Wabjie | Lull | February 25, 2022

Release: 25th Feb 2022

Mixing haunting vocals and synths with acoustic piano and drums, the debut album from Swiss group Wabjie intertwines jazz with touches of genre-bending artists like Radiohead, Björk, Erykah Badu and Fiona Apple.

By definition, Wabjie is the name given to those herbs or mosses that spring up between paving stones, through wall cracks and in previously undiscovered gaps.

In much the same way, the trio’s music twists and turns its way along, searching for the glimpses of sunshine in which to flower and bloom.

Founded by Swiss improvisers Soraya Berent and Michel Wintsch, then completed by drummer Samuel Jakubec in 2019, their album Lull (Feb 25th, 2022) bursts at the seams with original riffs, twists, turns and organic sounds.

With experience between the three musicians ranging from avant-garde and straight-ahead jazz to soul, rock and electro, Wabjie (pronounced “Wab-gee”) presents an organism that grows from its jazz roots and takes on a life of its own.

A colourful and groovy drum beat, a piano that doesn’t fear the blues, landscapes of synthesizers flirting with prog and a moving, dancing voice blend together to take flight, regardless of etiquette and genre.