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01. Shake Stew - I Can Feel The Heat Closing In
02. Shake Stew - You Struggle You Strive
03. Shake Stew - You Let Go You Fly
04. Shake Stew - Keep Walkin
05. Shake Stew - No More Silence - Part I
06. Shake Stew - No More Silence - Part II
07. Shake Stew - So He Spoke
08. Shake Stew - Grilling Crickets in a Straw Hut - Part I
09. Shake Stew - Grilling Crickets in a Straw Hut - Part II
ARTIST
TITLE
Gris Gris
FORMAT
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
TRAUMTON 4678LP TRAUMTON 4678LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/25/2022

Double LP version. 180 gram vinyl. 2019 release. After The Golden Fang (2017) and Rise And Rise Again (2018), Shake Stew release their third studio album, Gris Gris. Austrian band Shake Stew has become something of a phenomenon. With their premiere at Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2016 and their following debut The Golden Fang, they seemingly exploded into the scene out of nowhere. Since then their high energy mixture of hypnotic Afrobeat and jazz grooves has made them enormously successful not only on home turf but across Europe. Led by rising star bassist Lukas Kranzelbinder they quickly became one of the hottest live acts on the circuit, while the impact of their second album Rise And Rise Again (featuring Shabaka Hutchings) enabled them to spread their unique sound further afield, including an extensive tour of Canada, Mexico, Morocco, and standout shows at prestigious festivals like Montreal, Rochester, and North Sea Jazz Festival. The band has also attracted the attention of Germany's leading newspaper Die Zeit who, in an unusual move, sent one of its writers to spend five days with them to cover the formations summer residence at Jazzclub Unterfahrt; the resulting feature was euphoric in its praise. Despite being on the scene for only a short time, German Radio NDR already called them a "cult band" and everyone who could witness the septet's two-day residency at Viennese Jazz Club Porgy & Bess earlier this year might understand why: both evenings sold out, a total of nearly 900 listeners, who crowded into the club to hear the latest sounds of a band whose journey has only just started. Not content to do anything by halves (their first single was 19 minutes long), Gris Gris is a double album of what they do best: a high-octane mix of fiery jazz and trance-like groove injections combined with mysterious soundscapes and spiritual free jazz eruptions -- or as one Austrian newspaper described them "an intergalactic road movie for the ears!"