ROOT AREA - The RAY Session

by Christoph Grab

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1.	You Don't Know Me 06:04	buy track
2.	Unchain My Heart 03:30	buy track
3.	Hallelujah I Love Her So 04:07	buy track
4.	Hit The Road Jack 03:37	buy track
5.	Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? 05:06	buy track
6.	I Got a Woman 05:39	buy track
7.	One For Ray 04:43	buy track
8.	Baby It's Cold Outside 04:42	buy track
9.	Georgia On My Mind 05:08	buy track

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ROOT AREA are:
Christoph Grab ts/ss, Nicole Johänntgen as/ss,
Marcel Thomi hammond, Elmar Frey drums

www.christophgrab.com/de/bands/root-area

Their very latest program "RAY" is a bow to the "high priest of soul", to Ray Charles. Without taking away the essence of his music, ROOT AREA has turned Ray Charles' classics into completely original instrumental pieces that sound as if they had never existed any other way. And above all, they retain that "scream", that bluesy quality that is the urgency of Ray Charles' music. The energy and ferocity, the groove and the fat arrangements of two saxophones and Hammond remain ROOT AREA's trademark in their latest program.

„Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you — a part that's so true, so real, people think it must have happened to you. … It's like electricity — we don't really know what it is, do we? But it's a force that can light a room.
Soul is like electricity, like a spirit, a drive, a power.“
Ray Charles

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released July 8, 2022

recorded juli 6 2021 in the afternoon, live at ZOO studio, Bern/Switzerland,
recorded and mixed by Wolfgang Zwiauer and Felix Wolf, produced by Tom Gsteiger, released on LAMENTO Rec, cover art by Nicolas Hadorn.

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Christoph Grab Zurich, Switzerland

christoph grab is a saxophonist and composer living in zurich/switzerland

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