We Need To Repeat by Ingrid Lukas

Ingrid Lukas

We Need To Repeat

Price: € 14.95
Format: CD
Label: Ronin Rhythm Records
UPC: 7640105944804
Catnr: RON 008
Release date: 08 March 2019
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Label
Ronin Rhythm Records

UPC
7640105944804

Catalogue number
RON 008

Release date
08 March 2019

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About the album

“How are you?” asks Ingrid Lukas in the first song on her debut CD “We Need To Repeat”.
The Question is asked with poetical urgency, aiming at the profound. Songwriter and pianist Ingrid Lukas was born in Estonia and emigrated to Switzerland as a ten-year-old-child. She mainly sings in English and Estonian and muses in her songs about timeless topics, such as everyday struggles of life, home, the search for clarity, but she also evokes dancing spirits. Her music is rooted in the Nordic acoustic-sound tradition and seeks to reach a blend of ritual folksong elements with pop and minimal jazz. Both in arrangement and composition, the songs live up to Lukas’ creed asking "How little is enough?” which also reflects in the members of band: the piano and vocals are joined by a second voice (Corina Schranz), bass clarinet/tenor sax (Gregor Frei) and a drum set (Dominik Burkhalter) which is used in a percussive way.

The name of the CD is their creed: by focusing on repetition Ingrid Lukas and her band intend to focus on the simple, the subtle, and the unspoilt beauty of the things, words and sounds. This they do not without a pinch of irony and thus witty lyrics meet catchy rhythms to which even the detached white angel might once in a while secretly engage in dance:
'We need to repeat, cause it takes time...`till your heart shows...`till your body knows...`till you feel the beat...'

Artist(s)

Ingrid Lukas (vocals)

After the successful folk-pop debut 'We Need To Repeat' (RRR), the major release 'Silver Secrets' (Universal 2011) and the indie-pop album 'Demimonde' (RRR 2015), Ingrid Lukas presents now with her band the album 'Elumeloodia'. She addresses her personal life melody, which is nourished by her experiences and her change in the creative phase between 2017 and 2021, which was decisively aimed at inner development. Ingrid thus also invites the listeners to explore their own life melody and identity. The ten songs join a female-voice-space with fluid beats and cleverly combine analogue and electronic sounds, patterns and lines. The music thus acquires a tender and at the same time indomitable female power. Since the beginning of her career, the Zurich-based Estonian-Swiss singer,...

After the successful folk-pop debut "We Need To Repeat" (RRR), the major release "Silver Secrets" (Universal 2011) and the indie-pop album "Demimonde" (RRR 2015), Ingrid Lukas presents now with her band the album "Elumeloodia". She addresses her personal life melody, which is nourished by her experiences and her change in the creative phase between 2017 and 2021, which was decisively aimed at inner development. Ingrid thus also invites the listeners to explore their own life melody and identity. The ten songs join a female-voice-space with fluid beats and cleverly combine analogue and electronic sounds, patterns and lines. The music thus acquires a tender and at the same time indomitable female power.
Since the beginning of her career, the Zurich-based Estonian-Swiss singer, pianist and composer has been creating her own sound, oscillating between jazz, folk and pop. A mixture of tradition and modernity, combined with lyrics addressing our attitude towards life. Her individual view opens up universal themes. In Lukas's musically multicolored cosmos everything is connected to everything else: her Nordic roots, given shape in Estonian folk songs, meet up with modern song forms and beat cultures merging into a spherical ambient-indie-pop. Ingrid consistently continues to develop her music; no album sounds like the other, but together they show a dramaturgical and emotional logic.

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Dominik Burkhalter (drums)

Dominik Burkhalter: drum kit. Born 1975 in Zürich, Switzerland. Studies by Pierre Favre, Norbert Pfammatter, Julio Barreto. Bands: Asphalt Jungle, DOM, Vault, Christy Doran's New Bag, Domenico Ferrari, Burhan Oecal, Reto Suhner, Emel, Leo Tardin, Mike Ladd.

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Corina Schranz (vocals)

Corina Schranz: vocals. Born1987 in Luzern, Switzerland. Studies by Peter Brechbühler, Valérie Guillorit. Bands: stage career with classical Repertoire, in other Formations other Stiles and solo with accordion. Discography: „We Need to Repeat“ Ingrid Lukas (Ronin Rhythm Records, 2009)

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Gregor Frei (saxophone)

Gregor Frei: sax, bass clarinet. Born 1983 in Basel, Switzerland. Studies by Nat Su, John Voirol, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Chris Cheek, Kris Bauman, Loren Stillman. Bands: Ingrid Lukas, Asmin Sextet, Istaman, Origami Quartet. Discography: „Presenting Paintbox“ Paintbox, 2002; „Live At Jazzkantine“ East West Express, 2006; „Hoover“ Istaman, (Texit Music, 2007);„Land of Refuge“ Asmin Sextet (Altrisuoni, 2009); „My Bow, My Arrow, My Target“ Marygold (Little Jig, 2009)

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