YAKOU TRIBE

The Berlin band "YAKOU TRIBE", which has been around for 25 years, released its fifth CD entitled "Out Of Sight" in spring 2019. The quartet, led by Cologne guitarist Norbert Scholly and alto saxophonist Jan von Klewitz, continues to follow the trail of the (American) road movie soundtrack, but the musicians have also expanded their itinerary to include both the urban America of the 1950s and South American climes. Klewitz and the new double and electric bassist Pepe Berns, who joined in 2017, contribute folkloristic, Brazilian-influenced and jazz-influenced songs and ballads, while Kögel's compositions and the accomplished drummer Rainer Winch pay homage to the progressive rock of the 70s.

Thomas Steinfeld wrote the article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on 25.04.2019: Jazz Mit roten Ohren Jazz in the spirit of the progressive rock of the seventies, only much looser and more virtuoso: the splendid new album "Out of Sight" by the Berlin quartet "Yakou Tribe". "The more you listen to the album "Out of Sight" (Traumton Records) by the Berlin quartet Yakou Tribe, the more you realize that these ten songs conceal a cheerful, confident game with the "listening communities" of times long past. Each of them can play anything, across genres and eras.

The Yakou Tribe seems fresh and new, and yet the band is still one hundred percent committed to the music that has always characterized them. The Cologne guitarist Norbert Scholly, von Klewitz and Co. are characterized by the fact that they find a new agreement between continuity and change for every track. They no longer need international comparisons, but define their own brand essence: short, accessible jazz songs between subtle melancholy and unobtrusive cheerfulness that unfold their own images. Four musicians who don't play together because they are at each other's mercy, but because they want nothing else.

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