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muzycy:
Nora Benamara (vocals)
Lorenz Heigenhuber (double bass)
Olga Reznichenko (piano)
André van der Heide (drums)
Sylvain Barou (duduk on track.9)

Editor's Info
Music as a possibility to process things; this has become a matter of course for Nora Benamara. Anyone who delves into the pieces of her group's extraordinary album debut can discover a variety of facets, both lyrically and musically. Some go deep, but still retain a certain degree of lightness, of sensual, joyful expression. "My music was created out of emotion and intuition," the singer, composer and band leader emphasized. The wonderfully poetic texts in turn speak of a lot of reflection, sometimes almost philosophical thinking and daring—even dreaming. Her pieces speak of longing for a home, of utopian places, of doubts, of an intense connection to nature. They are the results of a personal inner "odyssey" as she wrote: "a search for deeper connections, a pursuit of the beautiful and the cathartic in the search for finding one’s place in the world."
The fact that she chose "Amnesia" as the title for the quartet's first album is due to the power of the song of the same name. "It represents the album." Nora Benamara speaks in this context of different energy waves that flow through her. Amnesia serves her "as a metaphor for forgotten, fallen asleep parts of myself." The music awakens these parts and restores the energy of connectedness, whether with love or with nature: important vital energy. She is totally absorbed in her music, in her songs, and all the more so on stage. She is in complete harmony with what she expresses there. "Something absolutely honest and authentic is expressed."
Nora Benamara is German-French national with a multicultural family background (her father is Algerian and her mother German); she lives in Leipzig as do the other members of her quartet. Pianist Olga Reznichenko and bassist Lorenz Heigenhuber also play together in the highly acclaimed trio Reznichenko, which recently released its second album. The singer has known the drummer André van der Heide the longest. The two met during their .......
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