Yakou Tribe - Out of Sight (2019)

Where jazz stops for other bands, he starts for Yakou Tribe. The quartet from Berlin has never had problems breaking conventions. Also regarding his release plan. Since "Rituals", the third production of Yakou Tribe, no less than six years have gone into the country. For the band a "phase of reflection", as guitarist Kai Brückner explains. Together with saxophonist Jan von Klewitz, bassist Johannes Gunkel and drummer Rainer Winch, he just took a little more time. "So we simply had more time to focus on certain aspects of our music." You can hear that. With their lifelike cross between contagious jazz rock, sensual sound painting and almost song-like compositions, they have always been very pointed and straight. But never before have the four musicians sounded so symbiotic, dense and collectively interwoven in their individual intentions as on "100% Results". From the first to the last tone a positive basic mood spreads, which also does not want to ebb when the music has long since died away.

"... The Yakou Tribe is fresh and new, yet the band is one hundred percent true to the music that has always been theirs. Brückner, von Klewitz and Co. are characterized by the fact that they find a new agreement between continuity and change for each track. They no longer need international comparisons, but define their own brand core: short, accessible jazz songs, between discreet melancholy and unobtrusive cheerfulness, unfolding their own images. Four musicians who do not play with each other because they are at the mercy of each other, but because they do not want anything else. This power, passion and fun inevitably transmits to the listener. Yakou Tribe is an alliance of fabulous singer / songwriters who replace their lyrics with individual timbres. Above all, they can let go. If a band that has been together for more than ten years records their fourth album with the same passion and determination as if it were the first record, then it did everything, but really everything right. "(Wolf Kampmann)