Andreas Tschopp

What If We Align Our Breath LP

Kit Records

KR89

Kit Records

34
Format: 12inch VinylRelease: 20.03.2026
pre-order now 20.03.2026

expected to be published on 20.03.2026

What If We Align Our Breath LP
TRACKLIST
  • 01:     The Lake Will Give You Everything You Need
  • 02:     Sounding The Voice (Feat. Koleka Putuma)
  • 03:     The Poetry Of The In-Between
  • 04:     Iqhude: A Tale Of Horns And Bones
  • 05:     I Am Because You Are
  • 06:     Portals
  • 07:     A Basic Guide To String Theory (Feat. Shane Cooper)
  • 08:     Everything Is Connected To Everything (Feat. Ben Lamar Gay &Amp; Gontse Makhene)
  • 09:     We Oscillate, We Modulate
  • 10:     Mothers

Pioneering Swiss trombonist and composer Andreas Tschopp marries contemporary jazz with South African horns and homemade ocarinas, creating a record quite unlike anything you've heard before. "What if We Align Our Breath" disregards the curvature of borders, genre, and time itself - tugging a thread through the history of wind instrumentation with ghostly agility.

At the heart of the record lie spiralling, bonelike kudu (antelope) horns - instruments that have lent their stirring calls to indigenous South African rituals and signalling systems for millennia. These horns are clustered, harmonised and stretched beyond their godly usage by Tschopp - his extended techniques coaxing an array of melancholy, playful voices to canter through the album.

Flourishes of trombone, alpine flutes and a stellar supporting cast on double bass (Shane Cooper), cornet (Ben LaMar Gay), udu drums (Gontse Makhene) and spoken word (Koleka Putuma) bring groove, countermelody and a sense of earthy introspection to the proceedings. This is inconceivable music: a sighing tapestry of brass, clay and bone that hints at some preconscious connectedness, tracing figures that rejoice, exhale and embrace outside of time.

Recommended if you like Francis Bebey, quantum physics, peat bogs.

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Andreas Tschopp, What If We Align Our Breath LP KR89, 2026-03-20 00:00:00, 5050580869936.
12inch Vinyl 0.20 kg.
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