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Bänz Oester and the Rainmakers

Sun Jul 2, 15:00 - Sun Jul 2, 18:30

Guga S'thebe

ABOUT

The Swiss-South African band The Rainmakers, formed around the interna-tionally acclaimed bassist Bänz Oester, recorded their debut album at Jazz Club Bird’s Eye in Basel (CH) in 2012. On their second live album, they fol-low in the footsteps of Coltrane. Their use of the legendary Jacques Brel chanson „Amsterdam“, and the evergreen Swiss hit „Dr Schacher Seppli“, is breathtaking. The five remaining numbers are only slightly less spectacu-lar. The Rainmakers are therefore undoubtedly a typical live band, and that is why it makes sense that they did not lock themselves up in a studio to rec-ord their second CD – a lion in the wild is much more majestic than one in the zoo. This splendid band succeeds in quasi squaring the circle, namely the sym-biosis of ecstatic soberness and feel-good happiness. No wonder that audi-ences in Willisau cheered wildly in response (even some critics discreetly sung their praises). That this memorable concert recording now exists un-der the title „Ukuzinikela“, is a genuine godsend. The name of the nostalgic pop piece with which the concert fades out, might be understood as a kind of promise: “ Nach em Räge schint Sunne » (After the rain, the sun will shine). Or put differently, these rainmakers conjure up the sun in our hearts and souls – that they refrain from top-heavy concepts, is a matter of hon-

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Bänz Oester and the Rainmakers
Guga S'thebe
Washington St, Langa, Cape Town, 7455
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