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BOWW: Tribal Poetry: The Tree

Artist Gregor Hilbe
Title BOWW: Tribal Poetry: The Tree
Release Date Friday, February 6, 2009
Genre World > Worldbeat
Copyright © rhythming
Country SWITZERLAND

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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.”

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20.02.2009 Minneapolis, USA
21.02.2009 Madison, USA
22.02.2009 Chicago, USA
23.02.2009 Cincinatti, USA
24.02.2009 Cleveland, USA
24.02.2009 Woodstock, USA
25.02.2009 Woodstock, USA
26.02.2009 Boston, USA
27.02.2009 New York City, USA
28.02.2009 Washington DC, USA
28.02.2009 Philadelphia, USA
01.03.2009 Philadelphia, USA
21.03.2009 Saarbrücken, Germany
09.02.2009 Bellingham, WA, USA
10.02.2009 Seattle, USA
11.02.2009 Portland, Oregon, USA
13.02.2009 San Francisco, USA
14.02.2009 Santa Cruz, USA
15.02.2009 Santa Barbara, USA
16.02.2009 Costa Mesa, USA
17.02.2009 Los Angeles, KCRW
17.02.2009 Los Angeles, Troubadour
19.02.2009 Minneapolis, USA

On Air

Radio Karussell (AUSTRIA) http://www.radio-karussell.com/
    The Bow (BOWW gregor hilbe feat. davy/rennert/iannaccone/böhm/sky189)
    TREE: The Branch (BOWW gregor hilbe feat. davy/rennert/iannaccone/böhm/sky189)
    Tribal Poets (BOWW gregor hilbe feat. davy/rennert/iannaccone/böhm/sky189)