Review: L'Orage - Water Tower (L'Orage Records)

L'Orage's third album 'Water Tower' has got to be their best yet as the Swiss "jazz groove pholyryghmix beat" exponents have refined and redefined themselves.

The seven tracks blend Alpine beach Balearic jazz dub and ballads into a OST to nature and all surrounds us in the water tower of life. 

A quartet led by saxophonist Ganesh Geymeier and Robin Girod (guitar) with Nelson Schaer (drums) and Fabien Iannone (bass) have sparingly used synths/electronics and other percussion to that gives the album a bigger sound whilst a track like 'Mohan' goes all world/minimal and 'Mountain Light' gets the twang sorted.

Very much in Swizz jazz heritage of Lukas Traxel's 'One-Eyed Daruma (see review HERE) and J&F Quintet's 'Contrast' (see review HERE) and it would be great to see the band live.

Live Dates

September 28  : Le Singe, Bienne 

October 09: Café de la Plage, Geneva

October 10 : Waxy Bar, Zurich

October 11 : Werft Proberaume, Lucerne

October 12: La Spirale, Fribourg

October 13: Le Bout du Monde, Vevey

November 02: L’Ecurie, Genève

January 16 : Winter Jazz Festival, Bern 

March 22 : KVO, Neuchâtel

April 09 : Bird’s Eye, Basel

Mai 03: Stanser Musictage, Stans TBC

Artist: L'Orage

Title: Water Tower

Release date: 4th October, 2024

Label : L'Orage Records

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Format: Limited LP, Digital / Bandcamp