bei aller Experimentierfreude dem Geist (...) in erfrischend aggressiver Liebe
verpflichtet.”